Krystyna Wróblewska (1904-1994), Solvay Plant in Kraków, 1949

original lang woodcut, paper, card size 35x25 cm
The graphic is from the Teka of woodcuts issued by the Provincial Office in Cracow on the occasion of July 22, 1949.

Krystyna Wróblewska (1904-1994), née Hirschberg, Polish graphic artist, wife of the rector of Vilnius University, mother of painter Andrzej Wróblewski.

She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Stefan Batory University, where she studied under Ludomir Sleńdzinski and Jerzy Hoppen, among others (graduated in 1937). She was a member of the Vilnius Group. Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Association of Polish Artists. After 1945, she was associated with Cracow, where she was active in the artistic and pedagogical field; among other things, as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology and chairwoman of the Group of Nine Graphic Artists (1947-1960). The artist's creative path was mainly associated with the traditions of classicism, realism and expressionism, as well as the woodcut technique. She also became famous for her ex-librises exhibited all over the world.