Anna Nadolska

Participation of women painters from Lviv in the First Exhibition of Women Artists in Bydgoszcz (1930)

Abstract: Between 1920-1939 Bydgoszcz was a big city in the northern-western part ofthe Second Polish Republic. After 148 years of Prussian Partition, after the implementation of the Treaty of Versailles, Bydgoszcz was incorporated into Poland. Then, most Germans and Jews migrated to the Weimar Republic, and Polish people replaced them. Fast polonization and repolonization political live and social-cultural live city along Brda river. In the 30s of the XX century, Bydgoszcz and Poznań were "most Polish among Polish cities". Brda river and Bydgoszcz Canal helped of the development industry, transport, trade, and service. In multicultural Bydgoszcz in 1931 more than 117.000 people lived: beside Polish people lived Germans, Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, and Czechs. In the city, cultural life was very important, for example, City Theatreand City Library. Municipal Museum was a very important cultural institution in Bydgoszcz. This museum invited many famous artists from different cultural centres in Poland. Women artists – painters, graphics and sculptors – were includedin this exhibition. In 1930 Municipal Museum arranged the First Exhibition of Women Artists. During this exhibition works of women painters from the Women Union of Polish Artists from Lviv were presented. The article is a study of the participation of Zofii Albinowskiej-Minkiewiczowej (1886-1971), Anieli Czarnowskiej (1879-1978) and Marii Wodzickiej (1878-1966) in this exhibition. The article is also a biography of these artists and they activity in the Women Union of Polish Artists from Lviv, as well the activity of Municipal Museum in Bydgoszcz and the concept of an exhibition of women artists.

Keywords: women painters from Lviv, Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa, Aniela Czarnowska, Maria Wodzicka, Municipal Museum in Bydgoszcz, the exhibition of women artists, Interwar period.

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• Anna Nadolska (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Bydgoszcz, Polska), [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4063-7431

Cite:
Anna Nadolska (2020). Participation of women painters from Lviv in the First Exhibition of Women Artists in Bydgoszcz (1930). Biographistica Ukrainica, (20) 104-117. https://doi.org/10.15407/ub.20.104

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