Helena LANG (1874-1967), Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, sig. p.g. HELENA LANG, size 56 x 52 cm, frame size 66 x 61 cm.
Painter, associated with Lviv artistic community. She was educated at the Lviv Industrial School (1889-1892) and at the Kaczor-Batowski private drawing school. She continued her studies in Munich. She made her debut in 1914 at the First Spring Salon of TPSP in Lviv. She taught drawing in Lviv schools. From 1917 to 1937 she was a member of the Association of Polish Women Artists, actively participating in all its exhibitions. During the occupation she belonged to the Union of Painters of Ukraine. After the war, she settled in Tarnow. She was a good portrait painter and also painted still lifes.
