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List Of Polish Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Poland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), sculptor, fiber artist *Zofia Atteslander (1874–1928), painter * Maess Anand (1982), drawing artist B * Zofia Baltarowicz-Dzielińska (1894–1970), sculptor *Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz (1857–1893), portrait painter *Elisa Bloch (1848–c.1904), sculptor *Olga Boznańska (1865–1940), painter *Ewa Braun (born 1944), decorator, costume designer *Fredda Brilliant (1903–1999), sculptor, actress *Bogna Burska (born 1974), installation artist, playwright *Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska, ceramist C *Iwona Chmielewska (born 1960), author and illustrator * Halina Chrostowska (1929–1990), visual artist, printmaker, educator, activist * Ewa Ciepielewska (born 1960), painter, performance artist, activist D * Krystyna Dąbrowska (1906–1944), sculptor, painter *Maria Dulębianka (1861–1919), painter, portraitist *Dorota Dziekie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorota Dziekiewicz-Pilich
Dorota Dziekiewicz-Pilich (born 25 June 1969 in Szczecinek, Poland) is a Polish sculptor and drawing artist. Education She passed the matura exam in Liceum im. Księżnej Elżbiety (Lyceum of Princess Elizabeth) in Szczecinek and later Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. She learned sculpturing from Professor Józef Petruk and Professor Józef Kopczyński. She graduated in 1993. Style and type of sculptures Dziekiewicz-Pilich creates sculptures mainly made of bronze with the lost-wax casting technique. Her favourite types of sculptures are portrait and grotesque. She also makes small forms like: statuettes, medals, commemorative plaques, jewellery and other items. An important place in Dorota Dziekiewicz-Pilich creations take children topics. She made many sculptures, which in realistic or grotesque ways portray children, their play, dance, dalliance and mischief. Dziekiewicz-Pilich also creates large sculpturing works like statues: concept and project of the statue comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Korn
Halina Korn, actual name: Halina Julia Korngold (22 January 1902, in Warsaw – 2 October 1978, in London) – Polish painter, sculptor and writer of Jewish origin. She was the wife of Marek Żuławski. Biography Her father, Julian, was a representative of foreign companies selling leather goods. Her mother, came from the Petite bourgeoisie and was brought up in a small provincial town near Lyon in France. Before the war, Korngold studied journalism in the Warsaw School of Political Sciences. At the same time she took singing lessons from Adela Comte-Wilgocka and the distinguished Stanisława Korwin-Szymanowska, sister of Karol Szymanowski. In August 1939 she left for France, where she was overtaken by the outbreak of World War II. In Paris, she worked as a typist in the Ministry of Welfare, part of the Polish government-in-exile, with which she moved to Angers. After the Fall of France in May 1940, she came to Great Britain where she stayed until the end of her life. She st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Kolaczkowska
Urszula Kołaczkowska (4 October 1911 - 29 December 2009) was a Polish fine artist who specialized in hand weaving and textile arts. Biography She was the daughter of Zofia née Słonczyńska (1872–1953) and Edward Kołaczkowski (born on 18 November 1849 in Suchodoły, died on 12 August 1933 in Lublin), a landowner, citizen of Lublin city, member of the Lublin City Council and Mayor of Lublin in 1915. In 1915, Zofia moved with her daughter to Zakopane, where she provided Urszula with her early education at home. Urszula later attended Ładysław of Gielniowo High School, a private school situated on Nowotarska St. in Zakopane, from 1924 to 1931. Between 1931 and 1937, Kołaczkowska studied history at the University of Warsaw. Her master's thesis was on “Territorial Development of Warsaw around the Lubomirski Embankment”, written under the supervision of professor Stanisław Arnold, and in October 1937, she was awarded a master's degree in history. While studying histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Kobro
Katarzyna Kobro (26 January 1898 – 21 February 1951) was a Polish avant-garde sculptor and a prominent representative of the Constructivist movement in Poland. A pioneer of innovative multi-dimensional abstract sculpture, she rejected Aestheticism and advocated for the integration of spatial rhythm and scientific advances into visual art. Born in Moscow to a family of mixed German and Russian heritage, Kobro immigrated to Poland in the 1920s where she produced most of her work. Together with her husband, Władysław Strzemiński, she worked on the concept of Spatiality by incorporating spatial composition as well as prefabricated elements and industrial or man-made products into sculpture. Early life Katarzyna Kobro was born on 26 January, 1898 in Moscow, in what was then the Russian Empire, to a multicultural family. Her father, Nikolai Alexander Michael von Kobro, came from a family of Baltic Germans from present-day Latvia, and her mother, Evgenia Rozanov, was Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisława De Karłowska
Stanisława de Karłowska (8 May 1876 – 9 December 1952) was a Polish-born artist who was a was a founder member of the The London Group, London Group. Her work combined a modernist style with elements of Polish folk art. Life and work Stanisława de Karłowska was the daughter of Aleksander de Karłowski and Paulina (from the Tuchołka family). Her father's family was descended from the Polish nobility (szlachta) and had substantial estates centred on Wszeliwy, near Łowicz, in central Poland. The family had a long history of patriotic activity, and her father had fought with Lajos Kossuth and Józef Bem in the late 1840s. He had also suffered considerable financial loss through the part that he played in the January Uprising of 1863. Stanisława had trained as an artist in Kraków prior to enrolling at the Académie Julian in Paris, in 1896. In the following summer she went to Jersey to the wedding of a fellow Polish art student Janina Flamm to Eric Forbes-Robertson. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska
Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska (Rowiny, Drohiczyn Poleski County, 26 July 1932 – 29 June 2007, Warsaw) was a Polish sculptor and animated-film scenarist. Life In 1952–58 she studied in the Sculpture Department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with Professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. On 15 June 1958 she obtained a diploma with distinction. From the 1960s she participated in many Polish and foreign exhibitions. Work Her work may be classified as belonging to biological expressionism. She worked principally in small sculptural forms, in the media of ceramics, aluminum, bronze and cast iron. In the 1960s her chief subject was the natural world and its transformations—cycles of insects, lichens, corals, trees. Ensuing years brought an interest in the human figure and scenes from everyday life. In 1963 she took third place in a competition for a Monument to the Heroes of Westerplatte. In 1977 she co-authored a winning design for a monument to Bolesław Prus. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali (painter)
Kali (Hanna Weynerowska, born Hanna Gordziałkowska; (December 18, 1918 – June 20, 1998) was a Polish-born American painter known for her stylized portraits. She has been described as one of the most important Polish female painters. She was a World War II veteran of the Polish Resistance Movement after Nazi Germany occupied Poland, when she used the nom de guerre ''Kali''. After emigrating and marrying, she used many variants of name, including "Hanna Kali Weynerowski", "Hanna Weynerowski-Kali", "Hanna Gordziałkowski-Weynerowski", "Hanka Weynerowska", and "Hanna Gordziałkowski", but she signed her paintings ''Kali''. Work The figures in her art resemble Old Masters in subject and positioning, but are painted in a simplified, flattened and more graphic manner. The paintings are brightly colored, often portraying the subject shown sitting at bust-length, with an elongated face, flattened body, a patterned element such as part of the clothing, and with the subject's hands posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewa Juszkiewicz
Ewa Juszkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: ; born 3 September 1984 in Gdańsk) is a Polish surrealist painter. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. She is considered one of the best-known contemporary Polish artists. Career and style Between 2004 and 2009, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She is a member of the AAA Tanie Wizualki collective. Among the distinguishing features of the artist's works are surrealist female portraits inspired by classic 18th and 19th-century paintings. She is notable for masking the faces of the subjects of her portraits with locks of hair, bunches of flowers, shells or fabrics. By reinterpreting Flemish masterpieces Juszkiewicz seeks to redress historical failures in the artistic portrayal of women who were often relegated to being little more than anonymous objects of beauty. According to art critic Lucia Longhi, Juszkiewicz "dismantled these old paradigms that hid a woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danuta Joppek
Danuta Joppek is a Polish artist and painter. She was curator and co-organiser of some exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and the author of analytical texts about art. Biography She was born in 1955 in Węglówka, Poland. She graduated from graduated from the Wychowanie Plastyczne, Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Sztuk Plastycznych ('' now: Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts'') in 1989 and the Malarstwo i Grafika, Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Sztuk Plastycznych (''now: ASP'') in 1990. From 1986 through 1991 she worked as a scenery designer for Teatr Wybrzeże in Gdańsk. She is a member the Association of Polish Artists and Designers The Association of Polish Artists and Designers (, ZPAP) is an official association of professional artists in Poland, representing more than 8,500 learned artists working in the field of visual arts, including: painting, sculpture, graphic design, .... Her work is in the collection of the National Museum, Gdańsk. References External links {{DEF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Janus
Jadwiga Janus (21 October 1931 – 9 March 2019) was a Polish sculptor. Biography Janus was born in Stadnicka Wola, Poland. In 1957, she graduated from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, under professor Xawery Dunikowski. Monuments *Monument Pogromcom hitleryzmu in Wieluń, (1966) *Monument Władysław Żarski in Piotrków Trybunalski, (1969) *Monument Martyrologii Dzieci in Łódź, (1971) *Monument Nicolaus Copernicus in Łódź, (2002) In collections * National Museum, Warsaw. *Polish Sculpture Center. *Museum in Łódź. *Museum Sztuki Medalierskiej in Wrocław. *Museum Leon Wyczółkowski in Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more .... *Wielkopolskie Muzeum Walk Niepodległościowych. Film (documentary) *2005: Inspirations ("Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronisława Janowska
Bronisława Janowska or Bronisława Anna Waleria Rychter-Janowska (13 July 1868 – 29 September 1953) was a Polish realist painter and publisher associated with the Kraków-based Young Poland movement. An exceptionally prolific artist, her work is on display in many private and state collections, including the Historical Museum of Kraków, the National Museum of Poland, and the Vatican Museums. Life She was born to the noble family of Władysław Janowski Ślepowron coat of arms, a participant in the January Uprising against the Russian domination, and his wife Malwina z Borzęckich Półkozic coat of arms. Her older brother Stanisław Janowski (1866–1942), a second husband of famous dramatist Gabriela Zapolska, was also a painter; he taught her the basics of art-making. Bronisława studied painting in Munich from 1896 to 1902. In 1900 she married Tadeusz Rychter, a painter like herself, the son of a Lwów professor. She rejected a marriage proposal from renowned Cracovian act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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