Jacques Hnizdovsky


Jacques Hnizdovsky , was a UkrainianAmerican painter , printmaker, sculptor, illustrator and lettering designer.

Jacques Hnizdovsky was born in Ukraine in the Borshchivskyi Raion of Ternopil Oblast in a noble family of Korab coat of arms. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Zagreb, and produced hundreds of paintings, numerous pen and ink drawings and watercolors, as well as over 375 prints after his move to the United States in 1949. He was inspired by woodblock printing in Japan as well as the woodcuts of Albrecht Drer. Influences on his early works can be seen on his website. Most of his woodcuts, were printed on washi, which in English is erroneously translated into rice paper

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