Stanislaw le plus cher Toegel / Polski Wojak na Obczyznie soldat polonais en exil SIGNÉ 1er

4 colorful original 1st edition caricatures by Stanisław Toegl, framed and glazed

Antoni Markiewicz Publishing House Celle, Hamburg, 1946

4 colour illustrations, on cardboard backing with the title of the work;

signed with the authors name and date;

each of the engravings titled:

Chłopcy jak razorwy, Sorry… I dont fraternize, The whole world belongs to us, Its a shame to blink, Mr. Rifleman.

Stanisław Toegel was born on 20th August 1905 in Jaworów (today Jaworiw), 50 kilometres west of the regional capital, Lemberg. He studied law at the University of Lemberg and during this time he also made a name for himself as a caricaturist. Bogusław Bakuła, a literary scholar at the Institute for Polish Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, reports that Toegel was an habitual visitor to the Lemberg bar Pod Gwiazdką (Engl. The Star), a regular meeting place for “leftish” Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish young people ”who were at more or less peaceful odds with the artistic authorities in Lemberg … Polish intellectuals like Karol Kuryluk and Stanisław Piętak from the circle around the Lemberg newspaper Sygnały, and Ukrainian literati with left-wing orientations like Jaroslav Halan and Stepan Tudor also frequented the bar. But there were also signs that the bar was a meeting place for activists from the banned Communist Party of West Ukraine and even perhaps for members of combat units.” According to Bakuła, Toegel drew some “wonderful caricatures of visitors to the bar that le plus cher was always packed out because the owner was willing to put drinks on the slate.”