Maria Wollenberg-Kluza, DARKNESS..., 1985

36.4 x 46.5cm - oil, canvas

Signed l.d.: M. Wollenberg-Kluza
On the reverse on canvas l.g. author's sticker with details of the painting and address.



Maria Wollenberg-Kluza (Puławy 1945, lives in Warsaw) - studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1973 she received a diploma in painting with honors. The artist is considered a forerunner of reflective painting, which originated in pre-Romanticism, Symbolism and Polish Colorism. In painting, she refers to such artists as William Blake, Caspar D. Friedrich, Witold Pruszkowski, Witold Wojtkiewicz, Stanisław Wyspiański, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Cybis, Stanisław Szczepański. He paints mostly monothematic series of 20-30 works each, including People in the City, Man and Machine, Painting Inspired by Music, Poetic Impressions - Images from Norwid, Imagination Game, Impressions from Spain, Polish Landscapes, Mother's Animations, He and She, Ver sacrum, Images from Turkey, Notes from Norway, Meditations and Prayers, Chopin in Painting and Musical Motifs, Paderewski and Old Polish Music, etc.