osiecka was born in warsaw the only child of wiktor osiecki a serbian-born pianist and composer and a scholar maria sztechman of serbian-vlach descent she spent her early years in zakopane where her father played the piano at the watra restaurant after world war ii the osiecki family moved to warsaw and settled in the saska kępa borough the small flat soon became osiecka’s favourite place to work she lived there almost her entire life and a commemorative plaque has been placed on the building by the okularnicy foundation