Janina Reichert-Toth (1895 Stary Sambor - 1986 Krakow), Head of an angel, 1925

Origin
the artist's legacy
DESA Unicum, March 2019
private collection, Poland

Literature
compare Karolina Grodziska, Forgotten sculptor. Janina Reichert-Toth (1895-1986) and her work, Krakow 2009, p. 46 (il.)

Biography
Lviv sculptor. She was one of the first women to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Professor Konstanty Laszczka. After three years of study, she returned to Lviv, where she became one of the leading female sculptors. She realized numerous decorations for churches (St. Elizabeth in Lviv, in Polanka near Krosno, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ternopil) and monuments (including the bust of Jozef Pilsudski, the "Monument to the Fallen" in Brzeżany, Maria Konopnicka in Lviv). The war destroyed almost all of her artistic output. After 1945, she and her husband, sculptor Frederick Toth, lived in Cracow, where she died in 1986.