About Wanda Gołkowska
Lived 1925 – 2013 (aged 87). Wanda Gołkowska was a Polish painter and teacher.
Wanda Gołkowska (17 December 1925 – 7 August 2013) was a Polish artist.
Background Gołkowska was born on 17 December 1925, in Rzeszów. She attended the primary school in Grajewo. In 1946, Gołkowska started studying at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Torun, but she and her family moved to Wrocław in the same year. From 1946 to 1952, Gołkowska studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, in the studio of Eugeniusz Geppert. In 1991, she became a full professor at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts. Between 1953 and 2006, Gołkowska took part in around 300 group exhibitions, and events, and presented over 30 individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She died on 7 August 2013, in Wrocław.
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Who was Wanda Gołkowska?
Polish painter (1925-2013)
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Wanda Gołkowska was born on 17 December 1925 in Rzeszów.
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Wanda Gołkowska died on 7 August 2013 in Wrocław.
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Wanda Gołkowska was a painter and teacher.
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Wanda Gołkowska was Polish.
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