Irena NOWAKOWSKA-ACEDAŃSKA, Lviv, Bernardine Church

oil, cardboard, 27 x 19 cm, signed p.d.: I. Nowakowska-Acedanska, l.d.: Lvov. On the back affixed confirmation of purchase at DESA in Gliwice, 1995 and handwritten description by the owner dating the painting to 1964.

Painter and graphic artist, before the war associated with the Lvov art community, lived in Gliwice since 1946. She was educated at the Technical School, Department of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Lviv, from which she graduated in 1932. Her Lviv years were mainly devoted to themes of historic architecture of Lviv and surrounding cities, while the postwar period is a continuation of the artist's architectural fascinations, enriched by industrial landscapes, still lifes and flowers. Most of the artist's works are cycles related to views of Gliwice, Warsaw, Cracow, Opole, Bielsko, as well as landscapes from holiday trips to Bulgaria and Hungary. She has painted oil paintings and watercolors, and has devoted much space to drawing. Of graphic techniques, she practiced woodcut and linocut.