Wanda Gołkowska (17 December 1925 – 7 August 2013) was a Polish artist.
Background
Gołkowska was born on 17 December 1925, in
Rzeszów
Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...
. She attended the primary school in
Grajewo
Grajewo (; ) is a town in north-eastern Poland with 21,499 inhabitants (2016). It is the capital of Grajewo County within the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is located within the historic region of Masovia, near the border with Podlachia and Masuria.
H ...
. In 1946, Gołkowska started studying at the Faculty of Humanities at the
University of Torun, but she and her family moved to
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
in the same year. From 1946 to 1952, Gołkowska studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, in the studio of
Eugeniusz Geppert. In 1991, she became a full professor at the
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Arts and Design in Wrocław () is a public institution of higher learning established in 1946 originally as the College of Fine Arts. From 2008 the university bears the name of Polish master-painter Eugeniusz Ge ...
. Between 1953 and 2006, Gołkowska took part in around 300 group exhibitions, and events, and presented over 30 individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She died on 7 August 2013, in Wrocław.
Gallery
File:Wanda Gołkowska, Tablica z kwadratami I, 1969..jpg, ''Tablica z kwadratami I, 1969''
File:Kinestezjon, 1970.jpg, ''Kinestezjon, 1970''
File:Figury FI, 1997.jpg, ''Figury Fi, 1997''
References
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1925 births
2013 deaths
Polish contemporary artists
Polish educational theorists
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń alumni
People from Rzeszów
20th-century Polish painters
20th-century Polish women painters
21st-century Polish painters