Designed by Maria JANOWSKA (b. 1929), "Home" Kilim

wool, 121 x 100.5 cm (138 cm including fringes)
Preserved label: Coopexim/ Dom / Designer: Janowska / Weaver: Przybyłewicz

Maria Janowska (b. Warsaw, 1929). From 1947 to 1951, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Department of Textiles—Prof. Eleonora Plutyńska and Mieczysław Szymański); graduated in 1953. Her work focuses on textiles (kilims, tapestries). From 1951 to 1967, she was a designer at the IWP; from 1967 to 1977, she was a designer at the CBWPL. She has collaborated with Cepelia since 1953.
Solo exhibitions:
1964 Kordegarda Gallery, CBWA, Warsaw (together with Wojciech Sadley, Zofia Butrymowicz, and Danuta Eysmont-Szarras),
1975 “Confrontations,” Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź; BWA Salon, Koszalin,
1975 Old Kordegarda, TPSP, Warsaw.
She received numerous awards in Cepelia’s competitions and exhibitions for artistic textiles. Gold Medal at the Munich Fair (1962), gold medal at the exhibition “Visual Artists in the Cepelia Circle” in Warsaw (1973).