Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine).[1][2] She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer.[3] she studied at the Wiener Frauenakademie [de] in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.[4] She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group.[5]
Rosenstein's parents were murdered after escaping Warsaw in 1942.[6] Rosenstein survived World War II, hiding under various aliases.[4]
After the war, Rosenstein co-founded the Second Kraków Group.[5] In 1955 she was included in the exhibit Nine Artists along with fellow artist Tadeusz Brzozowski, Maria Jarema, Tadeusz Kantor, Jadwiga Maziarska [pl], Kazimierz Mikulski [pl], Jerzy Nowosielski, Jerzy Skarżyński, and Jonasz Stern [pl].[4] In 1967 a retrospective of her work was held at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.[3]
Rosenstein's brother, the Austrian professor Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan went on to become a Boston University professor and economist. He coined the term "underdeveloped countries". She was married to Polish-Jewish literary critic Artur Sandauer.[citation needed] Rosenstein died on November 10, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland.[4]
Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago[7] In 2021 the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York held her first solo exhibition outside of Poland, entitled Once Upon a Time.[8][9][10] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[11]
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^Michalska, Dorota Jagoda (9 March 2023). "Where the Lightnings Have Their Palace: Erna Rosenstein and Global Surrealisms". post. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
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^Brock, Peter (9 November 2021). "Erna Rosenstein's Dreamlike Forms Resist Interpretation". Frieze (224). Retrieved 28 April 2023.
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