Olga Boznańska

Autoportrait, 1893

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

Daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learned drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski and studied at the Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. From 1886-1890 she studied in private schools of Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr in Munich. From then on she devoted herself mostly to portraits, still lifes and occasionally landscapes. In 1898 she moved to Paris. Her most famous portrait of a child Girl with Chrysanthemums fascinated her contemporaries by its symbolist atmosphere and psychological insight.

Boznańska received the French Legion of Honour in 1912, the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Academic Literature in 1936 and in 1938 she was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.

External links

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

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Name	Boznanska, Olga
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Date of birth	15 April 1865
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Date of death	26 October 1940
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