Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1897-1988) was a Polish artist and teacher.
Biography
Rudzka-Cybisowa was born on 27 June 1897 in
Mława
Mława (; yi, מלאווע ''Mlave'') is a town in north-east Poland with 30,403 inhabitants in 2020. It is the capital of Mława County. It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship.
During the invasion of Poland in 1939, the battle of Mława wa ...
, Poland. She studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie) is a public university of visual arts and applied arts located in the Polish capital. The Academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw U ...
where she was taught by . In 1923 Rudzka-Cybisowa became a student of the Polish Impressionist
Józef Pankiewicz
Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866, in Lublin – 4 July 1940, in La Ciotat) was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France.
Biography
From 1884 to 1885, he studied at the School of Fine Ar ...
. In 1924 she traveled to Paris along with a group of Polish students who named themselves the ''
Komitet Paryski'' (the Paris Committee, also called the Kapists). The same year she married the painter
Jan Cybis
Jan Cybis (16 February 1897 - 13 December 1972) was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher.
Biography
Cybis was born in Fröbel (now Wróblin, Opole Voivodeship, Poland) and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, set ...
(1897-1972) who was also part of the Komitet Paryski.
The couple stayed in France from 1924 through 1931.
From 1931 through 1933 Rudzka-Cybisowa lived in Kraków, returning for a time to Paris where she had a solo show at the Renaissance Gallery. In 1934 her work was included in a Kapists' group show at the ''Warszawskim Instytucie Propagandy Sztuki'' (Warsaw Art Propaganda Institute). Rudzka-Cybisowa remained in Poland through the Nazi occupation, continuing to paint. After the liberation she began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw .
The Academy was reestablished after the
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occ ...
.
She taught there until her retirement in 1967.
She was active in the ''Krakowskiego Okręgu Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków'' (Krakow District of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers).
In 1971 the ''Muzeum Narodowe'' (National Museum) in
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...
held a retrospective of her work.
Rudzka-Cybisowa died on 3 February 1988 in Kraków.
References
External links
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images of Rudzka-Cybisowa's workon ArtNet
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1897 births
1988 deaths
People from Mława
20th-century Polish women artists