Mela Muter

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Mela Muter

First name:

Mela

Last Name:

Muter

Nazwisko panieńskie lub używane formy poboczne:

właśc. Maria Melania Mutermilch z domu Klingsland

Parents:

Fabian Klingsland i Zuzanna z domu Feigenblatt

Date of birth:

26-04-1876

Place of birth:

Warszawa

Date of death:

16-05-1967

Age:

Profession:

painter

Biography:

Mela Muter, born Maria Melania Mutermilch, née Klingsland (1876-1967), born in Warsaw, daughter of Fabian Klingsland and Zuzanna, née Feigenblatt, painter and representative of modernism. From childhood, she learned to play instruments. She also attended, among other places, Milosz Kotarbiński's Drawing and Painting School for Women in Warsaw. She came from a Jewish family, raised in the Mosaic faith, but converted to Catholicism in 1923. She lived in Paris from 1901 and took French citizenship in 1927. During the war, she gave private lessons in painting and art history in the south of France. In the last years of her life she was supported by Bolesław Nawrocki junior and his wife Lina.

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