Mrozewski, Stefan
1894 - 1975
artistA wood engraver, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czestochowa. He studied formally at the Domestic Art School in Poznan and at the Fine Art Academy of Krakow and Warsaw. He chose to concentrate on wood engraving as a result of his brief studies in the Warsaw studio of Wladyslaw Skoczylas. In 1925, he joined the artistic community in Paris. Soon afterward, he went to Bucharest where he was engaged to illustrate Dostoyevsky's Les freres Karamzoff and Ruke's Cahiers de Malte Laurids Brigge. From 1932 to 1935, he exhibited in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Brussels. From 1935 to 1937, he worked in London, engraving the likes of King George V, H. G. Wells, G. B. Shaw, and Sir A. N. Chamberlain. In 1951, Mrozewski entered the United States at the invitation of the Huntington Hartford Foundation. He settled in California where he lived out the remainder of his life. During a half-century of professional artistic activity, Mrozewski produced more than 3,000 wood engravings.
From: Przygoda, Jacek. Polish Americans in California. Los Angeles: Polish American Historical Association, 1978; Wasita, Ryszard. "Magician of the Burin." Poland Magazine, 261, May 1976.