Olga Boznańska

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Olga Boznańska (15 April 1865 in Kraków – 26 October 1940 in Paris), Polish woman painter.

Daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learnt drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski, she was also a student of Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. From 1886-1890 studied in private schools of Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr in Munich. Since then devotes herself mostly to portraits, still lives and occasionally landscapes. Her most famous portrait of a child Girl with Chrysanthemums fascinated her contemporaries by its symbolist atmosphere and psychological insight.

In 1938 she was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.

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• More paintings by Olga Boznańska
• Numerous paintings by Olga Boznańska including Girl with Chrysanthemums