Urszula Broll ‘Only sounds are as warm as butterflies — a moth sealed in a bell-shape is rubbing its white body against a metal
Urszula Broll — book about her painting and life ‘I'm in close touch with my works, I create them actually for myself, inorder to learn what I don't know about myself… In silence, in...
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… I'm blending dust and gold — feathers, burnt to ashes, are swinging wooden chimes — an hour, like a peacock, is opening purples — clock hands, cast in sharp nails, can no longer hurt the sun — cross-shaped, in the air, they will swing the stretched shadow — white stones of the sleep of the just.”
Urszula Broll (1961)
Urszula Broll-Urbanowicz was born in 1930 in Katowice. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 1955. Co-founded St-53 group in 1953, and took part in all its exhibitions while it existed.
Urszula Broll was also connected with the neo-avant-garde and Krzywego Koła Gallery in Warsaw. In 1967 she co-founded the Oneiron circle, and continued to participate in its activities. In 1970s she became an active member of the first Buddhist group in Poland. Although she moved to the Jelenia Góra region in 1983, she remains in touch with the artistic environment in Katowice.
She has taken part in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Works displayed in museums and private collections.