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Joanna Sabina Pisanska （June,30,1954 -)  is a Polish-born artist now living and working in Austria. Joanna S. Pisanskas professional work is best known for her excellent depicting of the human subject, and especially the connection between her and the model she chooses. Her portrait work was admired for her ability to artistically represent the likeness of her model, their personality, and even the mood of the person she paints. Her later work is more intimate and personal, focusing on special moments of her, and other peoples lives. “New Honesty” is the name Joanna S. Pisanska has given to her folding images, a new intimacy created by opening and closing her work. Through her use of folding images, she was able to visually present a snapshot of life, and a persons inner, most sensible truths.

Early Life, Education

Joanna S. Pisanska was born in 1954 in Warsaw, Poland at a time when the country was still under the influence of Soviet Russia. Joanna S. Pisanska was the second daughter, and the third child of her mother Eva Kann, at the time a known and admired academic painter in Warsaw. Joanna was a close family to the Walewska family, and her own family had a history of practicing and teaching the fine arts such as painting and music. Learning from her mother, Joanna gained her first experiences of the art of painting, style and impressions that reflect in her work to this day. At the age of 14, Joanna S. Pisanska already had her first exhibitions and her talent was well received shown through many portrait orders. That year, Joanna was admitted to PLSP Artschool (Kunstlyzeum) and in 1974 went on to visit the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych Warszawie).

World Tour, working Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Travels

Joanna S. Pisanskas life was enriched by her privilege to travel at a very young age, at a time when travel outside of Poland was extremely difficult for polish citizens. In her late teens, Joanna individually travelled to Stockholm (Sweden), Venice (Italy), Paris (France) and Vienna (Austria), the latter was where she met the renown Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Joanna S. Pisanskas and Hundertwassers relationship was that of close friendship, mutual inspiration and that of a Student and Teacher. In 1977, they together travelled to and worked in New Zealand, Thailand and Canada. Together, Joanna S. Pisanska and Hundertwasser worked and travelled for two years.

In some of her later travels, including returns to her home-city in Warsaw, as well as other major capitals of Europe such as Vienna, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris and London, Joanna met and worked together with some of the most remarkable artists such as Edward Dwurnik (Painter, Poland), Cezary Bedarksi (Architect, Artist, London), Gerald Brettschuh (Painter, Austria) with whom she still has a close friendship with to this day.


 * In 1978 Joanna S. Pisanska was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Academie de Lutec in Paris.
 * In 1979 Joanna S. Pisanska contributed to the famous Plakatbiennale and posters in Warsaw.
 * Between 1980-1999 Joanna S. Pisanska held exhibitions in Poland (Warsaw), Austria (Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Kitzbuehel), England (London), Germany (Stuttgart), Belgium (Mons).

Present Life, Teaching Art

Joanna S. Pisanska worked in Canada and Austria, later settling to live in Tyrol, Austria where she appreciates the calm of alpine nature as an inspiration to her work. Since settling in Austria, Joanna S. Pisanska opened her own studio and worked together with numerous schools and courses in Austria, including Art Didakta and Bilding.