Ewa Kuryluk
Ewa Kuryluk (born May 5, 1946 in Krakow ) is a Polish art historian , artist and writer .
life and work
Born as the daughter of Karol Kuryluk (1910–1967), a Polish journalist and editor, Minister of Culture (1956–1958) and Ambassador of the People's Republic of Poland in Vienna (1959–1964). She attended a grammar school in Vienna, and back in Warsaw she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1964 to 1970 and art history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Thanks to her stay in Vienna, she was mainly interested in Austrian art from the turn of the 1900s. Her first book " Wiedeńska Apokalipsa " (Vienna Apocalypse) was published in 1974 (2nd expanded edition 1999). In 1976 her next book on the grotesque in Aubrey Beardsley's art was published .
Ewa Kuryluk was active in many fields of art: she created paintings and drawings, wrote poetry, prose and essays about art, including the poetry volumes "Kontur" (outline, 1979) and "Pani Anima" (Mrs. Anima, 1984). Towards the end of the 1970s, she abandoned easel painting in favor of high-precision, sharply outlined images (mostly male and female nudes) on textiles.
In addition, she wrote two novels " Wiek XXI " (The 21st Century, 1996) and " Grand Hotel Oriental " (1997). Kuryluk also dedicated a treatise " Weronika i jej chusta " (St. Veronica and her handkerchief , 1998) to the veil of Manoppello . Ewa Kuryluk emigrated to the United States in 1981 , where she lectured at several universities. After the fall of 1989, she returned to Poland. She showed her work in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s . Kuryluk has published two volumes of family history. She also got into photography.
In 2012 Kuryluk was awarded the Silver Medal for Cultural Merit Gloria Artis . She lives alternately in Paris and Warsaw.
A French documentary film was dedicated to Ewa Kuryluk: " Vera Icon, Ewa Kuryluk " (directed by Cederic Schiltz. 2009)
Fonts
- Goldi , Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2011 ISBN 978-8-30804583-1
- Veronica and Her Cloth: History, Symbolism, and Structure of a True Image , Blackwell Publishing, Hoboken (New Jersey), 1991 ISBN 978-0-63117813-2
- The Fabric of Memory: Cloth Works, 1978-1987 , Northwestern University Press, 1987 ISBN 978-0-81010795-3
- Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex: The Grotesque: Origins, Iconography, Techniques , Northwestern University Press, 1987 ISBN 978-0-81010795-3
Exhibitions
- 2016: Don't dream about love, Kuryluk , National Museum in Krakow
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the National Museum in Krakow
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuryluk, Ewa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter, author and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |