Dimensions: 68 x 51.5 cm
signed and described on the reverse: 'Krzetuska | Forms 8/67 | OL/P£ | 72 x 56'.
Biography
Between 1920 and 1924, she studied easel painting at the Ludwika Mehoffer Free School of Painting and Drawing in Cracow under professors: J. Fedkowicz, Z. Pronaszka, J. Rubaczek. In 1925 she left for Paris for further artistic studies. Since 1926 she was a member of ZPAP, and since 1937 of the Association of Artists "Zwornik". She was affiliated with the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1960, first as a senior assistant, and from 1958 as the head (together with Z. Karpinski) of the painting studio.
She had numerous individual and group exhibitions, including: ZPAP Wroclaw 1949; TPSP Krakow 1956; "Zacheta" Warsaw 1959; BWA Wroclaw 1964; Palace of Art Krakow 1971; Jatki Gallery Wroclaw 1978; Gallery "Views" Wroclaw 1980, Independents - Krakow 1927; Exhibition of "Zwornik" - Lviv, Warsaw 1938; Spring Salon - Warsaw 1946; IV All-Poland Exhibition of Fine Arts - Warsaw 1954; Exhibition of 21 painters from Poland - London 1960; Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting - Szczecin 1962; Contemporary Polish Painting and Graphics - West Berlin 1969, Cincinnati (USA) 1970; Exhibition of Polish Plastic Art - Brasov 1973; Exhibition of Wroclaw artists - Dresden 1978. Selected awards: honorable mention at the First All-Poland Exhibition of Workers' Union - Warsaw 1950; ZPAP Medal at the Third Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting - Szczecin 1966.
