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Kobro's
Life
Jan. 26. 1898
Katarzyna is born in Moscow to parents Mikolaj von Kobro and Eugenia Roza
nowa;
1917
Begins studies at the Moscow School/Academy for Painting, Sculpture, and
Architecture;
1920
Breaks off studies; Kobro marries Wladyslaw Strzeminski; move to Smolensk;
joins the group UNOWIS;
1920-1922
Contact to the group OBMOChU;
1922
Move to Poland; sojourn in Wilna;
1924
Marriage in a church ceremony in Wilna, attains Polish citizenship; move
to Szczekociny; teaches at the industrial school in Szczekociny and Koluszki
(near Lodz); joins the group "Blok";
1925
leaves the group "Blok" again;
1926
Joins the group "Praesens";
June 1929
leaves the group "Praesens"; the group is then dissolved;
1929
Co-founder of the group "a.r.";
Until 1931
Teaches at a gymnasium (high school) and at an industrial school in Koluszki;
End 1931
Move to Lodz; teaches at the industrial school for women in Lodz;
1933
Joins the group "Abstraction-Creation";
1936
Daughter Nika is born;
1939
Sojourn in Wilejka, return to Lodz;
c. 1945
Separates from Strzeminski;
1949
Court action (question of nationality, custody of daughter Nika);
1949-1950
Teaches drawing and Russian in Lodz;
1950
Collapses physically due to cancer;
1951
Kobro dies in Lodz; interment in the Russian-Orthodox cemetary in Lodz.
Translation: Elizabeth Volk
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