Zbigniew Rychlicki Children’s Book Illustration from Poland Part 1
Happy Monday to one and all. I wanted to start with some fantastic news which really cheered my day this morning and that is that Fishink Blog has been shortlisted in the National UK Blog Awards !!!!. It now moves into round two where judges will take an overview of each of the shortlisted sites and they will be marked against five criteria, namely
1. Design, 2. Style, 3. Content, 4. Marketing and 5. Usability.
The other 10 blogs in my category are :-
Arts & Culture Individual Shortlist
Alice Dunn, The Surrey Edit: http://www.surreyedit.com/
Craig, Fishink Blog: http://www.fishinkblog.wordpress.com
Imo Babics, FilmAware: http://www.filmaware.com/
Kim Forrester, Reading Matters: http://www.readingmattersblog.com/
Mark Rigney, Hookedblog: http://www.hookedblog.co.uk
Natasha Nuttall, Graphique Fantastique: http://www.graphiquefantastique.com
Robin Jarossi, CrimeTimePreview: http://www.crimetimepreview.com/
Simon Savidge, Savidge Reads: http://savidgereads.wordpress.com
Steven Blyth, Urban Kultur Blog: http://www.urbankulturblog.com
William Lee Adams, Wiwibloggs: http://wiwibloggs.com
Zarina Rimbaud-Kadirbaks, Dutch Girl in London: http://www.dutchgirlinlondon.com
Many thanks again to everyone who voted for my blog, flippers crossed for round two ! and in the meantime, let’s get on with today’s post : )
Zbigniew Rychlicki was born January 17, 1922 in Orzechówka, Poland.
After studying and graduating at the Institute (1946) and then Academy (1956) for Fine Arts in Kraków. In the years 1947-1948 he worked in the Animated Film Studio in Lodz. He went on to work as a graphic artist and illustrator of children’s books
In 1949 he moved to Warsaw, taking a job at the Institute of Publishing “Nasza Księgarnia” “Our Bookstore”, where until 1951 he was artistic director for youth published weekly “friend” and later chief of graphic arts and graphic editors. In 1972, serving as chief duties still graphics became deputy director for art and graphics. Practised graphics, illustration and poster. Cooperation with magazines for children and youth illustrated more than 150 books !
He is the acclaimed winner of more than 20 national and international awards and prizes, the winner of the Sakharov Prize, and the Hans Christian Andersen Prize award in the field of illustration (1982) given by the jury of the International Committee for Books for Children and Young People (IBBY) for outstanding artistic achievement. He is an author of children’s books illustrations, including From ‘Things to Things’ by Wanda Chotomska, Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, Jules Verne’s ‘Mysterious Island’ and ‘Please Elephant’ by Louis George Kern.
He was the author of the graphic pages of a magazine “Teddy Bear”, created a plastic form Uszatek Bear and other characters: Piglet, Rabbit, Easter Bunny and Dog. For over 30 years he worked as a chief graphic designer at the Institute of Publishing for Our Bookstore. The author projects the characters and scenery for the puppet animated series Bear Uszatek carried out between 1970 and 1980 in the Se-ma-for in Łódź.
He is also a Knight of the Order of Smile, and it’s easy to see why ! More from this illustrator (with a more christmassy feel ) on wednesday. Many thanks to Jarmila09 who’s images helped to create this post.
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Congratulations, fingers firmly crossed for you. You deserve to be there, fantastic blog.
Many thanks Elaine, if I don’t get any further I’m happy just to have got to round two. I really appreciate everyone’s support !
Great post as always and congratulations on round two! Knock em dead!
Many thanks David, love your style by the way. May come a knocking on your door for a feature post next year if that’s ok.
That would be great! Thanks Craig.
I appreciate your sharing the book illustrators. The paintings are absolutely charming, imaginative, and exciting.
My pleasure. As I often say it’s always easy to share beautiful things : ) Thanks for your comments.
Congratulations, Craig! Well deserved recognition. Best of luck on Round Two!
Thanks Cindy, but I couldn’t have got this far without my readers. Even if I don’t get any further, this is still great news for me. : )
Woohoo, congratulations Craig! Your site and all your hard work totally deserve this recognition and I’ve got my fingers and toes and everything crossed for you to win!! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Lizzie for your rallying round my voters too, obviously it’s all helped immensely… YAY !
I was happy to be part of the team because more people need to know about your blog and beautiful work! All power to your elbow!! xxx
Cheers me dear, for a moment there I thought you were going to say Power to the people. I had a Citizen Smith moment then : )
Hello, thank you for a wonderful collection of illustrations! 🙂
I’d only like to ask you to correct the information about his birth – he was born in Orzechówka, Poland, and died in Bratislava, Hungary. It’s also not good to leave out the original names of the publishing houses like the “Nasza Księgarnia” (“Our Bookstore”). All of their books are released under the name of “Nasza Księgarnia”, so the translation could be put in the brackets – like I did – only to grasp the meaning of the name for the English speakers.
Thanks Lela, access to correct dates, places etc is always difficult when you’re relying on information other people have put on-line. I’m always happy to correct and update, so thanks for both ! : )
Thank you for correcting! I’m aware of the problems, and many people use platforms like google translate which automatically translate all the names from a text. For example, name of the village where Mr Rychlicki was born, Orzechówka, is indeed derived from a word meaning nut (orzech), but shouldn’t be translated because otherwise no one could find it on the map of Poland 🙂
Cheers, I love your blog!