Pawel DRAGON (1929), "Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Zamarska," 1995

oil, panel, 11 x 20 cm, signed p.d.: P. Dragon; l.d.: 92/95.

Psychiatrist by profession, former director of a hospital in Rybnik. His painting refers to the rituals of the Beskid highlanders, paints sacred architecture, he is the author of 87 paintings depicting wooden churches, which he painted for the Bishop's Curia in Katowice. He has participated in numerous exhibitions of non-professional art, received many awards, and had solo exhibitions. The artist's works are in the ethnographic collections of, among others, the Museum in Bielsko-Biała, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Museum in Rybnik, the Museum in Zabrze, the Beskidzkie Museum in Wisła. (Lit.: "Intuitive Artists from the Collections of the Colours of Silesia by Stanisław Gerard Trefon," Ruda Śląska 2015, vol. I, p. 144)