Janina Dłuska (born 1899 Kursk – 8 June 1932 Vilnius) was a Russian Empire-born Polish artist, painter, nurse, and aviator.

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Janina Dłuska
Born	1899 Kursk, Russian Empire
Died	8 June 1932
Alma mater	Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Style	portrait watercolor
Family	Maria Dłuska

Biography

Janina Dłuska was born in 1899 in Kursk, Russian Empire (present-day Russia). She graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1919 she returned to Poland, and during the Polish-Soviet war, she served as a nurse in the Voluntary Legion of Women . After the war, she worked as a drawing teacher at the women's teachers' college in Lublin.

In 1922, she moved to Munich, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich for 3 years, then studied in Paris. She specialized in portrait watercolor. She worked for magazines such as Vogue or Die Dame.[1]

In 1931, she returned to Vilnius. She became interested in aviation, active in the Vilnius Aeroclub. She completed a pilot course and was to begin practical glider training, but on 8 June 1932, she died in a plane crash.

Family

Her sister was Maria Dłuska, a linguist from the Jagiellonian University . In 1954, Maria Dłuska donated a part of her sister's artistic legacy to the National Museum, Krakow.[2]

References

Further reading

• Marian Romeyko : In Honor of Fallen Aviators Memorial Book . Warsaw: Publishing House of the Committee for the Construction of the Monument to the Fallen Airmen, 1933, p. 375

На других языках

[fr] Janina Dłuska

[ru] Длуская, Янина