Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz

Anna Bilinska - Bohdanowicz (* 1857 in Złotopol, in today's Ukraine in the Oblast Kirowhrad, † April 18, 1893 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish painter and pupil Wojciech Gerson.

She was in town Zlotopol ( Ukr Златопіль ), now a part of Nowomyrhorod, born in the family of a Polish physician. Then she came to Vyatka (Russia, now Kirov) where she learned drawing at the Polish graphic artist Michal Elwiro Andriolli. 1875 she came to Warsaw. 1877 she studied in the private drawing class at Wojciech Gerson. In 1882 she traveled to Munich, Salzburg, Vienna and Italy. Then she came to Paris, where she studied at the Académie Julian - inter alia together with Marie Bashkirtseff - and also taught. 1892 she married the doctor Antoni Bohdanowicz and returned to Poland, where she succumbed with only 36 years of heart disease.

Works

• Self Portrait / Autoportret (1887 ), oil on canvas, 90 × 117 cm, National Museum, Cracow
• Self-portrait ( unfinished) (1892 ), oil on canvas, 113.5 × 163 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
• Street Unter den Linden (1890 ), oil on canvas, 60 × 82 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
• View from the window of the Conservatory (1890)
• Old man with book, (1880 ), oil on canvas, 81 × 69 cm, Lviv Art Gallery
• Black with golden chain, oil on canvas, 64 × 50.5 cm, Villa Grisebach auction in 2011, from 2012 National Museum of Warsaw
• Portrait of a Lady with Opera Glasses (1884 ), oil on canvas, 72 × 91 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
• Portrait of a Breton (1889 )
• Portrait of a young lady with Rose ( 1892)