Olga Boznanska - Artist Info

About Olga Boznanska

  • Biography

    Olga Boznanska (April 15, 1865 – October 26, 1940) was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable female painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism.

    Boznanska was born in Kraków during foreign partitions of Poland. She was the daughter of a railway engineer, Adam Nowina Boznanski, and Eugenia née Mondan of French origin. Boznanska learned drawing first with Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski locally. She studied at the Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. She débuted in 1886 at the Kraków Association of Friends of Fine Arts exhibition.

    From 1886–1890 she studied art in the private schools of Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr in Munich. From then on...

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