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"Zcyklu ficuralnecu" Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka
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"Zcyklu ficuralnecu"
Gouache
1962
31 x 27.5 cm
Artist: Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka
Polish | 1911 - 2001
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Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka (born June 20, 1911, in Lviv; died August 20, 2001, in Pruszków) – Polish abstract painter.
Biography
She was born on June 20, 1911, in Lviv, the second daughter of Bronisław Paklikowski, a physician and art patron from Lviv, and Joanna Żołobajluk, a Polish Armenian from Pokucie. Her older sister was Bronisława Maria, the wife of General Bolesław Nieczuja-Ostrowski.
She graduated from the State School of Decorative Arts and Crafts in Kraków. In 1934, she married the painter Aleksander Winnicki de Radziewicz (1911-2002). In the pre-war period, she worked as a drawing and costume design teacher at the private vocational school for girls in Bydgoszcz and subsequently at the private girls' dressmaking gymnasium in Przemyśl.[1]
During World War II, she and her husband helped artists of Jewish descent—Artur Nacht-Samborski, Jonasz Stern, and Erna Rosenstein, among others—hide from the Germans. For this, they were posthumously (in 2019) honored by Yad Vashem with the Medal of Righteous Among the Nations.[2]
In 1944, she moved with her husband to Lublin, where she designed costumes for the Polish Army Theatre and co-founded the Association of Polish Visual Artists, of which Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka also became a member. In 1945, they settled in Warsaw, in the Saska Kępa district. In 1946, she began studying at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in 1947 with a diploma in the studio of Professor Kazimierz Tomorowicz. In 1947–1948, she traveled to France and Italy on a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Art.[3] While still a student, she became his assistant and began teaching at the university. In 1957, she was given the title of lecturer. From 1962 to 1966, she was vice-dean of the Faculty of Sculpture[4], from 1968 to 1974 head of the Chair of Painting, Drawing, and Design of Forms and Surfaces at the Faculty of Sculpture, and from 1982 to 1983 head of the Chair of Drawing at the Faculty of Painting. In 1983, she was appointed extraordinary professor and retired in 1984. She worked for over 40 years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
She began exhibiting her work in 1944. Her style and artistic development were strongly influenced by her husband, Alexander, and later by artists such as Jan Cybis and Jan Lebenstein. She was fascinated by Camille Pissarro and Maurice Utrillo.
In the 1950s, she began creating abstract paintings; she was fascinated by painting matter. Her painting was characterized by complex and dynamic compositions, sometimes organic, with strong texture, and sometimes decoratively infectious.
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Order of the Restoration of Poland (1976) [5]
Gold Cross of Merit (July 15, 1955) [6]
Medal for the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (January 19, 1955) [7]
Righteous Among the Nations Medal (posthumous, 2019) [2] [8]
Footnotes
Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka [online], www.altius.com.pl [accessed November 27, 2023].
Righteous Among the Nations [online], naTemat.pl [accessed November 27, 2023] (Polish).
Exhibition of paintings by Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka (exhibition catalog) Zachęta Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions, Warsaw, February-March 1959 [accessed 27-11-2023].
Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka, painting (exhibition catalog) Zachęta Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions, Warsaw, May 1969 [accessed 27-11-2023].
Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka, painting (exhibition catalog) Zachęta Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions, Warsaw, 1980 [accessed 27-11-2023].
M.P. from 1955, no. 96, item 1298 "On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of People's Poland for merits in culture and art."
M.P. from 1955, No. 101, item 1400 - Decision of the Council of State of 19 January 1955, No. 0/196 - at the request of the Minister of Culture and the Arts.
Yad Vashem Brief | Polish Righteousness [online], sprawiedliwi.org.pl [accessed on 27-11-2023].
Bibliography
A. Wojciechowski, Polskie malarstwo współczesne, Warsaw 1977, p. 98.
M. Sitkowska, Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka, [in:] Słownik malarzy polskich, vol. 2, Warsaw 2001, pp. 264–265.
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ConditionExcellentColorsBeigeMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeSmallHeight31 cmWidth27 cm
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