Ursula BROLL (1930-2020), "COMPOSITION I," 1970

oil, canvas pasted on board, 40 x 40 cm,
signed on the back: Urszula Broll / 1970.
Image purchased directly from the artist.

Urszula BROLL (1930-2020)
Painter, associated with the Katowice-based St-53 and Oneiron groups. She was educated at the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Initially she succumbed to the fascination of Strzeminski's "Theory of Seeing" and 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.