Janina Kraupe-Świderska

Janina Kraupe-Świderska (27 January 1921 – 3 March 2016) was a Polish painter and printmaker.

A native of Sosnowiec, Kraupe-Świderska was associated for much of her career with the avant-garde of Kraków, especially the group which had formed around the city's Kunstgewerbeschule during World War II; eventually she numbered Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Brzozowski, , and Jerzy Nowosielski among her acquaintances. From 1957 she belonged to the Grupa Krakowska. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, eventually returning to the institution as a lecturer and professor and remaining on the faculty until 1980. A 1997 print by Kraupe-Świderska is owned by the National Gallery of Art, and she is represented in the collection of the Olomouc Museum of Art.