Her older brother Stanisław Janowski (1866–1942), a second husband of famous dramatist Gabriela Zapolska, was also a painter; he taught her the basics of art-making.

[2] She traveled to Italy, North Africa, and Turkey, and stayed in Rome, Naples, and Sicily, painting landscapes, street scenes, and figurative studies.

[2] She became an active member of the Zielony Balonik Cabaret at Jama Michalika in Kraków as well as art cabarets in Lwów, designing and producing political puppets for widely popular shows against imperial censorship.

She settled in Kraków at A. Dunajewskiego 1 Street in 1917,[4] towards the end of World War I,[3] and continued her artistic journey in sovereign Poland.

[4]Rychter-Janowska stopped painting during World War II due to vision-related problems.