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Szczekacz probably took with him the photograph of the Russian painter Kazimierz Malewicz (1876-1936) hen he left for Brussels. "Strzemiński," Pinkus Szwarc recalled, "was fascinated by Kazimierz Malewicz," and in class he would demonstrate and explain to his students the works of the suprematist artist brought from Russia: "He made himself a suprematist lithograph at the time [1936] in homage to Malewicz. In turn, we printed the first book on Malewicz, which was easy because we were given a ready-made form, in black and white. This was my first step into lithography and printing. I owed a great deal to these skills, because after the war I was able to find work in a printing house in Paris." A. Kuligowska-Korzeniowska, "Ratowało mnie malarstwo…" Rozmowa z Pinkusem Szwarcem, [in:] Teatr żydowski w Polsce. Materials of an international scientific conference, ed. M. Leyko, Łódź 1998, p. 128–130.

Cf. Kazimierz Malewicz 1875-1935 [Album with lithographs and photographs. The lithographs based on the works of K. Malewicz were made by the students of the State Supplementary School No. 10 in Łódź. One (1) lithograph by Władysław Strzemiński, Łódź [1936], 29 x 29 cm, 26 original lithographs, 10 photographs of Malewicz's architects, 1 portrait, white paper, single-colour black lithographs + 1 colour lithograph, [in:] "Władysław Strzemiński 1893-1952 w setną rocznicę urodzin", Museum of Art, Łódź 1993, p. 212, cat. no. 4.A.42. | RP