Ludwika Nitschowa

Studies under Leon Wyczółkowski, then at Maria Niedzielska’s School of Fine Arts for Women completed in 1910. After the Great War she started studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the studio of Prof Tadeusz Breyer, which she completed in 1926. Full professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, 1950-1960 (or 1950-1962). In 1927 she established the Association of Sculptors ‘Forma’, realizing commissions for tombstones, religious and architectural sculptures, as well as  portraits busts. She took part in competitions for monuments and in exhibitions in Poland and abroad, inter alia: in the International Exhibition of Women’s Art, Paris, 1935; World Exhibition, New York, 1939; International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Paris, 1961. Author of monuments, inter alia: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Warsaw, 1935; the Warsaw Mermaid, 1938; Nicolas Copernicus, Warsaw, 1955 (1st Prize and realization); Chopin, Manchester, England, 1973; Author of monuments, small scale sculptures and paintings.