Google Doodle: What Is Katarzyna Kobro Death Cause? Husband Władysław Strzemiński and Children Today

Google Doodle has resurfaced the Polish artist Katarzyna Kobro, who died in 1951 to cancer. Continue reading the article to learn more about the phenomenal artist. 

 Katarzyna Kobro, a pioneer of Polish art was paid tribute by Google on January 26, 2022. 

The second letter ‘o,’ in the Google logo was redesigned to include a portrait drawing of Kobro. The remaining letters of the word ‘Google’ can be interpreted as sculptures in the style of Kobro’s avant-garde work.

‘Here’s to an intellect who molded the art world,’ Google wrote.

Google Doodle: What Is Katarzyna Kobro Death Cause?

Google Doodle: Katarzyna Kobro’s death cause was reported to be cancer. In 1950, she was diagnosed with cancer and died the following year.

Katarzyna Kobro was paid a tribute by  Google doodle on January 26, 2022, to commemorate her 124th birthday. A portrait of her appeared on the search engine’s front page.

She was born in Moscow in 1898 to a German father and a Russian mother. 

Kobro is the most under-appreciated Polish artist whose sculptures polarized critics in her home country during the mid-twentieth century.

She was a Polish avant-garde sculptor and art theorist of Russian origin. One reason for her unrecognition was that much of her work was lost or damaged during WWII.

Another is that, like other female artists, she was rarely given the same acknowledgment as other male artists in the history of European abstraction.

However, she is being appreciated recently, and there is a gallery dedicated to Kobro at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which includes a work on loan from the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Polan d.

She “studied sculpture at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1917, on the eve of the Revolution. Then at the city’s Free State Art Studios in 1918,” according to awarewomenartists.com.

The works that have survived by Kobro are elegant, minimal, and eye-catching.

Some dangle like mobiles and have splashes of color in the form of blue or yellow rectangular forms, others resemble metal twists. Some critics derided Kobro’s works during her lifetime, with one even calling her art “aimless.”

Where Are Katarzyna Kobro Husband Władysław Strzemiński and Children Today?

Katarzyna Kobro and her husband Władysław Strzemiński had one child together, named Nika on on 6 November 1936. Nika is believed to be a scientist later. 

The couple first met in Moscow while she was attending school, and the couple married in 1920. 

She embarked on her artistic journey with her husband and moved to Poland in 1922. He was a well-known Polish avant-garde painter best known for developing the modernist theory of Unism.

Strzemiński also served as a second lieutenant at the Osowiec Fortress during World War I where he lost his leg and arm and had never made peace with his disability. 

During World War II, she and her husband lost most of their jobs, their marriage fell apart, lost their work of art. And Władysław attempted to take away Katarzyna’s daughter but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Some unseen photographs of Katarzyna Kobro and her husband, Władysław Strzemiński is available here. 

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