Helena Krażowska-Knotowa(1911-1992),Bath

Woodcut, paper; 14 x 10 cm (clear passe-partout).

Helena Krażowska-Knotowa- (b. 1911, d. 1992 ) - graphic artist, painter from Cracow. She studied briefly at the Konrad Krzyzanowski School of Painting and Drawing in Warsaw. She studied graphic arts and painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (diploma 1937 in artistic graphic arts with first prize and a diploma in painting). She participated in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, receiving awards including first and second prize at the World Exhibition in New York in 1939. Since 1936 she was engaged in printmaking, mainly woodcut (less often linocut) which was her main form of artistic activity, she was also engaged in interior design, exhibition design, applied graphics, book and press illustration.She was a member of the Cracow GROUP OF NINE GRAPHICIAN ARTISTS presenting the most outstanding representatives of Polish woodcut in post-war Poland.