Krystyna Wróblewska(1904-1994),Mater Dolorosa

Woodcut, paper; 20 x 13 cm (light passe-partout).

Krystyna Wróblewska, (born March 4, 1904, died December 4, 1994. - Polish graphic artist, wife of the rector of Vilnius University, Bronislaw Wróblewski.Graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Stefan Batory University, where she studied under Ludomir Slendzinski and Jerzy Hoppen, among others (graduated in 1937).Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and the Association of Polish Artists.
She belonged to the Group of Nine Graphic Artists, bringing together the most prominent representatives of Polish wood engraving in postwar Poland.The work was printed in Anczyc's printing house in Cracow by Jozef Molenda, from original pear blocks. The artist's creative path was mainly associated with the traditions of classicism, realism and expressionism, as well as the woodcut technique. She also became famous for her ex-librises exhibited all over the world.