Janina Dłuska
Janina Dłuska (born 1899 – 8 June 1932), was a Russian Empire-born Polish visual artist, nurse, and aviator. She was known for her paintings.
Janina Dłuska | |
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| Born | 1899 |
| Died | 8 June 1932 plane crash |
| Alma mater | Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture |
| Style | portrait watercolor |
| Family | Maria Dłuska |
Biography
Janina Dłuska was born in 1899 in Kursk, Russian Empire (present-day Russia). She graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1919 she returned to Poland, and during the Polish-Soviet war, she served as a nurse in the Voluntary Legion of Women. After the war, she worked as a drawing teacher at the women's teachers' college in Lublin. In 1922, she moved to Munich, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich for 3 years, then studied in Paris. She specialized in portrait watercolor. She worked for magazines such as Vogue or Die Dame.[1]
In 1931, she returned to Vilnius. She became interested in aviation, active in the Vilnius Aeroclub. She completed a pilot course and was to begin practical glider training, but on 8 June 1932, she died in a plane crash.
Family
Her sister was Maria Dłuska, a linguist from the Jagiellonian University.
In 1954, Maria Dłuska donated a part of her sister's artistic legacy to the National Museum, Krakow.[2]
References
- Dzimira-Zarzycka, Karolina. "Moda, Sztuka I Samoloty: Zbyt Krótka Kariera Janiny Dłuskiej" [Fashion, Art and Planes: Janina Dłuska's Career Is Too Short]. Historia Poszukaj (in Polish). Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- "The exhibition #Heritage at the National Museum in Krakow". Niepodlegla. Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. 7 July 2017. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
Further reading
- Marian Romeyko: In Honor of Fallen Aviators Memorial Book. Warsaw: Publishing House of the Committee for the Construction of the Monument to the Fallen Airmen, 1933, p. 375