Janina Dłuska
Janina Dłuska | |
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| Born | 1899 |
| Died | 8 June 1932 |
| Alma mater | Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture |
| Style | portrait watercolor |
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Janina Dłuska (born 1899 Kursk – 8 June 1932 Vilnius) was a Polish artist, painter, nurse, and aviator.
Life[]
Janina Dłuska was born in 1899 in Kursk. 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 , 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[]
- ^ "osoba: Janina Dłuska". osoba: Janina Dłuska - osoba: Janina Dłuska - Osoby - Wiedza - HISTORIA: POSZUKAJ (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ "The exhibition #Heritage at the National Museum in Krakow". English. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
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
- 1899 births
- 1932 deaths
- People from Kursk Oblast
- Polish artists
- Polish aviators
- Women aviators
- Polish women artists
- Polish nurses