Leszek Rózga, Crete, an Icon, 2008

Leszek Rózga was a Polish artist born in 1924 and died in 2015. His work is part of major collections like Ermitage, Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Albertina in Vienna but also the World bank in Washington D.C. He is considered as one of the most important artists in the history of graphic arts in Poland.
After having taken individual lessons in painting and drawing from Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska between 1945 et 1946, he studied at Fine Arts School in Lodz in 1948, in studios of professors like Adam Rychtarski, Stefan Wegner and Ludwik Tyrowicz. 1952 onwards, he continued his studies at the Fine Arts School in Katowice, where he studied painting and engraving, and obtained his diploma with honors in 1954 from the Fine Arts Academy in Krakow. 1967 onwards, he studied graphic arts at the Fine arts school in Lodz, the he founded the Faculty of graphic arts with Stanislaw Fijalkowski and Roman Artymowski in 1971. His work is part of major collections like Ermitage, Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Albertina in Vienna but also the World bank in Washington D.C. He is considered as one of the most important artists in the history of graphic arts in Poland.