Erna Rosenstein

Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer. she studied at the in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She was associated with the pre-war ''Kraków Group''.

Rosenstein's parents were murdered after escaping Warsaw in 1942. Rosenstein survived World War II, hiding under various aliases.

After the war, Rosenstein co-founded the Second Kraków Group. In 1955 she was included in the exhibit ''Nine Artists '' along with fellow artist Tadeusz Brzozowski, Maria Jarema, Tadeusz Kantor, , , Jerzy Nowosielski, Jerzy Skarżyński, and . In 1967 a retrospective of her work was held at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.

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. Rosenstein died on November 10, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland.

Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago In 2021 the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York held her first solo exhibition outside of Poland, entitled ''Once Upon a Time''. 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. Provided by Wikipedia