Karol Mondral, painter, printmaker and sculptor, was born in Warsaw, Poland on January 26, 1860. He studied at the Warsaw Drawing School with Wojciecha Gersona and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with Leona Wyczolkowski.

Residing in Paris from 1909 to 1921, Mondral devoted himself primarily to printmaking, working in etching, drypoint, woodcut, and lithography. He traveled throughout France and Switzerland before returning to Poland in 1922. He became head of the graphic arts department at the State School of Artistic Industry in Bydgoszcz and, after its closure, he worked at the State Industrial School in the same city. In 1931, Mondral was appointed a professor at the State School of Decorative Art in Poznan.

Mondral was a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, the Greater Poland Artists’ Group “Plastyke,” the Pomeranian Artists’ Association in Bydgoszcz, the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, and the Association of Polish Visual Artists. Solo exhibitions of his works were mounted in Paris in 1919 and 1921, and in Warsaw in 1930.

Karol Mondral died on December 16, 1957, in Poznan, Poland.

The 2013 exhibition catalog Karol Mondral (1880-1957). Graphic Art Between Paris, Bydgoszcz, and Poznań illustrates 343 graphic works along with drawings, paintings, and bookplates.