Zofia STANKIEWICZ, Cottage Abandoned

Aquatint, paper, 11.8 x 19.7 cm, signed in pencil d.: Zofia Stankiewicz Chata opuszczona, before 1911.

Painter and graphic artist. She began her painting studies in Kharkov with the landscape painter J.J Schreider, continued at the Warsaw Drawing School of W. Gerson, and then in Paris at the Académie Julian, where she mainly studied landscape. After returning to Warsaw, she studied at the local SSP, including under Konrad Krzyzanowski. In 1905 she was imprisoned in the Pawiak prison for her patriotic activities. She exhibited at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery, TPSP in Lvov, and collaborated with the editors of "Kłosy" and "Tygodnik Ilustrowany". In 1929, at the General National Exhibition in Poznań, she received a great silver medal. Much of the artist's painting output was lost in 1939. The subjects of her paintings were mainly landscapes, most often from her native Ukraine, views of Pomerania, urban architecture, from graphic techniques she practiced etching and aquatint.