I found a renewed love for Franciska Themerson's work on my visit to Tate Modern last week. Franciszka Themerson (1907-1988) She seemed to be full of fun and I love her work wherever and whenever I come across it.
Franciszka and Stefan Themerson were innovative artists and pioneers of avant-garde Polish cinematography. Married in Warsaw in 1931, and founded the Polish Film-makers’ Co-operative in 1935. The Themersons moved to Paris in 1938, but both volunteered for the Polish army in 1939. They were reunited in London only in 1942 and in 1943 founded the publishing house Gaberbocchus and so it was their books for which they became best known in Britain. They were according to their friend Nick Wadley "great respecters of nonsense" and so published English translations of Kurt Schwitters, Guillaume Apollinaire and Alfred Jarry.
Love her, Hazel, and thank you, I'd never heard of her.
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