Stefania DRETLER-FLIN (1909–1994), woodcut from the series *Beautiful Kraków*

Woodcuts, paper; 16 x 11 cm (inside the mat).
Stefania Dretler-Flin—Polish visual artist. She specialized in printmaking (linocut and woodcut) and, after 1960, in ceramics and figurative sculpture. After studying art in Kraków, she trained at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. She made her debut in 1933. She was a member of the Group of Nine Printmakers. During the war, she lived in Lviv and Warsaw. She participated in the Warsaw Uprising. Her husband, Zygmunt Flin (1909–1993), a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic, also practiced ceramic sculpture. She was a member of the GROUP OF NINE GRAPHIC ARTISTS, which brought together the most outstanding representatives of Polish woodcut art in postwar Poland.