Hanna Bakuła

Selfportrait - Crayon drawing, Figurative, Colourful, Woman, Nude

20th century

Hanna Bakuła is a Polish painter, stage designer and writer. Bakuła graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she studied under such polish masters as J. Tarasin, E. Eibisch, A. Kobzdej. In 1981, she moved to New York and settled down in Manhattan. She painted, designed scenography and costumes for the avant-garde theatre, The Kitchen. These designs were praised by The New York Times as the best of the Off-Broadway projects and won the first prize. She received a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1989, she came back to Poland. Since 1996, Bakuła has organized Franz Schubert's Music Festivals. In 1997, she has established the Hanna Bakuła Foundation and later, the Women's Club. Bakuła is an author of many portraits, including Grace Jones, Liv Ullmann and Yehudi Menuhin. She works and lives in Warsaw.