FIGURATIVE PAINTERS
Olga Boznanska : paintings
Olga Boznanska : paintings
 
 
  
 
  
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Olga Boznanska is a Polish woman painter and was born in Mora on 15 April 1865 in Kraków. daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learnt drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski, she was also a student of Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. From 1886-1890 studied in private schools of Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr in Munich. Since then devotes herself mostly to portraits, still lives and occasionally landscapes. Her most famous portrait of a child Girl with Chrysanthemums fascinated her contemporaries by its symbolist atmosphere and psychological insight. In 1938 she was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.Olga died on 26 October 1940 in Paris.
