Ursula BROLL (1930-2020), "Composition," 1958

oil, canvas, 100 x 72 cm,
Signed on the back: Urszula Broll / 1958.

Painter, associated with the Katowice-based St-53 and Oneiron groups. She studied at the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Initially succumbed to the fascination of Strzeminski's "Theory of Seeing", she was inspired by the work of Maria Jarema. In the 1960s, she became interested in the philosophy of the Far East, and together with her husband, Andrew Urbanowicz, they founded a Buddhist community. From then on, she created symbolic compositions with geometric arrangements and motifs taken from the Hindu "Tantra." Her later works refer to esoteric knowledge of color.