| dc.description.abstract | The present article is concerned with the person of Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann (1917–1980)
and her activities in the field of book illustrating. Although she deserved the title of a ,,book
artist’’. Her body of work has never been researched into at a more scientific i.e. book knowledge
angle. This is the main reasu why the present article tries to examine Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann’s
works of art. Because of the fact that her illustratory heritage turns out to be very ample, the
present article limits itself to her book illustrations.
The main conclusion of the research is that Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann was mainly interested
in the Middle Ages and that is why she most of all illustrated books on the problems of the
period, including general literature of the time as well as historical books on the epoch.
She created mainly wood engravings. She is renowned for illustrating works of such authors
as F. Villon, G. Lorca, Z. Kossak, R. Brandstaetter. She also worked on famous poems and legend
collections of the Middle Ages.
For the long time she co-opereted with such publishing houses as ,,Książka i Wiedza’’,
,,Czytelnik’’, ,,Nasza Księgarnia’’, ,,PAX’’.
Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann died the 12th January 1980 in Warsaw. | pl_PL |
