She was born on 24 November 1908 in Staryi Sambir (Polish: Stary Sambor) in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (currently Ukraine).

In the years 1929–1935, she studied sculpture at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, under supervision of Xawery Dunikowski.

Her works show a great fascination with the human shape and its place in space as well as the depiction of movement in painting.

She was one of the founders of the avant-garde theatre Cricot (1933–1938) alongside Józef Jarema, Henryk Gotlib and Zbigniew Pronaszko.

[2][3] Her paintings have been exhibited in a number of museums in Poland including the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.