Erna Rosenstein

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Erna Rosenstein, Eternity Gives Birth to the Moment

Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine).<ref name="RKD">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="A Women’s Thing">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer.<ref name="AWARE">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> she studied at the Template:Ill in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.<ref name="Culture.pl">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group.<ref name="Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rosenstein's parents were murdered after escaping Warsaw in 1942.<ref name="post">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rosenstein survived World War II, hiding under various aliases.<ref name="Culture.pl"/>

After the war, Rosenstein co-founded the Second Kraków Group.<ref name="Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw"/> In 1955 she was included in the exhibit Nine Artists along with fellow artist Tadeusz Brzozowski, Maria Jarema, Tadeusz Kantor, Template:Ill, Template:Ill, Jerzy Nowosielski, Jerzy Skarżyński, and Template:Ill.<ref name="Culture.pl"/> In 1967 a retrospective of her work was held at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.<ref name="AWARE"/>

Rosenstein's brother, the Austrian professor Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan went on to become a Boston University professor and economist. He coined the term "underdeveloped countries". She was married to Polish-Jewish literary critic Artur Sandauer.Template:Citation needed Rosenstein died on November 10, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland.<ref name="Culture.pl"/>

Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago<ref name="Art Institute of Chicago">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2021 the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York held her first solo exhibition outside of Poland, entitled Once Upon a Time.<ref name="The New Yorker">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Frieze">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Art Forum">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.<ref name="Whitechapel Gallery">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• Erna Rosenstein Bio
• Obituary from the Los Angeles Times