Olga Boznańska
First and last name
Olga Boznańska
Date of birth
1865, Cracow
Date of death
1940, Paris
Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter, portraitist, representative of Post-Impressionism, member of the Munich School, the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" and the Société nationale des beaux-arts. From her early years she studied drawing and painting under the guidance of Antoni Adam Piotrowski and Kazimierz Pochwalski, among others. In Munich she studied at the private schools of Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr. She became most famous for her portraits, concentrating on psychological portraits. She often painted on lightly primed cardboard, resigning from covering her paintings with varnish. Some of Boznanska's paintings on the Polish antiquarian market reached the price of over a million Polish zlotys.
