| Erna Rosenstein | |
| Birth Date: | May 17, 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Lviv, Austria-Hungary |
| Death Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
| Field: | painter, poet |
Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine).[1] [2] She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer.[3] she studied at the in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.[4] She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group.[5]
Rosenstein's parents were murdered after escaping Warsaw in 1942.[6] Rosenstein survived World War II, hiding under various aliases.[4]
After the war, Rosenstein co-founded the Second Kraków Group.[5] In 1955 she was included in the exhibit Nine Artists along with fellow artist Tadeusz Brzozowski, Maria Jarema, Tadeusz Kantor,,, Jerzy Nowosielski, Jerzy Skarżyński, and .[4] In 1967 a retrospective of her work was held at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.[3]
Rosenstein's brother, the Austrian professor Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan went on to become a Boston University professor and economist. He coined the term "underdeveloped countries". She was married to Polish-Jewish literary critic Artur Sandauer. Rosenstein died on November 10, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland.[4]
Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago[7] In 2021 the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York held her first solo exhibition outside of Poland, entitled Once Upon a Time.[8] [9] [10] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[11]