Julia Keilowa (Ringel) (born 1902 in Stryj, died 1943 in
Warsaw
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was a Polish artist industrial designer.
Early life
She came from an assimilated Jewish family. She attended schools in Lviv and Vienna.
She studied model manufacture at Lviv National Industrial School. In 1922 she married lawyer Ignacy Keil. She continued art studies 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 ...
. Her teachers included Karol Tichy, Wojciech Jastrzębowski, Józef Czajkowski and
Tadeusz Breyer
Tadeusz Breyer (15 October 1874 in Mielec – 15 May 1952 in Warsaw) - Polish sculptor and medallic artist. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. Then, he left for the Academy in Florence. In 1904 he moved to Warsaw. From 1910 to ...
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During her studies she worked mainly with
sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
. In 1929 she became member of sculpting cooperative „Forma”.
She exhibited at Art Promotion Institute.
Designer
In 1933 she established her own metalwork workshop. She designed around 400 usable objects, mainly plated objects. Warsaw factories produced her cutlery and crockery, including Norblin, Fraget and Henneberg Brothers. During
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
for two years she led a ceramic workshop. She died most probably at
Pawiak
Pawiak () was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland.
During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia.
During the World War II German occupation of ...
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In autumn 2012 an exhibition of her works took place in Copper Museum in
Legnica
Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czarna Woda ...
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In October 2015, a major exhibition in Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk focused solely on Keilowa's work.
Death
Little is known about circumstances of her death; it is likely she died in the German-run
Pawiak
Pawiak () was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland.
During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia.
During the World War II German occupation of ...
prison in 1943 during
The Holocaust in Poland
The Holocaust in Poland was part of the European-wide Holocaust organized by Nazi Germany and took place in German-occupied Poland. During the genocide, three million Polish Jews were murdered, half of all Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
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References
External links
* Keilowa's work i
Central Jewish Library
Further reading
''Out of the Ordinary: Polish Designers of the 20th Century'' by David Crowley, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2012
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1902 births
1943 deaths
Artists from Warsaw
Polish designers
Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust
20th-century Polish women artists
People from Ryki County