Jan Nowak (1 July 1930 – 5 June 2010) was a Polish

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

and

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Biography

Nowak was born on 1 July 1930 in Siemianowice Śląskie. He studied at

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Pol ...

in Kraków and at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the years 1951–1957. He obtained his diploma in the Graphic Arts studio of Professor Aleksander Rak. In 1960, he settled permanently in Tychy. He died in Tychy on 5 June 2010, at the age of 79. He practiced graphic arts: lithography, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, drypoint, painting, drawing, poster and book graphics. Many of his landscapes included panoramas of old Upper Silesia and the nearby Siemianowice Śląskie, as well as Katowice,

Chorzów Chorzów ( ; ; german: link=no, Königshütte ; szl, Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – a metropolis with a population ...

, Tychy and Gliwice.

References

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