Julia Keilowa (née Ringel; 19021943) was a Polish artist industrial designer.

Early life

She came from an assimilated Jewish family, attending schools in both

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and

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. She studied model manufacture at the Lviv National Industrial School. In 1922 she married lawyer Ignacy Keil. She continued art studies at the

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. Her teachers included Karol Tichy, Wojciech Jastrzębowski, Józef Czajkowski and

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. During her studies she worked mainly with

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. In 1929 she became a member of the sculpting cooperative „Forma”. She exhibited at the Art Promotion Institute.

Designer

In 1933 she established her own metalwork workshop. She designed around 400 usable objects, mainly plated objects. Warsaw factories produced her cutlery and crockery, including Norblin, Fraget and Henneberg Brothers. During

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for two years she led a ceramic workshop. She died most probably at

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. In autumn 2012 an exhibition of her works took place in Copper Museum in

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. In October 2015, a major exhibition in Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk focused solely on Keilowa's work.

Death

Little is known about circumstances of her death; it is likely she died in the German-run

prison in 1943 during

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* Keilowa's work i
Central Jewish Library

Early life

Designer

Death

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