Boznańska show proves a crowd-puller

Boznańska remains on show until 2 May and to cater for a large number of visitors the Museum is open until 9 p.m. three days a week.

Wednesday 15 April marked the 150th anniversary of Boznańska’s birth. One of the most prominent female artists of the first half of the last century, she was born in Kraków, studied in Munich, spent most of her life abroad and died in Paris in 1940.

Boznańska was first and foremost, however, a portrait painter, and according to the director of the National Museum, Agnieszka Morawińska, her works are renowned for “the intense presence of the model and for their expressionistic effects which are achieved using impressionistic means”. (mk/jb)