Erna Rosenstein

Erna Rosenstein in her studio on Karłowicza Street in Warsaw, 1958. Photography: Tadeusz Rolke, Agencja Gazeta

Born in 1913 in Lwów (now the Ukrainian city Lviv) and raised in Kraków, Erna Rosenstein emerged as part of the Polish avant-garde in the 1930s, associated with the Kraków Group. She studied at the Wiener Frauen Akademie in Vienna in 1932-1934 and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków between 1934-1937. She was part of a tight-knit circle whose artistic innovations were rooted in socially progressive left-leaning politics and who mobilized actions under the Communist Union of Polish Youth. As part of the Kraków Group, she identified with such fellow artists as Jonasz Stern, Jadwiga Maziarska, and especially, Tadeusz Kantor, whose underground experimental artistic and theater activities embraced Surrealism. In late 1937, prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, she spent several months in Paris where she saw the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme (International Surrealist Exhibition) organized by André Breton and Paul Éluard. Passing through Germany on her way home to Poland, she also visited the Berlin edition of the Nazi Party’s notorious Degenerate Art Exhibition. These two shows made a profound impact upon Rosenstein’s early artistic ideas and undoubtedly influenced her storied career.

When war erupted and the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Rosenstein returned with her family to Lwów. They spent two years living in the Soviet occupied city, which provided less hostile conditions for Jewish families; there Rosenstein joined the Association of Artists. When Lwów was seized by the German army in 1941, the artist and her mother moved to the Jewish ghetto while her father went into hiding. The family acquired false identity papers in 1942, and escaped the ghetto to flee toward Warsaw. The horrifying events that followed would haunt the imagery and themes Rosenstein explored in her work for the ensuing five decades—in the process of the family’s sojourn, Rosenstein witnessed the brutal murder of her parents in a forest in the middle of the night. Wounded but able to escape, she survived the next three years of the war by living under false identities, changing the whereabouts of her lodging in Warsaw, and ultimately hiding in the small rural town of Częstochowa until the war’s end. While Rosenstein produced artworks in the prewar period, nothing survived the war. She resumed painting in 1945, and, in the years that followed, joined the Polish Workers’ Party, became a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) and the Young Artists Group, and exhibited her work in the National Modern Art Exhibition in Kraków (1948 – 1949). In 1947 and 1948, she traveled to Switzerland, England and Paris, where she saw a series of Surrealist exhibitions. While in Paris, she met her future husband, the literary critic and translator Artur Sandauer, with whom she eventually settled in Warsaw. Together they had a son, Adam Sandauer.

During the Socialist Realist period, between 1949 and 1955, Rosenstein withdrew from official artistic life; defying the communist-imposed artistic doctrine, she worked outside the mainstream art world. In 1955, she became one of the nine artists who reactivated the Kraków Group, staging the first modern art exhibition of the post-Stalin ‘thaw’ era. Her first solo exhibition was held in Warsaw in 1958 at the Kzywe Koło Gallery of Modern Art, run at the time by Marian Bogusz, a fellow artist and apostle of modernity. She came into prominence with a 1967 monographic exhibition at the Zachęta in Warsaw, a presentation designed by Tadeusz Kantor and inspired by the design of Surrealist exhibitions. She then participated in numerous national and international exhibitions such as the Golden Grape Symposiums in Zielona Góra and took part in Kantor’s happenings ‘Cricotage’ (1965) and ‘Panoramic Sea Happening’ (1967). In 1976, she was awarded the prestigious Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art Critics Award, and in 1996, the Jan Cybis Prize, Poland’s most respected artistic distinction.

Erna Rosenstein was an author of paintings, assemblages, drawings, objects, and artist books. She published seven volumes of poetry, among others Ślad (Trace) in 1972 and Spoza granic mowy (From Beyond the Edges of Speech) in 1976. She died on November 10, 2004 in Warsaw. Her works are in the collections of majors Polish and international collections such as the National Museums in Warsaw, Wrocław and Kraków as well as the Muzeum Sztuji in Łódź. Recent international presentations of Rosenstein’s works include Unorthodox at The Jewish Museum in New York (2016), documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017), and the travelling exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Tate Modern in London (2021-2022).

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Erna Rosenstein

Biography

Print Biography
Born
Born in Lwów, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, 1913
Education

Studied at the Wiener Frauenakademie, Vienna, Austria, 1932 – 1934
Studied Painting at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, Poland, 1934 – 1937

Died
Died in Warsaw, Poland, 2004

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
Hauser & Wirth, 'Erna Rosenstein', Zurich, Switzerland
Foksal Gallery Foundation, 'Erna Rosenstein. Shadow Hunter', Warsaw, Poland
2021
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Erna Rosenstein: Once Upon a Time’, New York NY
2019
Galeria Szydłowski, 'Krystiana Robb-Narbutt and Erna Rosenstein. Pouch for Silence', Warsaw, Poland
2015
Galeria Szydłowski, 'Traces', Warsaw, Poland
2014
Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Department of the National Museum in Warsaw, 'Erna Rosenstein. Superimposition', Warsaw, Poland
2013
Art Stations Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein. Organism', Poznań, Poland
2011
Foksal Gallery Foundation and Avant-garde Institute, 'Erna Rosenstein. I Can Repeat Only Unconsciously', Warsaw, Poland
2005
Galeria Szydłowski, 'Erna Rosenstein. Always, Never and Again', Warsaw, Poland
2004
BWA Galeria Miejska Bydgoszcz, 'Erna Rosenstein', Bydgoszcz, Poland
2003
Galeria Szydłowski, 'Obrazy bezdomne / Homeless Paintings' Warsaw, Poland
Art Gallery, 'Metamorphoses of Matter', Płock, Poland
2002
Galeria 86, 'Erna Rosenstein. Rzeczy, ślady, papiery z szafy / Things, Traces and Papers from the Closet', Łódź, Poland
2001
Ego Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein - Poetyckie widzenia / Poetic Visions', Poznań, Poland
1999
Krzysztofory Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein', Kraków, Poland
Galeria Szydłowski, 'Erna Rosenstein. Tifles', Warsaw, Poland
1998
Galeria Krzysztofory, Kraków, Poland
Historical and Ethnographic Museum, Chojnice, Poland
1997
Galeria DAP (Dom Artysty Plastyka), Warsaw, Poland
1996
SBWA Sculpture Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein', Warsaw, Poland
Galeria DAP (Dom Artysty Plastyka), 'Book of Eternal Remembrance', Warsaw, Poland
Galeria na Piętrze, Koszalin, Poland
1995
Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Division of the National Museum in Warsaw, 'Erna Rosenstein', Warsaw, Poland
Contemporary Art Museum, Department of the Radom District Museum, 'Erna Rosenstein', Radom, Poland
1994
SBWA Sculpture Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein', Warsaw, Poland
1993
BWA Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, 'Erna Rosenstein', Zamość, Poland
1992
SBWA Sculpture Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein. Drawing and Painting', Warsaw, Poland
Contemporary Art Museum, Department of the Radom District Museum, 'Erna Rosenstein. Drawings from 1945 – 1992 and Few Paintings and Fantastic Objects', Radom, Poland
1991
Gallery Library Legionowo, Legionowo, Poland
1990
SBWA Sculpture Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein', Warsaw, Poland
1989
University Gallery of Contemporary Art, 'Drawings by Erna Rosenstein', Cieszyn, Poland
Galeria Hadar, Kraków, Poland
1988
Galleria Pod Pisuarem, Chorzów, Poland
House of Creative Environments, Kielce, Poland
Galeria Riviera, Warsaw, Poland
1987
Gdańsk Archaeological Museum, Gdańsk, Poland
Galeria Nowa, Poznań, Poland
1985
Krzysztofory Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein', Kraków, Poland
1984
Art Center Studio Gallery, 'Unexpected. Drawings, Paintings, Objects. Erna Rosenstein', Warsaw, Poland
1983
BWA Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, 'Erna Rosenstein. Painting – Drawing', Wałbrzych, Poland
1981
Galeria 72, 'Erna Rosenstein', Chełm, Poland
1980
Salon Sztuki Współczesnej BWA, 'Erna Rosenstein', Piła, Poland
1978
BWA Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, 'Erna Rosenstein. Painting and Drawings', Koszalin, Poland
Galeria Mala, 'Paintings and Drawings of Erna Rosenstein', Kolobrzeg, Poland
1976
Contemporary Art Salon Koszykowa DESA, 'Erna Rosenstein. Painting and Drawings', Warsaw, Poland
1974
Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, 'Erna Rosenstein. Painting', Olsztyn, Poland
1967
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein. Painting', Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztofory Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein', Kraków, Poland
1966
BWA Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, 'Erna Rosenstein', Wroclaw, Poland
1958
Krzywe Koło Gallery, 'Erna Rosenstein. Painting', Warsaw, Poland
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Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
Whitechapel Gallery, 'Action, Gesture, Paint. Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70', London, UK
2022
Muzeum Sztuki, 'Erna Rosenstein, Aubrey Williams. The Earth Will Open its Mouth', Łódź, Poland
Tate Modern, 'Surrealism Beyond Borders', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
2019
Academy of Fine Arts / Hotel am Brillantengrund, 'Wild Spoerri Rosenstein', Vienna, Austria
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 'Never Again. Art Against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st Centuries', Warsaw, Poland
Studio Gallery, 'Transfert', Warsaw, Poland
2018
Muzeum Susch, 'A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women', Zernez, Switzerland
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 'Estranged. March ’68 and Its Aftermath', Warsaw, Poland
Spectra Art Space, '1918-2018 Selected Fragments from Polish HERstory of Art', Warsaw, Poland
2017
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 'The Beguiling Siren is thy Crest', Warsaw, Poland
documenta / EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, 'documenta 14', Athens, Greece
documenta / Neue Galerie, 'documenta 14', Kassel, Germany
2016
Contemporary Art Museum, 'Polska Sztuka Powojenna', Radom, Poland
2015
The Jewish Museum, 'Unorthodox', New York NY
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Just After the War', Warsaw, Poland
Count Raczyński’s Tenement House, Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'TRUTH BEAUTY GOODNESS from the Zachęta Collection', Warsaw, Poland
2014
Gallery of 20th Century Art at Oksza Villa, Tatra Museum in Zakopane, 'Modest Muses', Zakopane, Poland
Opera Gallery, Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa, 'Jewish Artists in Postwar Poland (1945 – 1989)', Warsaw, Poland
2013
The Historical Museum of the City of Kraków / Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory, 'Holocaust Survivors. Jonasz Stern, Erna Rosenstein, Artur Nacht-Samborski', Kraków, Poland
2010
National Museum in Gdańsk, '100 Anniversary of Abstraction. Exhibition of artwork in the collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk', Gdańsk, Poland
2007
Art Stations, 'Exhibition of artwork in the collection of Grażyna Kulczyk', Poznań, Poland
2005
Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Division of the National Museum in Warsaw, 'Year 1955', Warsaw, Poland
Fizek Gallery, 'From the Mystery of Cobalt to the Depth of Ultramarine – Jewish Artists from the Signum Foundation Collection', Poznań, Poland
2004
Kunstverein Graz, 'Maikäfer flieg', Regensburg, Germany
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Warszawa Moskwa 1900 – 2000', Warsaw, Poland
National Museum in Gdańsk, 'Polish Avantgarde Painting1950 – 1970, from Bogdan Jakubowski's Collection', Gdańsk, Poland
2002
Krzysztofory Gallery, 'Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
2000
Nowosielski Foundation / Starmach Gallery, 'Modern Painters versus Socialist Realism', Kraków, Poland
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Female Art', Radom, Poland
Ego Galley, 'Women of Modernity', Poznan, Poland
Galeria Szydłowski, 'Artyści Krzywego Koła / Artists of Krzywe Koło', Warsaw, Poland
1999
National Museum in Szczecin, 'Kraków Group', Szczecin, Poland
1998
Starmach Gallery, 'First Modern Art Exhibitions, 50 Years Later', Kraków, Poland
1997
Karsh-Masson Gallery, 'The Kraków Group', Ottawa, Canada
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Generations', Warsaw, Poland
1996
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Polish Artists for the Museum in Vukovar', Warsaw, Poland
1995
City Art Gallery, 'Polish Surrealists', Częstochowa, Poland
1994
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Kraków Group', Warsaw, Poland
1993
SBWA Sculpture Gallery, 'From the Nooks', Warsaw, Poland
Zapiecek Gallery, 'Jewish Artists Exhibition', Warsaw, Poland
1991
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Epitaph and Seven Spaces', Warsaw, Poland
National Museum in Warsaw, 'Polish Female Artists', Warsaw, Poland
1990
National Museum in Warsaw, 'Krzywe Koło Gallery', Warsaw, Poland
Art Gallery Studio, 'An homage to Henryk Stażewski', Warsaw, Poland
1988
Dom Sztuki, '7th Kraków Group Exhibition', Rzeszów, Poland
1986
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 'Masters of Contemporary Polish Art', Ithaca NY
1985
Art Gallery Studio, 'An homage to Witkacy', Warsaw, Poland
1983
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Collection of the Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
1980
Polnisches Institut, 'Warschauer Künstler – Malerei, Grafik und Zeichnung Plastik', Düsseldorf, Germany
Contemporary Art Museum, Department of the Radom District Museum, 'Drawing and comments', Radom, Poland
1979
National Museum in Poznań, '35 Years of Polish Painting', Poznan, Poland
1977
BWA District Museum and Exhibition Pavilions, 'Eighth Golden Grape Symposium', Zielona Góra, Poland
Galeria DAP (Dom Artysty Plastyka), 'The Cyprian Kamil Norwid Artistic Critic Award Winners from the Years 1967 to 1976', Warsaw, Poland
1976
Petit Palais, 'L’esprit romantique', Paris, France
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Festival of Fine Arts', Warsaw, Poland
1975
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Romanticism and Romantic Spirit in 19th- and 20th-century', Warsaw, Poland
Polish Art National Museum in Wrocław, 'In the Circle of Surrealism: Metaphorical and Expressive Current in Polish Art', Wroclaw, Poland
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Thirteenth Exhibition of the Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
1974
Summer Festival Baltimore, Baltimore MD
1973
Kunsthalle Mannheim, 'Polish Painting Exhibition', Mannheim, Germany
1971
BWA District Museum and Exhibition Pavilions, 'Fifth Golden Grape Symposium', Zielona Góra, Poland
1970
Fundació Joan Miró, 'International Joan Miró Drawing Exhibition', Barcelona, Spain
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 'Exhibition of Five Polish Surrealists', Copenhagen, Denmark
1969
BWA District Museum and Exhibition Pavilions, 'Fourth Golden Grape Symposium', Zielona Góra, Poland
1967
BWA District Museum and Exhibition Pavilions, 'Third Golden Grape Symposium', Zielona Góra, Poland
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Eighth Exhibition of the Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
1966
Contemporary Art Museum, 'Gifts', Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
1965
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 'Exhibition of 37 Contemporary Polish Artists', Tel Aviv, Israel
Bienal de São Paulo, '8th São Paulo Biennial. International Exhibition of surrealism and fantastic art', São Paulo, Brazil
Georgi-Dimitroff-Museum, 'Echos of the Anti-fascist Resistance in Polish Art', Leipzig, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
International Exhibition Centre, 'Echos of the Anti-fascist Resistance in Polish Art', Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
BWA District Museum and Exhibition Pavilions, 'Second Golden Grape Symposium', Zielona Góra, Poland
BWA City Exhibition Pavilion, 'Kraków Meetings', Kraków, Poland
1964
Palais des Congrès, 'International Salon of Contemporary Art', Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco
Art Pavilion, 'Polish Resistance Movement in Art', Belgrade, Serbia
The International Meetings of Artists, Scientists, and Art Theorists, '2nd Plein-Air: The International Meetings of Artists, Scientists, and Art Theorists', Osieki, Poland
Galeria Krzywe Koło, 'Paintings from the First and Second Plein-Airs in Osieki', Warsaw, Poland
Adam Mickiewicz Museum, 'Exhibition of 12 artists invited to create the graphic design for Sir Thaddeus', Warsaw, Poland
1963
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Fourth Exhibition of the Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
Galeria Krzywe Koło, 'Confrontations 1963', Warsaw, Poland
BWA District Museum and Exhibition Pavilions, 'First Golden Grape Symposium', Zielona Góra, Poland
1962
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Third Exhibition of the Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
Community Arts Building, Wayne State University, 'The First American Exhibition of Polish Paintings by the Kraków Group', Detroit MI
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Metafory', Sopot, Poland (Travelling Exhibition)
Sopot Pawilony Wystawowe CBWA, 'Metafory', Sopot, Poland (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Schütze, 'Intergroup 1962. International Exhibition of Modern Art', Bad Godesberg / Rheinhausen / Essen, Germany
Galeria Krzywe Koło, 'Confrontations 1956–62', Warsaw, Poland
Galeria Krzywe Koło, 'Collections of the Galeria Krzywe Koło (Polish Modern Art 1957–61)', Warsaw, Poland
1961
National Museum in Warsaw, 'Polish Fine Art of the 15th Anniversary of the Polish People’s Republic', Warsaw, Poland
Galeria Krzywe Koło, 'Collection of Paintings', Warsaw, Poland
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Exhibition of Drawings by Warsaw Artists', Kraków, Poland
1960
Galeria MDM, 'Exhibition of Drawings of Nine Contemporary Artists from Warsaw', Warsaw, Poland
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'Second Exhibition of the Kraków Group', Kraków, Poland
CCG, 'Polish Painters Exhibition', Paris, France
1959
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Third Exhibition of Modern Art ', Warsaw, Poland
1958
Galeria Krzysztofory, 'First Exhibition of the Kraków Group II', Kraków, Poland
Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions (BWA), 'Exhibition of Three Painters: Erna Rosenstein, Jadwiga Maziarska and Tadeusz Romanowski', Lublin, Poland
1957
Zachęta National Art Gallery, 'Second Exhibition of Modern Art', Warsaw, Poland
Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1955
Galeria DAP (Dom Artysty Plastyka), 'The Nine Exhibition', Kraków, Poland
1948
Palace of Art, TPSP Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, 'First Exhibition of Modern Art', Kraków, Poland
1946
Palace of Art, TPSP Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, 'Exhibition of Young Visual Artists’ Group', Kraków, Poland
1945
Spring Salon, Częstochowa, Poland
1939
Galeria DAP (Dom Artysty Plastyka), Kraków, Poland
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Awards

1966
Jan Cybis Prize, Warsaw District of the Association of Polish Visual Artists, Warsaw, Poland
1964
Grand Prix, International Salon of Contemporary Art at the Palais des Congrès, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco
Award of the Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Second Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland
1976
Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art Critics’ Award, Warsaw Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Warsaw, Poland
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Bibliography

Monographs

2020
Gingeras, Alison M. (ed.), 'Erna Rosenstein: Once Upon a Time', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2020
2014
Jarecka, Dorota, Piwowarska, Barbara, 'Erna Rosenstein. Mogę Powtarzać Tylko Nieświadomie / I Can Only Repeat Unconsciously', Warsaw: Foksal Gallery Foundation, 2014
2004
Jeziorowski, Tomasz, Kaźmierczak, Beata, 'Erna Rosenstein', Bydgoszcz: Galeria BWA Bydgoszcz, 2004 (exh. cat.)
2002
Taranienko, Zbigniew, 'Erna Rosenstein', Lodz: Galeria 86, 2002 (exh. cat.)
1997
ZPAP Association of Polish Artists and Designers of the Warsaw District (ed.), 'Erna Rosenstein', Warsaw: ZPAP Association of Polish Artists and Designers of the Warsaw District, 1997 (exh. cat)
1992
Chrobak, Józef (ed.), 'Erna Rosenstein', Kraków: Kraków Group Artistic Association, 1992
1984
Taraninko, Zbigniew, 'Niespodziewane. Rysunki, rzeczy, malarstwo. Erna Rosenstein' [Unexpected. Drawings, Things, Paintings. Erna Rosenstein], Warsaw: Galeria Centrum Sztuki Studio, 1984 (exh. cat.)
1974
Galeria BWA Olsztyn (ed.), 'Erna Rosenstein. Malarstwo' [Erna Rosenstein. Paintings], Olsztyn: Galeria BWA Olsztyn, 1974 (exh. cat.)
1967
Hackiewiczowa, Wanda (ed.), 'Erna Rosenstein: Malarstwo' [Erna Rosenstein. Paintings], Warsaw: CBWA Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions, 1967 (exh. cat.)
1958
Galeria Krzywe Koło (ed.), 'Wystawa Malarstwa Erny Rosenstein' [Exhibition of Paintings by Erna Rosenstein], Warsaw: Galeria Krzywe Koło, 1958 (exh. cat.)
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Artist's Books & Writings

2022
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Erna Rosenstein. Poławiacz cieni. Bajki zebrane' [Erna Rosenstein. The Shadow Hunter. Collected Fairy Tale], Lusowo: Wolno, Warsaw: Foksal Gallery Foundation, 2022, ill.
2014
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Bajki' [Fairy tales], Wrocław: Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Warstwy, 2014
1998
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Płynie rzeka' [River Is Flowing], Chojnice: Muzeum Historyczno-Etnograficzne, 1998
1994
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Jeszcze z archiwum' [More from the Archive], Warsaw: Galeria Rzeźby [Sculpture Gallery], 1994
1993
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Trochę z archiwum' [A Little from the Archive], Legionowo: Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna, 1993
1986
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Czas' [Time], Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1986
1979
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Wszystkie ścieżki' [All Paths], Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1979
1976
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Spoza granic mowy' [From Beyond the Edges of Speech], Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1976
1972
Rosenstein, Erna, 'Ślad' [Trace], Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1972
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Publications

2022
Gawkowski, Jakub, Mercer, Kobena, Strickland, Hope (et al.), 'Erna Rosenstein Aubrey Williams. The Earth Will Open Its Mouth', Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)
2021
D’Alessandro, Stephanie, Gale, Matthew (eds.), 'Surrealism Beyond Borders', New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, p. 233, ill. (exh. cat.)
2019
Muzeum Susch (ed.), 'A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women', Susch/CH: Muzeum Susch, 2019, ill. (exh. cat.)
2008
Ziarkiewicz, Ryszard (ed.), 'Awangarda w Plenerze: Osieki I Łazy 1963-1981. Avant-garde in plein-air: Osieki and Łazy 1963-1981', Koszalin: Muzeum w Koszalinie, 2008, ill.
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Press

2021
Brock, Peter, 'Erna Rosenstein’s Dreamlike Forms Resist Interpretation', on: frieze.com, 9 November 2021, ill.
Szremski, Ania, 'Erna Rosenstein. The chaos of memory: a foraging artist receives her first solo show outside of Poland', on: 4columns.org, 5 November 2021, ill.
Zhang, Lisa Yin, 'Erna Rosenstein. Once Upon a Time', on: theguide.art, November 2021, ill.
___, 'A reading and response to the poems of Erna Rosenstein by The Wooster Group' [short film, Erna Rosenstein’s Paintings and Poems Read by Maura Tierney], on: hauserwirth.com/ursula, 24 October 2021, ill.
Traps, Yevgeniya, 'After the horrors of the Nazi invasion, a darkly gorgeous fairy tale emerges', on: forward.com, 14 October 2021, ill.
Angeleti, Gabriella, 'Three Exhibitions to See in New York This Weekend', in: The Art Newspaper, London, 8 October 2021, ill.
Kościuczuk, Krzysztof, 'Shining', in: Mousse Magazine, Milan, no. 75, Spring 2021, pp. 164-185, ill.
2020
Gingeras, Alison M., 'Kept under the eyelids: A portfolio of drawings by Erna Rosenstein (1913-2004)', in: Ursula, New York, no. 6, Spring 2020, pp. 68-81, ill.
2019
Michalska, Magda, 'Erna Rosenstein. Surrealist in the Country Where Surrealism Didn’t Exist', on: www.dailyartmagazine.com, 31 May 2019, ill.
2017
Usakowska-Wolff, Urszula, 'Erna Rosenstein: Bilder und Worte', on: www.kunstdunst.com, 2017, ill.
2012
Słodkowski, Piotr, 'Przekroczyć surrealizm', in: Arteon, Poznań, no. 3, March 2012
2008
Walenciak, Robert, 'Pudełko też chce być ważne', in: Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, 12 January 2008
2001
Sztyma, T., 'Wystawa Erny Rosenstein', in: Gazeta Wielkopolska, Kraków, no. 129, 2001
1998
Jarecka, Dorota, 'Ekran do wyświetlania myśli', in: Dialog, Lodz, no. 12, 1997
1997
Jarecka, Dorota, 'Kawałki, fragmenty, części', in: Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, no. 11, 1997
Kuc, Monika, 'Nazwiska Erny Rosenstein', in: Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, no. 92, 1997
1996
Kołowska, M., 'Erna Rosenstein – Nie dokończony rozdział', in: Głos Koszalina, Koszalin, no. 217, 1996
1995
Telewizja Polska, 'Erna Rosenstein. Wieczność dla nikogo' ['Erna Rosenstein. Eternity for No One', documentary, directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz], 1995
1994
Małkowska, Monika, 'Malarstwo i poezja Erny Rosenstein. Żeby nie było kłamstwa', in: Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw, no. 182, 1994
Jarecka, Dorota, 'Wystawa prac i wiersze Erny Rosenstein w warszawskiej Galerii Rzeźby. Obrazy przemijania', in: Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, no. 175, 1994
Telewizja Polska, 'Nazwiska Erny Rosenstein' [The names of Erna Rosenstein, documentary, directed by Andrzej E. Falber], 1994
1991
Kowalska, Bożena, 'Erna Rosenstein', in: Projekt, no. 2, 1991
1987
___, 'Erna Rosenstein malarka i poetka w jednej osobie', in: Ekspress Poznański, Poznań, no. 220, 1987
___, 'Malarstwo i poezja Erny Rosenstein', in: Dziennik Bałtycki, Gdańsk, no. 40, 1987
1985
Warzecha, A., 'Malarstwo Erny Rosenstein', in: Dziennik Polski, Kraków, no. 220, 1985
1984
Kossakowski, Jarosław, 'Rzeczy artystyczne Erny Rosenstein', in: Słowo Powszechne, Warsaw, no. 60, 1984
1978
Grubert, H., 'W pracowni Erny Rosenstein', in: Ekspress Wieczorny, Sochaczew, no. 219, 1978
1967
Ptaszkowska, Hanna, 'Erna Rosenstein', in: Poezja, no. 6, 1967
___, 'Alchemy', in: Poland Illustrated Magazine, Warsaw, no. 11, 1967, pp. 8-9
Borowski, Wiesław, 'Malarstwo Erny Rosenstein', in: Współczesność, Warsaw, no. 12, 1967
Gutowski, Maciej, 'Prace Erny Rosenstein w Krzysztoforach', in: Dziennik Polski, Kraków, no. 262, 1967
Witz, Ignacy, 'Wystawy warszawskie', in: Życie Warszawy, Warsaw, no. 122, 1967
Skrzynecki, Piotr, 'Spalenie czarownicy', in: Echo Krakówa, Kraków, no. 264, 1967
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