Галина Стельмащук • Марія Гарасовська-Дачишин

130 Peremyshl, in 1921 he was given a parish in the Sebechev village (84 km from Lviv). Maria was 10 years old at that time. Father Stanislaw Harasowsky was a highly educated person, he knew five languages, and did a lot for the education of his children. He cultivated love for art in his daughter, and her mother Natalia cultivated love for music in her. From childhood Mariya learned to paint, play piano, sing and to recite poetry. Mika and her 3 siblings also studied at Gymnasia (High School). Maria studied at the LvivWomen’s Teachers’ Seminary (1928-1929). In Lviv she had an opportunity to visit the home of the writer Fedir Dudko, as she was his daughter’s friend. At Dudko’s, she met artists, poets, writers and musicians from Eastern Ukraine and Halychyna. She received her first painter’s case as a gift from the painter Yuriy Mahalevskiy, a pupil of Ilya Repin. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1921-1935 he was creating mural paintings at a row of churches in the Lviv area, including in the Sokal region. At the Lviv Teachers’ Seminary, Marai developed her skills of music and singing, and started training for the entrance exam to the Academy of Arts in Krakow. In order to master the art of drawing, specifically anatomical, more perfectly, she joined the school of Professor Yuzef Megoffer, where her teacher was Leopold Gottlieb. After training under Professor Gottlieb, Maria successfully passed the competitive exam and in 1932 she was admitted to the General department of the Academy of Arts in Krakow. There, her teachers were famous artists like – Vladislav Yrotskiy, Stanislav Filipkevych, Kazymyr Sikhulskiy. Within the course of two years she studied the art of sculpture from Xawery Dunikowski. In her graduation certificate there are listed all disciplines, which she studied in the period of 1932-1933. These were drawing, figurative art, painting of landscapes, sculpture, cast, moulding, evening drawing, graphic art, anatomy, perspective, technology of painting, history of art, history of architecture, work in material. At evening painting class, pupils had to make quick sketches. In the third year of education, the 18 best students of the Krakow Academy of Arts were chosen for training in Vienna. Maria was one of them, as she won the competitive prize in the class of Kazymyr Sikhulskiy. In Vienna, Maria decided to continue her further studies of painting