Maria Gażycz

Maria Gażycz, née Maria Nowina-Chrzanowska (20 March 1860, Vishera, Kursk Governorate – 13 September 1935, Grodno) was a Belarusian-born Polish figure painter, art restorer, and nun in the order of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.

In 1878, she had her first exhibition at the Zachęta and married Konstantin Gażycz (1848-1900), who owned an estate in the Grodno Region.

[1] Later, she studied in Munich and, from 1891 to 1895, attended the Académie Julian in Paris, where she worked with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

The following year she converted to Catholicism and, in 1906, entered the convent of the Sisters of Nazareth in Rome.

Until 1919, she served at the Sisters' convent dedicated to the Annunciation in Grodno, followed by service in Lublin.

Self-portrait with Palette (1896)