Size: 47.5 x 31.5 cm (in light of frame)
Signed p.d.: 'J.Tetmajer'
Biography
Jadwiga Tetmajer-Naimska was the eldest daughter of painter Włodzimierz Tetmajer and Anna Mikołajczykówna. Her person became the prototype for the character of Isia in the drama "The Wedding" by Stanislaw Wyspianski. Her parents made sure that Jadwiga received a thorough education. Thus, she graduated from the Helena Kaplinska Female High School in Krakow. At the same time, she took her first drawing and painting lessons under the tutelage of her father. Beginning around 1903, she further supplemented her education in this field under Józef Siedlecki, and later also at Maria Niedzielska's School of Fine Arts for Women in Cracow. In 1919 she traveled to Paris, where she accompanied her father, who went there as an expert for the Polish delegation to the peace conference. The artist's paintings are firmly rooted in the Young Poland tradition of atmospheric landscapes, as well as related to the stylistics of Włodzimierz Tetmajer's works, representing the peasant trend. Tetmajer-Naimska's works appeared in exhibitions as early as the era. The painter exhibited them, for example, in the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, in the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, as well as at the First Exhibition of Polish Women Artists in the Bydgoszcz City Museum in 1930. After marrying a major of the Polish Army cavalry, Ludwik Naimski, in 1922, the artist repeatedly changed her place of residence. She stayed in garrisons in Tarnow, Warsaw, Poznan and Vilnius, among others. In 1957 she emigrated to Great Britain, where she remained for the rest of her life. Later that year, her essay entitled "Bronowice Today" was published in the volume "Wyspianski Alive" published by the Association of Polish Writers Abroad.
