Maria Jarema

Maria Jarema studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The recorded working language is Polish. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture, painting and scenography. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Maria Jarema is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Kraków.

• Name — Maria Jarema • Birth Name — Maria Jaremianka • Born — 24 November 1908 • Birthplace — Staryi Sambir, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (currently Ukraine) • Died — 1 November 1958 • Place of death — Kraków, Polish People's Republic • Spouse — Kornel Filipowicz • Field — painting, sculpture • Training — Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts • Works — Penetracje (Penetrations) Rytmy (Rhythms) Formy (Forms) Głowy (Heads)

• Illustration — Maria Jarema, Abstract composition, 1956

She was born on 24 November 1908 in Staryi Sambir (Polish: Stary Sambor) in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (currently Ukraine). In the years 1929–1935, she studied sculpture at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, under supervision of Xawery Dunikowski. In 1932, she co-founded the avant-garde, radical left Kraków Group. Jarema was an outspoken leftist during the interwar period and supported labor movements in Poland and abroad. She also designed a memorial in Kraków for socialists and communist activists killed during the 1934 Paris strikes. She was one of the founders of the avant-garde theatre Cricot (1933–1938) alongside Józef Jarema, Henryk Gotlib and Zbigniew Pronaszko.

Before the outbreak of World War II, Jarema worked primarily as a sculptor but after 1945 she focused on painting. Following the period of Socialist Realism in Poland and as a result of the subsequent Thaw, she turned to abstraction. Since 1951, she created monotypes. Using this printmaking technique and sometimes combining it with oil paints and distemper, she created her most famous cycles of paintings: Penetracje (Penetrations) and Rytmy (Rhythms). Her works reflected an engagement with the human form and its place in space as well as the depiction of movement in painting. Balancing between anthropomorphic and abstract forms is also a distinctive feature of her postwar work. Beyond painting, Jarema continued her artistic collaboration with Tadeusz Kantor and his experimental theatre Cricot 2. In 1955, Jarema was diagnosed with leukemia and later received treatment in Paris. In 1958, her works were shown at the Polish pavilion at the 29th Venice Biennale. Her health deteriorated that summer and she underwent an experimental bone marrow transplant in October. Jarema died in Kraków on November 1, 1958, from complications from leukemia.

She was a sister of painter Józef Jarema and actor Władysław Jarema, the founder of the Groteska Theatre in Kraków. She married novelist and short story writer Kornel Filipowicz.

Maria Jarema is recorded with the occupation theatre designer. Jarema worked at Paris. Recorded as having studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Maria Jaremianka. Her recorded language was Polish. She married Kornel Filipowicz.