Josef Wilkon Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1930 -

Józef Wilkon was born on 12 February 1930 in Bogucice, near Kraków, Poland, Józef Wilkon is an excellent illustrator, painter, sculptor, poster and stage designer, as well as author and educator. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and history of art at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He illustrated over two hundred books for children and adults, published both in Poland and abroad, and wrote around a dozen children’s books. His sculptures and illustrations were exhibited worldwide, from the Centre Pompidou (1989) to the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, whose Wilkon’s Ark exhibition attracted record audiences in 2006/2007. His works are held by a range of international galleries and museums, including Le Musée de l’Illustration Jeunesse in Moulins, France; the Oshima Museum of Picture Books, the Chihiro Art Museum Azumino, and the Karuizawa Picture Book Museum in Japan; or the Museum of Literature and the National Library in Warsaw.