Andrzej Jurkiewicz

Polish painter and graphic artist Andrzej Jurkiewicz studied and later taught at Kraków and Warszawa, and eventually was appointed a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa. Jurkiewicz mainly created etchings, engravings, woodcuts, lithographs, and worked as a graphic artist, mostly of cover arts, illustrations, and bookplates, but was also engaged in painting. In the 1930s he was a member of the Sztuka society of artists. Initially, he was known for humorous, sometimes grotesque, drawings and then focused on sport motifs. His later paintings show a post-impressionist style and eventually abstract and geometric forms. He was married to painter Hanna Pachniewska (1910-87) but later divorced.

In 1948, his entry was simply called Jump, which could not be identified under this title. Probably Jump comprised a series of etchings on this theme. Known are, among others, the sheets Pole vault and High Jump (30 x 38 cm). For the 1952 art exhibition in Helsinki, he produced another series of etchings under the same title and with similar motifs including Run over hurdles II (29.5 x 44.2 cm), Pole Vault (44.4 x 29.8 cm) and High Jump (45 x 30 cm).