Artystyczne dokonania drzeworytnika Jana Styfiego (1841–1921) na łamach warszawskiego czasopisma „Tygodnik Ilustrowany”

From the mid-19th century, following the example of Western European periodicals, illustrative magazines flourished in Warsaw, which had a significant impact on a wide range of recipients. Their aim was to maintain and revitalize the national consciousness of Poles, and the woodcut works served, among others, presenting works of art created by Polish artists working at that time. Jan Styfi (1841–1921), a woodcut artist whose works were published in, among others, “Tygodnik Ilustrowany” and “Kłosy”, was of particular importance for the development of Warsaw’s illustrative magazines. For these magazines, the period of Styfi’s activity was a time of systematically increasing the artistic value of works made using the woodcut technique. The artistic achievements of Jan Styfi, who realized, among others, works whose original authors included: Józef Tadeusz Polkowski (1820–1895), Franciszek Kostrzewski (1826–1911), Henryk Pillati (1832–1894), Wojciech Gerson (1831–1901), Franciszek Tagazzo (1829–1879), Juliusz Kossak (1824–1899), Julian Cegliński (1827–1910), constitute a contribution to the image of Polish woodcuts in the second half of the 19th century.