Marta KREMER (1941), Painting with the Muse

oil, tempera, paper, 30 x 23 cm,
signed p.d. Marta Kremer, on the back of the binding author's description and stamp.


Marta KREMER (1941)
Polish painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow , diploma in 1966 in the Department of Copperplate under Prof. M. Wejman. Kremer's first awarded works were illustrations to several short stories by Franz Kafka. Soon after, these engravings were included in the German publication "Kafka in der Kunst" ("Kafka in Art") by Wolfgang Rothe. The artist has participated in more than 70 exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Austria, Norway, France, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Finland, Italy, Venezuela, Cuba, Turkey, Iran and Australia. On December 2, 1975, Marta Kremer arrived in New York at the invitation of the Kosciuszko Foundation, the American Center for Polish Culture. After living in Greenwich Village for a year, Kremer moved to West Virginia. In 1998, she returned to Poland. She currently lives and works in Cracow.