Ewa Frąckowiak – art historian, graduate of the Department of Art History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, since 1987 in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the National Museum in Warsaw. Her research focusses on the artistic relationships among etchers, their technical collaborators, publishers, art critics and collectors, from the 1840s to the beginning of the interwar period. She is the co-author of the first Polish monographs on graphic art by artists including Max Klinger, Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt. Her most important publications are Kobieta, Eros, Śmierć. Graficzne cykle Maxa Klingera [Woman. Eros. Death. Max Klinger’s graphic cycles] (1993); Najcenniejsze ryciny francuskie 2. połowy XIX wieku ze zbiorów MNW [The most precious French etchings of the second half of the nineteenth century in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw] (1994); Niemiecka grafika autorska XIX stulecia z kolekcji MNW [Nineteenth-century original German prints in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw] (1994); Od Maneta do Bonnarda. Grafika i rysunki impresjonistów francuskich w zbiorach polskich [From Manet to Bonnard. The prints and drawings of the French Impressionists in Polish collections] (2001); Impresjoniści niemieccy: Liebermann, Corinth, Slevogt. Ryciny, rysunki, obrazy w zbiorach polskich [German Impressionists. Liebermann, Corinth, Slevogt. Etchings, drawings and paintings in Polish collections] (2005); Miłośnicy grafiki i ich kolekcje ze zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie [The Admirers of Prints and Their Collections in the National Museum in Warsaw] (2006); Visionarios. James Ensor. Max Klinger. Odilon Redon. Félicien Rops (1998); and “Simplicissimus: przeczucie końca czasów w grafice niemieckiej przed Wielką Wojną” [Simplicissimus: The foreboding of the end of time in German prints before the Great War] in Czas Apokalipsy. Koniec dziejów w kulturze od późnego średniowiecza do współczesności [The time of the Apocalypse. The end of time in culture from the late Middle Ages to the modern era] (2013).
