She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with Prof. Xawery Dunikowskiego in 1945-47, and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Prof. Francis Strynkiewicz in 1947-1952. In 1951-54 she participated in the reconstruction of ancient sculptures in Warsaw. Co-founder of the avant-garde Group of 55. The creator of figural sculptures, many portraits, spatial compositions, monuments. Her style has evolved from realism (the famous sculpture of a street vendor in the Warsaw Mariensztat 1949), the synthetic simplification and expressive and metaphorical deformation to abstraction. The overriding principle of her creative work was seeing reality through human existence. This was due not on...