Born in Kalisz, Poland, to a Jewish family, Alina
Szapocznikow (1926–1973) survived internment
in a concentration camp as a teenager. Following
World War II, she trained as a sculptor in Prague
and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Plagued by
illness for much of her life, Szapocznikow suffered
from the then-untreatable disease tuberculosis
and later breast cancer. The influence of pop art,
surrealism and nouveau realism is prevalent
throughout her works. Her sculptures explore the
fragmentation of the human body, beginning with her early work in the 1960s, in
which she produced casts of her own body in plaster, stone and bronze.
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Born in Kalisz, Poland, to a Jewish family, Alina
Szapocznikow (1926–1973) survived internment
in a concentration camp as a teenager. Following
World War II, she trained as a sculptor in Prague
and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Plagued by
illness for much of her life, Szapocznikow suffered
from the then-untreatable disease tuberculosis
and later breast cancer. The influence of pop art,
surrealism and nouveau realism is prevalent
throughout her works. Her sculptures explore the
fragmentation of the human body, beginning with her early work in the 1960s, in
which she produced casts of her own body in plaster, stone and bronze.
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