Janina Konarska

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Janina Konarska (around 1930)
Grave of Janina Konarska, Antoni Słonimski and daughter Hanka in Laski

Janina Konarska ( pseudonym ), actually Janina Seideman , married Janina Konarska-Słonimska (born April 30, 1900 in Łódź ; † June 9, 1975 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter.

Life

Janina Seideman was born into a family of Jewish textile manufacturers. Through her aunt Helena Seideman, she was related to the manufacturer Edward Heiman-Jarecki and his son Aleksander Heiman-Jarecki. She studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in the graphics class with Władysław Skoczylas . In 1918 she took the stage name Konarska.

In 1932 Konarska took part in the art competitions of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with the woodcut stadium and won the silver medal in the "Graphics" competition.

In 1934 she married the writer Antoni Słonimski and fled with him during the German-Soviet occupation of Poland in 1939 to Paris and in 1940 to Great Britain. They did not return to Poland until 1951.

Konarska and Słonimski are buried in the Laski cemetery.

Illustrations

  • Jan Parandowski (ed.): Pieć dramatów . Illustrations by Janina Konarska. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczny, 1955 [5 dramas].

Web links

Commons : Janina Konarska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932. Official Report ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1933, p. 758  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / olympic-museum.de
personal data
SURNAME Konarska, Janina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konarska-Słonimska, Janina; Seideman, Janina (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1975
Place of death Warsaw