Janina KRAUPE-ŚWIDERSKA (1921-2016), Untitled, 1960s.

linocut on fabric, 38 x 53 cm;
Signed l. d.: J. Kraupe.

Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland,
in the studios of easel painting, monumental painting
and graphic arts. Since 1948 she worked at her alma mater,
where she received the title of full professor in 1987.
An artist associated with the Cracow Group and inspired by
Oneiron Group in Katowice, among others, inspired by Buddhism.
The painter and graphic artist was also interested in the culture of the
Far East and the Zen philosophy derived from it.
Her works are associated with symbolic recording of things
imagined. The artist also documented
the passing of phenomena, images and feelings. Her works are
oneiric transformations of real experiences.