Aniela Pajakowna Selfportrait with daughter 1907

Aniela Pająkówna (1864, Medyka - 24 April 1912, Paris) was a Polish painter; mostly of portraits. Her daughter was the dramatist

Stanisława Przybyszewska Stanisława Przybyszewska (; 1 October 1901 – 15 August 1935) was a Polish dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French Revolution. Her 1929 play '' The Danton Case'', which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre an ...

Biography

Her father was a coachman. Thanks to the generosity of his employers, the journalist and political activist and his wife Helena (née Dzieduszycka), she was able to study art; first in Kraków with

Florian Cynk Florian Stanisław Cynk (3 May 1838 – 10 October 1912) was a Polish painter, notably of religious subjects, and a prominent art teacher. He also worked as an illustrator. Biography He was born in Kraków and began his studies at the Jan Mate ...

then, after 1886, in Paris at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

and the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

with

Carolus-Duran Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (Lille 4 July 1837 – 17 February 1917 Paris), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France. Biograph ...

and Jean-Jacques Henner.Brief biography
@ the Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny. She also spent some time studying in Munich. In 1891, she returned to Poland, settled in

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and set up her own studio. She had her first exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Art in 1896. The following year, she began to exhibit with the

Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts ( pl, Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie, TPSP) is a social group of artists, artisans and their supporters founded in Kraków in 1854, under the Austrian Partition of Poland. Today, the ...

and participated in a major show at the Cloth Hall in 1899. She also exhibited abroad; notably at the Vienna Künstlerhaus and the Salon des Indépendants. In 1898, she met

Stanisław Przybyszewski Stanisław Przybyszewski (; 7 May 1868 – 23 November 1927) was a Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent naturalistic school. His drama is associated with the Symbolist movement. He wrote both in German and in Polish. Life Stanis� ...

in Lwów, where he was giving a lecture on Chopin. Later, they had a brief affair, resulting in the birth of her daughter, Stanisława. For a time, she also took care of his daughter Iwa, from his marriage to Dagny Juel. In 1907, facing discrimination for being a single mother with an illegitimate child, she and her daughter began moving about; first to Vienna, then Zürich and Munich, finally settling in Paris in 1909. She died there, of pneumonia, three years later. Stanisława was placed in the care of an aunt.(p
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"Aniela Pająkówna – Malarka z Medyki"
by Bartusz Jakubowski @ the Jagiellonian Digital Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Pajakowna, Aniela 1864 births 1912 deaths 19th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish painters Polish women painters Polish portrait painters Académie Colarossi alumni Académie Julian alumni Deaths from pneumonia in France People from Przemyśl County 20th-century Polish women