Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska (April 27, 1905 – October 10, 1992) was a Polish painter. She was the daughter of

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and

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Maria Wojciechowska.

Biography

She graduated from the Female State Junior High School J. Słowacki in Warsaw in 1924, while learning painting and drawing with Tadeusz Marczewski. In the same year, she took up studies at the

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under the supervision of

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. She graduated in 1930 after a break related to maternity leave and her husband's illness. She stayed in touch with the Brotherhood of Saint. Łukasz. She was a member of

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(ZPAP). She practised portraits and wall painting, but the mainstream of her work was traditional religious painting. She left about 100, usually unsigned, paintings in Polish churches, including twenty in Warsaw churches. She also drew numerous charcoal portraits, including illustrations for her husband's novel Rapsodia Świdnicka (1955).

Family life

In 1927, she married the writer

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, son of three times Polish Prime Minister

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. They had four children, Kazimierz (1929–1983), Maciej Władysław (1934–2016), Agnieszka (1937–2009) and Michał (1941–1986). Her son, Maciej is the father of the

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candidate for

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. She is buried next to her husband in

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