Maria Ewa ŁUNKIEWICZ-ROGOYSKA (1895-1967), Composition (1957)

Maria Ewa ŁUNKIEWICZ-ROGOYSKA (1895-1967), Composition (1957)

oil, canvas

38 x 46 cm

Signed and dated p.d.

Maria Ewa Lunkiewicz-Rogoyska studied from 1921 to 1924 at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. After returning to Poland, she settled in Warsaw. She established extensive contacts with avant-garde groups such as "Blok", "Praesens", "a. r." and with artists of these groups, especially with Henryk Stażewski, Mieczysław Szczuka, Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro and others. In 1930 she went to Paris again, where she expanded these contacts to include the "Abstraction-Création" and "Cercle et Carré" groups, with whom she exhibited, and personalities such as Piet Mondrian, Michel Seuphor, Georges Vantongerloo. In 1931 she had her first solo exhibition at the Salon of Czeslaw Garlinski in Warsaw, and in 1932 she took part in one of the most important manifestations of the Polish constructivist avant-garde - the "New Generation" exhibition in Lviv and Lodz. Her painting in those years betrayed the influence of purism of Ozenfant and Jeanneret. In the late 1930s she painted abstract paintings, in which she drew on the experience of Cubism and her own predilection for subdued, subtle colors. During World War II, she lost almost all of her artistic output. After the war, close friends since the interwar years with Henryk Stażewski, she shared a studio with him, which became a lively center of modern art and a meeting place for artists and critics. She was also associated with Miron Bialoszewski's circle and worked with the Tarczynska Theater. After 1955, she exhibited at Marian Bogusz's Krzywe Koło Gallery, where she had a solo exhibition in 1962. She participated in the Painting Exhibition in the series "Polish Plastic Work in the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Polish People's Republic", National Museum, Warsaw 1961, the 1st Koszalin Plein Air, Osieki 1963, the 1st Symposium of the "Golden Grape", Zielona Gora 1965.