Erna Rosenstein

Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine).[1][2] She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer.[3] she studied at the Wiener Frauenakademie in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.[4] She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group.[5]

Erna Rosenstein
Born(1913-05-17)May 17, 1913
Lviv, Austria-Hungary
DiedNovember 10, 2004(2004-11-10) (aged 91)
Warsaw, Poland
Known forpainter, poet
Erna Rosenstein, Eternity Gives Birth to the Moment

Rosenstein's parents were murdered after escaping Warsaw in 1942.[6] Rosenstein survived World War II, hiding under various aliases.[4]

After the war, Rosenstein co-founded the Second Kraków Group.[5] In 1955 she was included in the exhibit Nine Artists along with fellow artist Tadeusz Brzozowski, Maria Jarema, Tadeusz Kantor, Jadwiga Maziarska, Kazimierz Mikulski, Jerzy Nowosielski, Jerzy Skarżyński, and Jonasz Stern.[4] In 1967 a retrospective of her work was held at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.[3]

Rosenstein's brother, the Austrian professor Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan went on to become a Boston University professor and economist. He coined the term "underdeveloped countries". She was married to Polish-Jewish literary critic Artur Sandauer. Rosenstein died on November 10, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland.[4]

Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago[7] In 2021 the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York held her first solo exhibition outside of Poland, entitled Once Upon a Time.[8][9][10] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[11]

References
  1. "Erna Rosenstein". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. "Post-War Artist Erna Rosenstein: Exploring Surrealism, Trauma, and Whimsy". A Women’s Thing. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. "Erna Rosenstein". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. "Erna Rosenstein". Culture.pl. Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  5. "Erna Rosenstein, Appeal of the Polish Workers' Party (1942)". Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  6. Michalska, Dorota Jagoda (9 March 2023). "Where the Lightnings Have Their Palace: Erna Rosenstein and Global Surrealisms". post. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  7. "Night (Noc)". Art Institute of Chicago. 1993. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  8. "Erna Rosenstein". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  9. Brock, Peter (9 November 2021). "Erna Rosenstein's Dreamlike Forms Resist Interpretation". Frieze (224). Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  10. Kuspit, Donald. "Donald Kuspit on Erna Rosenstein". Art Forum. Retrieved 28 April 2023.

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