Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz
We love to introduce women artists! Time for Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, who was a Polish painter known for her portraits. A representative of Realism, she spent most of her life in Paris. Bilińska's work was not well known through the 20th century, even in her home country. Some credit the prejudices of the time and her own early death and short career for this lack of recognition, but, if so, it was a fate she held in common with numerous other gifted women painters of the 19th century.
In today's painting, Bilińska painted the foggy townscape as seen from a window of a high building on the famous avenue Unter den Linden, masterfully capturing the atmosphere of a winter morning. The picture documents the view of fin-de-siècle Berlin: the dome of the French Cathedral, a barely visible tower of St. Peter’s church, and the Passage-Panoptikum building, which did not survive to this day. As Bilińska's husband noted: it is a “gloomy, foggy, but authentic winter view of Unter den Linden." Due to a noticeable resemblance to Claude Monet’s and Camille Pissarro’s paintings of lively Parisian streets, this painting in fact resembles the works of Impressionists, whom Bilińska criticized.
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P.S. If you're fascinated by this work, read more about Anna Bilińska's difficult life story and career in Paris.
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