Marek Laczynski

Marek Laczynski (1925 – 23 November 2021) was a printmaker, illustrator and teacher, born in Warsaw Poland. Laczynski was a member of the Polish Home Army in 1941 and was involved in the Warsaw uprising.^[1] From 1949 to 1952 he studied book illustration at the Borough Polytechnic and then lithography at the Central School of Art and Design from 1962 to 1964. He was a founding member of the Printmakers Council in 1965.^[2] He taught printmaking at Exeter College of Art and Design from 1964 until 1985, when he moved to Austria.^[3]

His work is held in the V&A,^[4] the University of Exeter, Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Gallery^[5] and London University.^[1] The British Museum holds nine of his woodcuts.^[6]

Bibliography

• The Wizard and His Pupil - a Polish Fairy Tale 1972 Bartholomew Press, Exeter
• Faces of Fear 1973 Exeter College of Art and Design