Portrait of Dagne Juel Przybyszewska

During next month, every Wednesday and Sunday, we will show you an artwork from the database of wartime losses (www.lootedart.gov.pl) conducted by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Due to World War II, Poland has lost over 70% of its material cultural heritage. This painting is marked with a signature: "To honourable Lady Dagny Przybyszewska from Konrad Krzyżanowski 1901 In 1932 Bernardowa Lauer". Before 1939 the painting ornamented the interior of Polish Embassy in Berlin and was lost at the time of World War II. Dagny Przybyszewska, nee Juel (1867-1901), was the daughter of a well-known Norwegian doctor, Lemmich Juel, and a pianist by education. In the recent years of her life she was engaged in literature and she was one of the most famous persons from the modernistic art world in Berlin, and then also Cracow.