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Augusta Kochanowska (6 July 1868 – 7 December 1927) was a Polish artist, known for painting and illustrations.
Augusta Kochanowska
on ArtNet.com 1868 births 1927 deaths Polish women painters University of Applied Arts Vienna alumni 19th-century Polish painters Artists from Austria-Hungary People from the Duchy of Bukovina {{Poland-painter-stub
Augusta Kochanowska (6 July 1868 – 7 December 1927) was a Polish artist, known for painting and illustrations.
About
Augusta Kochanowska was born on 6 July 1868 inSadhora
Sadhora ( uk, Садгора; german: Sadagora; pl, Sadagóra; ro, Sadagura; yi, סאדיגורא Sadigora, also Sadagura and Sadiger) is a settlement in Ukraine, now a Sadhirskyi District of Chernivtsi city, which is located 6 km from the ...
( Chernivtsi), Duchy of Bukovina
The Duchy of Bukovina (german: Herzogtum Bukowina; ro, Ducatul Bucovinei; uk, Герцогство Буковина) was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1849 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary from 1867 until 1918 ...
, now Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. From 1894 until 1899, she studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
The University of Applied Arts Vienna (german: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, or informally just ''Die Angewandte'') is an arts university and institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university sta ...
(also known as Kunstgewerbeschule des KK Osterr). She lived in Chernivtsi from the period 1885 until 1920, with some breaks.
Her work was influenced by Ukrainian writer Olha Kobylianska
Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska ( uk, Ольга Юліанівна Кобилянська; 27 November 1863 Gura Humorului, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary - 21 March 1942 Cernăuți, Cernăuți County, Romania) was a Ukrainian modernist writer and fe ...
, who she met in 1874. Kochanowska made numerous illustrations for her books.
In 2013, the Chernivtsi Art Museum published a catalog of the artist's life and work.
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Augusta Kochanowska
on ArtNet.com 1868 births 1927 deaths Polish women painters University of Applied Arts Vienna alumni 19th-century Polish painters Artists from Austria-Hungary People from the Duchy of Bukovina {{Poland-painter-stub