Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa | |
Birth Name: | Hanna Rudzka |
Birth Date: | 27 June 1897 |
Birth Place: | Mława, Poland |
Death Place: | Kraków, Poland |
Nationality: | Polish |
Field: | Painting |
Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1897-1988) was a Polish artist and teacher.
Rudzka-Cybisowa was born on 27 June 1897 in Mława, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she was taught by . In 1923 Rudzka-Cybisowa became a student of the Polish Impressionist Józef Pankiewicz. In 1924 she traveled to Paris along with a group of Polish students who named themselves the Komitet Paryski (the Paris Committee, also called the Kapists). The same year she married the painter Jan Cybis (1897-1972) who was also part of the Komitet Paryski.[1] The couple stayed in France from 1924 through 1931.[2]
From 1931 through 1933 Rudzka-Cybisowa lived in Kraków, returning for a time to Paris where she had a solo show at the Renaissance Gallery. In 1934 her work was included in a Kapists' group show at the Warszawskim Instytucie Propagandy Sztuki (Warsaw Art Propaganda Institute). Rudzka-Cybisowa remained in Poland through the Nazi occupation, continuing to paint. After the liberation she began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw . The Academy was reestablished after the Warsaw Uprising.[3] She taught there until her retirement in 1967.[1] She was active in the Krakowskiego Okręgu Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków (Krakow District of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers).[4]
In 1971 the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum) in Poznań held a retrospective of her work.[4] Rudzka-Cybisowa died on 3 February 1988 in Kraków.[1]