The Hieronim Łopaciński Public Library in Lublin invites you to the opening of an exhibition titled “The Fairy-Tale World of Janusz Towpik’s Illustrations” (Baśniowy świat w ilustracjach Janusza Towpika).
The exhibition is held under honorary patronage of Marshal of the Lublin Province Krzysztof Hetman.
JANUSZ TOWPIK (1934-1981) was a painter, author of illustrations for natural history books and atlases, animalist. Born on 18 July 1934 in Cieszyn, he spent his entire life in Warsaw. In 1959 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw’s University of Technology. He studied painting as an unenrolled student at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts in the workshop of Prof. Michał Bylina. In 1962 he became a member of the Association of the Polish Artists and Designers. For the following 15 years he served as a junior lecturer and lecturer with the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at the Warsaw Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture. In the 1970s he collaborated with Warsaw’s zoological garden, where he set up an iconographic archive and ran a children’s arts club – one of the first clubs of this kind in Europe. Starting from the 1960s, he made illustrations for scientific books for the general public as well as textbooks and atlases on natural history; he also authored illustrations for about 30 books for children and teenagers as well as for about 20 slide-projector fairy tales. He collaborated with magazines such as Łowca Polski, Płomyk and Przyroda Polska. He also designed small graphic forms, including postage stamps, postcards, bookplates, logotypes or matchbox labels. He was the author of numerous drafts and drawings inspired by Polish landscapes. He was an expert and enthusiast of horses. Towpik took part in numerous contests and exhibitions. His last works included a series of award-winning Gobelins on the subject of hunting as well as a series of intarsia works also devoted to hunting.
Admission free