Aniela Pająkówna

Aniela Pająkówna (1864, Medyka - 24 April 1912, Paris) was a Polish painter; mostly of portraits.

Thanks to the generosity of his employers, the journalist and political activist Mieczysław Gwalbert Pawlikowski [pl] and his wife Helena (née Dzieduszycka), she was able to study art; first in Kraków with Florian Cynk then, after 1886, in Paris at the Académie Julian[failed verification] and the Académie Colarossi with Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner.

[1] The following year, she began to exhibit with the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts and participated in a major show at the Cloth Hall in 1899.

She also exhibited abroad; notably at the Vienna Künstlerhaus and the Salon des Indépendants.

[1] In 1907, facing discrimination for being a single mother with an illegitimate child, she and her daughter began moving about; first to Vienna, then Zürich and Munich, finally settling in Paris in 1909.