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Portrait: Stanislaw Katzer
Stanislaw Katzer, born in Cracow in 1917. He got to know the sea in 1928 and has been faithful to is ever since. He started working in the sea on the board of a boy scouts; school schooner called "Zawisza Czarny" under general Mariusz Zaruski.
After the war he was sailing under commander Boleslaw Romanowski. He graduated arts and photography secondary school in Gdynia. He was very keen on graphic art, mainly woodcut, work in metal, oil painting and medal-making. Most of his work concerned the sea themes. He was involved in ship modeling work, naval artillery, navigational equipment. He published two books on ship modeling. He died in 1998.
Books published by Stanislaw Katzer (His books are available only on internet: www.allegro.pl or www.ebay.pl):
This book was written by my uncle Stanislaw Katzer. It was printed in 1970 by Wydawnictwo Morskie (Sea Publishers) in Gdansk (Danzig). 122 pages 19cm*19cm describing how to make models (scale 1:500) of all kinds of ships.
This book was written by my uncle Stanislaw Katzer. It
was printed in 1974 by Wydawnictwo Morskie (Sea Publishers) in Gdansk
(Danzig). 146 pages 19cm*19cm describing how to make models (scale 1:500)
of all kinds of ships.
We thank Dr.-Ing. Jacek Katzer for the information