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Visual artist, illustrator of books and nature atlases, animalist.
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He was born on July 18, 1934 in Cieszyn. He died on February 8, 1981 in Warsaw.
Janusz Towpik graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1959. He studied painting as an auditor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the supervision of Prof. Michał Bylina.
In 1962, based on the submitted works, he was accepted into the Association of Polish Artists. From that year on, for almost 15 years, he was an assistant and then a lecturer at the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.
In the 70s, he collaborated with the Warsaw Zoological Garden, where he created an iconographic archive and ran an art club for children, one of the first of its kind in Europe.
From the early 60s, he illustrated popular science books, textbooks and nature atlases, but above all he was the author of illustrations for about 30 books for children and teenagers and a dozen or so fairy tales for diascope. He collaborated with such magazines as "Łowca Polski", "Płomyk" and "Przyroda Polska".
He also designed small graphic forms, e.g. postage stamps, postcards, ex libris, logotypes or match labels. He was the author of countless sketches and drawings, for which Polish nature was a constant source of inspiration. He was a horse expert and lover.
He participated in numerous competitions and exhibitions. His most recent work was a series of award-winning hunting-themed tapestry designs and a series of marquetry designs based on similar motifs.
Author of the text: Barbara Towpik-Roszkiewicz
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SELECTION OF ILLUSTRATED PUBLICATIONS
Maria Kownacka, Skinny raven had no kennel, BW Movement 1960
Wanda Markowska, Anna Milska, Hummingbirds singing, N. K. 1968
Haribu the hunter. Eastern fairy tales, collected and edited by A.Brindarow, NK 1968
Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, Dearest, Reader 1968
Henryk Sienkiewicz, In the desert and in the wilderness, N. K. 1969
Ruth Manning Saunders, About the sleeping prince. Greek folk tales, N. K. 1969
Friedrich Feld, Parrot from Isfahan, N. K. 1970
Angel Karaliichev, Three brothers and a golden apple tree, N. K. 1970
Halina Pietrusiewicz, Dog talks, N. K. 1970
Mieczyslaw Buczkówna, Forest track, B. W. Movement 1970
Halina Gorska, About Prince Geoffrey, Knight of the Christmas Star, N. K. 1971
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, N. K. 1973
Jadwiga ŻylinskaThe Tale of Heracles, KAW 1973
Jadwiga ŻylinskaThe Quest for the Golden Fleece, KAW 1974
Jadwiga Żylinska, Achilles youth, KAW 1974
Kat Walker, dream visions,NK-1977
Leopold StaffMay rain, N. K. 1978
Zygmunt Katuszewski, Włodyka, the forefather of kings, N. K. 1978
Luciano Sterpellone, A wonderful machine. Fantastic secrets of the human body, KAW 1979
Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, Lech, Czech and Rus, KAW 1980
Wlodzimierz Serafinski, Mammals of Poland, PZWS 1965
Andrzej Rudnicki, Fish of Polish waters. Atlas, WSiP 1965
PWN Universal Encyclopedia, IV, zoogeographical tables, PWN 1976
Zbigniew Wolinski, Janusz Towpik, Monkeys and monkeys. Atlas, WSiP 1990
PRIZES AND AWARDS
1967 – National Competition for Illustrations for Belles-lettres, XNUMXrd prize for illustrations
to the book by J. Lasocka The King Hunts
1968 - ZPAP competition entitled "The Rider and the Horse" - XNUMXst prize for the series of passes
1978 – The Great Prize of European Philately and the French President's Award at the XNUMXnd Autumn Philatelic Salon in Paris for the "Trees" series postage stamps
1978 – XNUMXst prize in the XNUMXst National Competition for Tapestry Painting Designs for the Castles of Southern Poland in the “Hunting and Hunting” section
1980 – special award in the 1979nd Publishers' Competition "The Most Beautiful Books of XNUMX"
for the illustrations to L. Sterpellone's book “Wonderful Machine. Fantastic secrets of the human body
Gallery:

"The King Hunts" (unpublished), XNUMXrd prize
in the National Illustration Competition. down
Belles-lettres, 1967

"About Duke Gottfried, knight
christmas star"
Our Bookstore 1971


in the National Mixed Competition "Rider and Horse"

Zygmunt Katuszewski
"Włodyka the forefather of kings"
Our Bookstore 1978

"Hunter Haribu. Eastern fairy tales "collected
and compiled by Ananyi Brindarov,
Our Bookstore 1968

"The Sleeping Prince. Greek Folk Tales." Nasza Księgarnia 1969

"Love and the Crown"
Our Bookstore 1970

