Zygmunt WALISZEWSKI (1897-1936), Portrait of Aniela Steinsberg, 1924

Pencil, paper; 39 x 29 cm (in light of passe-partout);
Signed, dated and described p. d.: Z. Waliszewski 924 / Kraków.

Aniela Steinsbergowa (born in Vienna in 1896 - died in Warsaw in 1988) Polish lawyer (the first woman lawyer admitted to the bar in Cracow in 1925), social activist and translator, lawyer in political trials in the People's Republic of Poland - defender of Kazimierz Moczarski and other members of the Home Army, PPS activist, opposition activist in the People's Republic of Poland, co-founder of the Workers' Defense Committee and the Committee for Social Self-Defense KOR.
She was married to Emil Steinsberg, a well-known Cracow lawyer, and had lived in Cracow since around 1921. Aniela Steinsberg knew Zygmunt Waliszewski well personally. Aniela Steinsberg's paternal younger sister was Dorota Saydenmann (née Berlinerblau), a well-known painter, a pupil of Józef Pankiewicz, a member of the Paris Committee, and a close friend of Hanna Rudzka Cybisowa.