Jadwiga Hładki

Jadwiga Hładki was a Polish painter, graphic artist and decorator. She attended the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting and subsequently studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa, under Olympian Władysław Skoczylas among others. She later became a member of the group of artists “Ryt” and of the Association of Polish Graphic Engraving. Together with her husband Antoni Wajwód (1905-1944) and Edward Manteuffel, she established the graphic and decorative studio Mewa.

All three artists were involved in the decoration of the Polish transatlantic liner “Pilsudski” and produced a number of covers for the well thought of magazine “Skamander”. After 1936, they separated and Hładki exhibited her woodcuts and applied graphics (illustrations, posters and stamps) all over Europe and also in New York. During World War II she was a member of the Polish resistance and was murdered by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 at about the same time as her husband.

When Hładki participated with Canoe in Los Angeles in 1932, she was still a student.