Margit Sielska-Reich
Margit Sielska-Reich (Ukrainian: Марія Сельська, romanized: Mariia Selska; 26 May 1900 – 3 February 1980) was a Polish-Ukrainian painter who worked in Lviv.[2][3]
Margit Sielska-Reich | |
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 Sielska-Reich in 1939 | |
| Born | Margit Reich 23 June 1900 |
| Died | 3 February 1980 (aged 79) |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, graphic designer |
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The daughter of Laura and Isaak Reich, she began studying painting at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv with Leonard Podhorodecki, Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski and Edward Pietsch.[4] From 1920 to 1922, she continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with Ignacy Pieńkowski , Władysław Jarocki and Henryk Kunzek. From 1925, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and then in Paris in the studios of Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. Léger's works in particular influenced her painting. In Paris, she met her future husband, a Lviv painter, Roman Sielski. In 1929, she returned with him to Lviv. Together with Roman, she was a co-founder of the Association of Artists and Designers " artes ". From 1930 to 1932, they participated in twelve exhibitions in Lviv, Ternopil, Stanisławów, Warsaw, Kraków and Łódź.
The influence of surrealism appeared in her paintings. She collaborated with the left-wing monthly " Sygnały ". In 1937, she visited Paris again. She spent the period of World War 2 in Lviv. In 1942 she was arrested by the Gestapo, with her father and brother and his wife, and was taken to the Lviv ghetto.[5] She survived hiding in the studio of the painter Sascha Wynnytzky .
After the Second World War, she stayed with her husband in Lviv. She became a member of the art group Tow, and took part in exhibitions in Lviv, Kyiv and Moscow, most of them being portraits and natural landscapes. Most of her works are in Lviv in museums and private collections. Upon her death she was buried in Lyczakowski Cemetery.[6]
Work
Margit Sielska-Reich specialized in portraiture and painting landscapes.[6] Much of her work was shown in exhibitions, and still is held in them to this day.
References
- "Selska, Margit". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- Spain), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid (2011). Un mundo construido: Polonia, 1918-1939 (in Spanish). Círculo de Bellas Artes. ISBN 978-84-87619-85-4.
- Borzymińska, Zofia (2003). Polski słownik judaistyczny: dzieje, kultura, religia, ludzie (in Polish). Wydawn. Prószyński i S-ka. ISBN 978-83-7255-175-7.
- Hlembotska, Halyna (2003). Images of a Vanished World: The Jews of Eastern Galicia, from the Mid-19th Century to the First Third of the 20th Century : Exhibition Catalogue from the Collections of the Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv Museum of History, Museum of Ethnography and Crafts, Museum of Religious History, Private Collections. "Centre of Europe" Publishing House. ISBN 978-966-7022-53-2.
- Simon, Hermann; Stratenwerth, Irene; Hinrichs, Ronald (2007). Lemberg: eine Reise nach Europa (in German). Ch. Links Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86153-459-4.
- "Margit Sielska (Reich-Sielska)". www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl.