Janina Dłuska
# Janina Dłuska

Janina Dłuska (born 1899 – 8 June 1932), was a Russian Empire-born Polish visual artist, nurse, and aviator. She was known for her paintings.

## Biography

Janina Dłuska was born in 1899 in Kursk, Russian Empire (present-day Russia). She graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1919 she returned to Poland, and during the Polish-Soviet war, she served as a nurse in the Voluntary Legion of Women. After the war, she worked as a drawing teacher at the women's teachers' college in Lublin. In 1922, she moved to Munich, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich for 3 years, then studied in Paris. She specialized in portrait watercolor. She worked for magazines such as Vogue or Die Dame.

In 1931, she returned to Vilnius. She became interested in aviation, active in the Vilnius Aeroclub. She completed a pilot course and was to begin practical glider training, but on 8 June 1932, she died in a plane crash.

## Family

Her sister was Maria Dłuska, a linguist from the Jagiellonian University.

In 1954, Maria Dłuska donated a part of her sister's artistic legacy to the National Museum, Krakow.

