Education
She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, studying under Tadeusz Pruszkowski.
She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, studying under Tadeusz Pruszkowski.
She has been described as one of the most important Polish female painters. She was a World World War II veteran of the Polish Resistance Movement after Nazi Germany occupied Poland, when she used the nom de guerre Kali. After emigrating and marrying, she used many variants of name, including "Hanna Kali Weynerowski", "Hanna Weynerowski-Kali", "Hanna Gordziałkowski-Weynerowski", "Hanka Weynerowska", and "Hanna Gordziałkowski", but she signed her paintings Kali.
Hanna Gordziałkowska was born on 18 December 1918 in Warsaw, Poland.
Her education was interrupted by the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. In the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, she was wounded and taken prisoner of war to Germany.
Her prison camp was eventually liberated by the Soviet Army. She escaped from communist-governed Poland, aided by the United States. military, to West Germany.
By 1945 she was living in Brussels, Belgium, and attending the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (ARBA) in Brussels to complete her arts education.
Foreign the next five years, she lived in Europe and exhibited her art in various countries, including France, Britain, Canada, Sweden, and Switzerland. She used many variants of her name after emigrating from Poland and marrying, including "Hanna Kali Weynerowski", "Hanna Weynerowski-Kali", "Hanna Gordziałkowski-Weynerowski", "Hanka Weynerowska", and "Hanna Gordziałkowski". Her paintings were simply signed Kali.
She died on 20 June 1998 in San Francisco.
In her will, she requested that her 86 paintings be transferred to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland. Her nephew explained that 75 of the missing paintings were in a storage facility.
They were returned to the museum. 1950: Galerie des Garets, Paris, France
1950: London Gallery, London, England
1950: Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1952: Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York, United States
1953: São Paulo Art Biennial (Bienal Do Museu De Arte Moderna), São Paulo, Brazil
1955: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, United States
1963: Gallery 63 Incorporated., New York, New York, United States
2014: Polish Museum, Rapperswil, Switzerland.
She joined the Polish resistance movement, the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), using the nom de guerre Kali. She was a member of a women"s sabotage unit