Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: 1,0, , course: Polish Contemporary Art, language: English, abstract: Magdalena Abakanowicz is an extraordinary artist, somebody who ́s scale of work, of different techniques, ways of expression is really grand and widespreaded. It is an artist influenced by a dramatic and often tragic background and lived through different political tensions in Poland, so that also the political, psychological background is important for the understanding of the work of Abakanowicz. In this essay only a short overview can be given, but the spectrum of her work is much more extensive.