Author: Maria Gatnar-Guzy
Title: Painting on glass
Technique: painting on glass
Signed with monogram in lower right corner: "Maria Gatnar-Guzy"
Dimensions : 19 x 29 cm
Maria Gatnar-Guzy was born in 1923 in Pielgrzymowice. She was an artist-primitivist associated with the Vistula River.She graduated from the Higher School of Pedagogy in Krakow, Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Special Pedagogy in Warsaw. For a long period she worked as a teacher at the Sanatorium High School in Kubalonka, Istebna, where she was active in promoting local folklore. In 1975 she founded the "Regional Chamber" at this high school, which is still in operation today. In 1991 she settled in Wisła. She began painting only after she retired. She died in 2021 in Rybnik.
Her works have been exhibited at many exhibitions in the country, including in Zywiec, Wisla, Wroclaw, Bielsko-Biala and Gliwice, and abroad in France and the Czech Republic. In 2010, she won first place in the seventh All-Polish Glass Painting Contest "Worthy of Christmas".
