Stefania DRETLER-FLIN (1909-1994), Beautiful Krakow

Woodcut, paper; 16 x 11 cm (clear passe-partout).
Stefania Dretler-Flin (b. 1909, d. 1994) - Polish visual artist. She specialized in printmaking (linocut and woodcut) and after 1960 in ceramics and figural sculpture.
After studying art in Cracow, she trained at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. She made her debut in 1933 and was a member of the Group of Nine Graphic Artists. During the war she stayed in Lviv and Warsaw. She participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
Her spouse, Zygmunt Flin (1909-1993), a graduate of the Architecture Department of the Lviv Polytechnic, also practiced ceramic sculpture.
She was a member of the GROUP OF DAUGHTERS of the most prominent representatives of Polish wood engraving in postwar Poland.