Maria GABRYEL-RUŻYCKA (1905-1961), Reconstruction, from the portfolio Zburzona Warszawa, 1947

woodcut, paper, 19.5 x 26.5 cm, signed in pencil p.d.: Maria Gabryel-Rużycka 1947. After conservation. Item 32 in the list of works in the catalog of the posthumous exhibition at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, 1963, compiled by. i. rylska.

Maria GABRYEL-RUZYCKA (1905-1961). She began her drawing studies with K. Olpinsky and P. Gajewski in Lviv. From 1925 she studied at the Krakow Academy with Mehoffer and Wojnarski, from where after three years she moved with a group of students of Szczesny Kwarski to Warsaw. There she continued her studies with Skoczylas and Bartłomiejczyk. For seven months she studied with Pankiewicz in Paris. She traveled extensively in Europe. She exhibited with the Pryzmat group and belonged to RYT. She gained notoriety after winning an honorary diploma at the International Woodcut Exhibition in Warsaw, 1933. She cultivated mainly longitudinal woodcuts, also etching, engraving and dry needlework. Her pre-war printmaking output includes about 50 prints; she destroyed many blocks herself, reusing them. The paintings were lost almost completely during the war. After the war, Rużycka was active in Gorlice, also as a decorator. She had a posthumous exhibition at Zachęta.