Artist Kiroslawa Danuta Weitzen (AKA Danka Weitzen) was born in 1950, in Lodz, Poland. Her family soon moved to Turin, Italy. She began training in the arts at the age of five with her father Aleksander, who was a well known artist. Young Danka discovered her love for painting in grade school, and received several awards. She then went on to arts high school in Turin, and proceeded to enroll in the painting department at Accademia Albertina, also in Turin.Danka's first exhibition was in Turin at Ars Plauda in 1969. Since then she has continued to exhibit around the world beginning in 1983 in Holland then Egypt, Malta, Norway, Germany, Ireland, the United States, Spain, USSR, Bulgaria, France, Poland, Costa Rica, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Her works are included in many private and public collections in Italy. Danka's painting style is influenced by the Italian gothic style of Cosmetura (Cosimo da Tura) and by the Ironic style of Caravaggio.