Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
signed p.d.: 'PK'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Krystyna | Piotrowska | Hanna | Hirszfeld | 2025'.
Literature
"Doctor, scientist, social activist, independent woman of great courage.
Hanna Hirszfeldowa, née Kasman, is a great figure.
Born in 1884, she was able, as a woman, to overcome all barriers to acquiring medical knowledge and practicing both her scientific career and treating patients, especially children.
History did not spare her. The misfortunes she experienced she was able to transform for the good of science.
Hanna Hirszfeld's biography is an all-too-unbelievably positive one.
I chose her person to be the heroine of the portrait and tried very hard to show at least a fraction of the respect and admiration I have for her."
KRYSTYNA PIOTROWSKA
Biography
From 1966 to 1972 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Interior Design. From 1972 for three years she studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznan at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, and from 1985 to 1990 she studied at the Grafik Skolan Forum in Malmö, Sweden. In her art she combines the media of printmaking, photography and painting. She is also the creator of numerous installations and video works. The artist is known as a master of moving, stylized portraits, which she subjects to various transformations. In her work, she problematizes issues of memory, decay and disappearance, as well as her own Polish-Jewish identity.
