Jadwiga Umińska

Jadwiga Umińska was a Polish painter and graphic artist who studied at the at the private Warsaw School of Fine Arts. She later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa, until 1927, where she studied graphics under Władysław Skoczylas, amongst others.

In 1931, she won the first prize of a competition for selection of art works for the 1932 Olympics, with her painting Boxing. It is likely to be the work Boxers (oil on canvas, 139 x 113 cm) from 1931 from the collection of the Salford Museum & Gallery in Manchester. She also designed costumes for the opera from the late 1930s.

During the German occupation, she was an active participant in the Warsaw Uprising. Umińska produced numerous drawings – mainly sketches of landscapes, portraits and working documents of the Warsaw Uprising – as well as producing costumes for the theatres in Krakow and Zakopane. After World War II, Umińska focused more on illustrations of books and magazines. She and her husband Vaclav Baron also developed and carried out enamel designs on silver and copper.