Maria Dawska (1909 Translator near Stanislawow - 1993 Warsaw), "Oceanic Composition," 1960

Condition
unframed
tears in the margin outside the composition (upper left corner and on the right side)

Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1928-33. She received her diploma in 1933. She then studied pedagogy and art history at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. In 1933 she founded the art group "Orion" in Stanislawow (together with Jonasz Stern and W. Przedwojewski). After the war, a member of the ZPAP in Cracow. In 1947, together with her husband, Stanislaw Dawski, she settled in Wroclaw and took a job at the Academy of Fine Arts (now the Academy of Fine Arts). Associated with this university until 1970. After the 1968 accidents, she and her husband were harassed by the authorities. She left Wroclaw and settled in Warsaw from 1969. She was socially active in the Society of Friends of Children. Her art was inspired by the observation of nature including, for example, the elements of the sea (the cycles "Oceanic Compositions", "Antarctic Compositions", "Fauna"), as well as her long-time cooperation with children in the Wroclaw Society of Friends of Children (the cycle "Painted Fairy Tales"). She took up sports themes, participating and winning prizes in national Olympic competitions in 1948 and 1956. After 1956, the organic, semi-abstract, allusive forms of her works brought her closer to surrealism.