Paola Lander is a famous Polish painter who has lived in UK since the mid-nineteenth century. Her painting career spanned three decades, during which she was married four times and produced dozens of paintings. She had numerous partnerships but still managed to produce excellent paintings as her life span was extremely short. Her most famous of paintings is entitled Motherwell, which depicts a beautiful farmhouse at the side of the river from the perspective of its late autumn leaves.
As her career progressed, she tried her hand at painting portraits, which she described as her “duty”. In her career, she worked in numerous studios and maintained professional relationships with various artists, producing for them everything from traditional landscapes to modern abstract drawings. At the age of eighty-one, she finally decided to call it quits, and in the same year she married Josef Pieper, a German aristocrat who had been a professional chef and whose wealth enabled her to buy a large farmhouse on the outskirts of Opole.
This is the period in which Paola Lander seemed to have lost interest in her career. Over the years she appeared to develop a distaste for painting, preferring to spend her evenings at home with her cats, or gardening. Some people suggest that this led her to neglect the quality of her artwork, and her output suffered as a result. Regardless, of whether this is true or not, by the end of the twentieth century she was only producing minimal paintings, often dull and colourless. It seems that the period leading up to World War II had a major impact on her mind, as her colour vision and aesthetic sense became far more reserved and Zen-like.