Wiktoria Goryńska
Wiktoria Julia Jadwiga Goryńska (6 July 1902 – 29 March 1945) was a Polish painter and graphic artist.
Also recorded as Wiktorya Goriniska · Wiktorja J. Gorynska
Wiktoria Goryńska

Wiktoria Goryńska · Public domain
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
- Birthplace
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Ravensbruck
- Born
- 6 July 1902
- Died
- 29 March 1945
- Nationality
- Poland.
- Occupation
- wood engraver and illustrator.
- Teachers
- Tadeusz Pruszkowski.
- Languages
- Polish.
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Wiktoria Julia Jadwiga Goryńska (6 July 1902 – 29 March 1945) was a Polish painter and graphic artist.
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Biography
Wiktoria Goryńska studied at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Kunstgewerbeschule. Training under Tadeusz Pruszkowski is recorded. The recorded working language is Polish. Work by Wiktoria Goryńska is recorded in the collections of Print Collection and National Gallery of Canada.

Siedzą od lewej: lekkoatletka i szermierka Camilla Mondral (Mądral), wiceprezes Polskiego Związku Szermierczego pułkownik Felicjan Płato Bałaban, florecistka i graficzka Wiktoria Goryńska, przewodniczący zebrania inspektor doktor Władysław Sobolewski.
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• Education — Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw • Birthplace — Vienna • Place of death — Ravensbruck • Born — 6 July 1902 • Died — 29 March 1945
Early life and education
Early life and education
Wiktoria Julia Jadwiga Goryńska was born on 6 July 1902 in Vienna to journalists Stanisława (née Markheim) and Maksymilian. She spent her childhood in Britain, and then returned with her parents to Vienna, where she studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (now the University of Applied Arts Vienna). In 1918 she moved to Warsaw, where she continued her education at the School of Fine Arts under the supervision of Konrad Krzyżanowski. Then she lived in Berlin for some time, returning to Warsaw, where she again studied at the Szkole Sztuk Pięknych (the School of Fine Arts), and in the studios of Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Władysław Skoczylas. She worked in the medium of woodcuts.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Pieta, Wiktoria Goryńska Goryńska belonged to Stowarzyszenia Artystów Grafików "RYT" the Association of Graphic Artists, an artistic group which ran between 1925 and 1939 in Warsaw with the aim of perfecting the art of woodcut. She was also a member of the Association of Polish Graphic Artists. In 1931, the first individual exhibition of Goryńska's work was held at Towarzystwie Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych (the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts). In 1932 she was awarded a gold medal at an exhibition in Florence for a Pieta woodcut and a silver medal for illustration in the book Sól polskiej ziemi (Salt on Polish soil) at the Art and Technology exhibition in Paris in 1937. She also wrote essays on art for both the Polish and foreign press, reviewed exhibitions and translated press texts. She gave lectures for Polish Americans on Polish Radio, the national public-service radio broadcasting organisation. Goryńska created religious, fantasy and animalistic woodcuts, dealt with book graphics, and by September 1939 had created over a hundred works. The collection of the National Museum in Warsaw holds 44 of her woodcut blocks. The British Museum holds 14 of her prints. Goryńska was one of the first women in Poland to practice fencing and wrote articles about it for the press.
World War Two
World War Two
During the Nazi occupation, she was active in the underground, using the pseudonym "Leti". From 1943, she was a liaison officer at the Main Headquarters of the Home Army, where she was assigned to Oddziału VI BiP of the Biuro Informacji i Propagandy (Division VI of BiP, the Information and Propaganda Office). She was a member of the editorial board of the Biuletyn Informacyjny. After the failure of the Warsaw Uprising, she was sent to a transit camp, and from there to the concentration camp in Ravensbrück, where she died.
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1902
Wiktoria Goryńska was born on 1 January 1902.
1944
Wiktoria Goryńska died at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Wiktorya Goriniska and Wiktorja J. Formation and teaching. Goryńska studied at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Kunstgewerbeschule. She trained under Władysław Skoczylas and Tadeusz Pruszkowski.
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