Teresa Żarnowerówna
Teresa Żarnowerówna (1897, Warsaw – 1949, New York) was a Polish avant-garde artist, painter, sculptor, scenographer and architect.
In the years 1915-1920 she studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in Edward Wittig’s studio. She collaborated with Mieczyslaw Szczuka; together they shown their works at the New Art Exhibition in Vilnius (1923) and at Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. In 1926 she participated in the International Exhibition of Modern Art in Bucharest, and in the First International Exhibition of Architecture in Warsaw. She was a member and co-founder of the Warsaw art group Blok, associated with the magazine of the same name of which she was a co-editor. She also co-edited Dźwignia avant-garde magazine. She left Poland in 1937, and spent the last years of her life in the U.S.
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Works
Vote for the Unity of Workers and Peasants, 1928, photomontage.
Catalogues
- Artystka końca utopii, eds. Milada Ślizińska and Andrzej Turowski, Lodz: Museum Sztuki, 2014, 524 pp. [1] (Polish)/(English)
Literature
- Ewa Glubinska, "Teresa Żarnower (Żarnowerówna)", 21 Nov 2014. (Polish)
