Spin, Mela (responsible. Mutermilch of the Klingsland Maria Melania) (ur. 1876 Warsaw, zm. 1967 Paris).
Painter. She studied under the supervision of M.. Kotarbiński at the School of Drawing and Painting for Women in Warsaw in the l. 1899-1900. W 1901 completed several months of artistic studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiare and at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Basically, however, she was self-taught, which she herself emphasized willingly. From 1902 she exhibited at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts Salons, of which she became a member in 1912. She also participated in the Autumn Salons (d Autumn) i Tuileries, has had many exhibitions at the Drueta galleries in Paris, Billieta, La Renaissance and in Munich, Barcelona and Pittsburgh. W 1923 there was a show of her works at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. W 1927 took French citizenship. Muterowa's paintings are characterized by anxiety, peculiar anti-aestheticism and striving for monumentality, manifested in the use of large-format canvases, using great lines and big lines, almost uniform color spots, as well as the abandonment of details, that may weaken, tear the whole composition apart. She was interested in the subject of poverty, old age and human suffering, She was widely known mainly as a portrait painter, author of images with a striking similarity and psychological depth of the shot. Its models were, among others. P. Clemenceau, J. Kasprowicz, L. Staf, S. Żeromski. She has also painted many self-portraits.
Painter. She studied under the supervision of M.. Kotarbiński at the School of Drawing and Painting for Women in Warsaw in the l. 1899-1900. W 1901 completed several months of artistic studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiare and at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Basically, however, she was self-taught, which she herself emphasized willingly. From 1902 she exhibited at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts Salons, of which she became a member in 1912. She also participated in the Autumn Salons (d Autumn) i Tuileries, has had many exhibitions at the Drueta galleries in Paris, Billieta, La Renaissance and in Munich, Barcelona and Pittsburgh. W 1923 there was a show of her works at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. W 1927 took French citizenship. Muterowa's paintings are characterized by anxiety, peculiar anti-aestheticism and striving for monumentality, manifested in the use of large-format canvases, using great lines and big lines, almost uniform color spots, as well as the abandonment of details, that may weaken, tear the whole composition apart. She was interested in the subject of poverty, old age and human suffering, She was widely known mainly as a portrait painter, author of images with a striking similarity and psychological depth of the shot. Its models were, among others. P. Clemenceau, J. Kasprowicz, L. Staf, S. Żeromski. She has also painted many self-portraits.
City landscape
oil, canvas, 80 x 90 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
oil, canvas, 80 x 90 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
