Jerzy Hoppen

Jerzy Hoppen (23 March 1891 – 4 October 1969) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, educator, art historian, and conservator.

[2] In 1931, he became an assistant and the head of the Department of Graphics and Decoration at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, while simultaneously completing his studies, which he finished in 1934.

[4] He exhibited his works in Poland and abroad, including in Warsaw, Poznań, The Hague, Copenhagen, Brussels, and Rome.

At the request of Father Kazimierz Kucharski, he organized a forgery unit that produced false documents, operating within the Jesuit college in Vilnius.

[6] His close collaborators in this effort were Feliks Zaniewski, Edward Kuczyński [pl] and Michał Warakomski and others.

[5] In later years, as the unit expanded, Hoppen reduced his involvement, focusing primarily on the most complex graphic tasks.

[5] In April 1946, he moved to Toruń, where he assumed the Chair of Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University.

[5] He laid the foundations for the Toruń school of graphic arts and designed the rectoral and dean's insignia for the university.