Hanna Krzetuska-Geppert (1903-1999), Cityscape, 68.00x56.50 cm, 1937
Artwork information:Hanna Krzetuska-Geppert (1903-1999), Urban Landscape, , 68.0x56.5 cm, 1937, very good condition, binding - frames made of slats painted white. Front right bottom: signature, Hanna Krzetuska 1937 , back top left: sticker DESA Auction House, Hanna Krzetuska-Geppert, Urban Landscape.
Hanna Krzetuska-Geppert (1903-1999) studied painting from 1920-24 at the Ludwika Mehoffer Free School of Painting and Drawing in Cracow, where Z.Pronaszko and J.Rubczak, among others, taught. She also graduated from the Higher Courses for Women. In 1925 she studied painting in Paris at private courses. Since 1946 she settled in Wroclaw. She was married to Eugeniusz Geppert, the first rector of the Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. From 1948, she worked at the Academy of Fine Arts as a senior assistant, and from 1958-1960, together with Zbigniew Karpinski (1920-1996), she ran the painting studio at the school. In 1961, she and her husband founded the Wroclaw Group, which functioned as the Wroclaw School until 1967. Both she and her husband lived and worked in a tenement house at 1/ 2 Ofiar Oswiecimskich Street, where one of the galleries of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw is currently located. Hanna Krzetuska's paintings are influenced by both Formism towards abstraction, as well as representational painting and Polish colorism. Creating in the shadow of her husband Eugeniusz Geppert, the artist has maintained a distinctiveness of painterly expression in her art, which is difficult when working in one studio with an artist with a strong personality. Quite a collection of her works was found posthumously in the Care and Treatment Facility run by the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Charles Borromeo in Trzebnica and donated to the Archdiocesan Museum in Wroclaw. In 2022, an exhibition of her works was held at the Geppert House, entitled. "This is me painting." Hanna Krzetuska-Geppert's work is still waiting for its well-deserved place not only in museum collections, but also on the art market. The currently unaffordable prices of her paintings are certainly a good investment in art with a prognosis for growth. The painting listed at auction at Desa Unicum in 2018.
