Janina Nowotnowa

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Janina Nowotnowa from Vimpeller's house (born August 7, 1881 in Tarnów, died July 27, 1963 in Cracow) is a Polish painter and graphic designer.

She was the daughter of Roman Vimpellera, the teacher who was then the director of the Men's Teachers' Seminary in Tarnów and Maria Dundaczew. Soon the whole family moved to Cracow, where Roman Vimpeller received the post of director of the Women's Teachers' Seminary. After graduating from high school, Janina began to study in the piano class of the Cracow Conservatory. She also took private drawing and painting lessons.

In 1902, she married Julian Nowotny and moved to Lvov. She was associated with the local painting community, belonged to the Association of Artists of Malarek and Union of Lviv Graphic Artists. She dealt with oil and watercolor painting and as a graphic artist, woodcutter, linocut, drywall, mezzotint and aquatint. In the technique of woodcutting he made, among other illustrations, Emil Zegadłowicz's Powsinogów Beskidy.

During World War II, she spent time in the countryside near Biecz, after her death in Cracow. Still remaining active artistically, she belonged to the Association of Polish Artists and Artists Society Graffiti Artists in Cracow, exhibited in the gallery of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts and the Warsaw Zacheta. She died in 1963 and was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery.

Her works include, among others, the National Museums in Warsaw, Cracow and Wroclaw, Wroclaw's Ossolineum, the libraries of the Nicolaus Copernicus University and the Catholic University of Lublin. Bibliography

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