- Jozef Mazur
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name = Jozef C. Mazur
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birthname = Jozef C. Mazur
birthdate = birth date|1897|3|17|mf=y
location =Buffalo, New York
deathdate = death date and age|1970|4|23|1897|3|17|mf=y
deathplace =Buffalo, New York
nationality = American
field = Painter,Stained Glass
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awards =Jozef C. Mazur (
March 17 ,1897 –April 23 ,1970 ) was anPolish-American (Galician) stained glass artist, painter and sculptor. His works can be found signed as Josef Mazur, Joseph Mazur, Joe Mazur and J. C. Mazur.Life
Was born in a Galician family in 1897. He studied at the
Albright Art School in Buffalo and at theArt Students League of New York . Mazur worked in a variety of media. His stained glass works can be found in churches inPhiladelphia ,New York City and Buffalo. Before he became 30, Mazur distinguished himself as an ecclesiastical painter in this area. His first commission was the complete decoration ofSt. Stanislaus Church in Buffalo. His paintings can also be found inSt. Adalbert's Basilica , Blessed Trinity, thePolish National Cathedral , St. John Gualbert's, and Villa Maria Academy. He also did murals atHoly Trinity inNiagara Falls , statuary for St. Aloysius inSpringville and stained glass windows for St. Barbara in Lackawanna. Mazur also painted many churches outside of Western New York including Rochester, NY,Chicago, Illinois ,Detroit, Michigan ,Adams, Massachusetts ,New Haven, Connecticut , and Trenton and Perth Amboy in New Jersey. Churches that feature his stained glass include SS. Rita & Patrick in Buffalo and Our Lady of Czestochowa Church inNorth Tonawanda . Mazur's secular works include the sculpted bust ofFrederick Chopin , a life-size portrait ofKazimierz Pulaski in Olean, and interior decoration at the UB Main Street Campus.Mazur and the University at Buffalo's Polish Room
In 1955 Mr. Mazur donated a four panel, stained glass chandelier depicting
Frederic Chopin ,Adam Mickiewicz ,Juliusz Słowacki and,Ignacy Paderewski to the Polish Room. He also donated four stained glass window medallions of,Marie Curie ,Nicolaus Copernicus and, two as of yet unidentified Poles. Some time before 1978 the four window hangs went missing, of which only Marie Skłodowska Curie's has been recovered. [http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=50826]ee also
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Polish Cathedral style
*St. Adalbert's Basilica
*Buffalo, New York
*Marie Skłodowska-Curie Medallion
*East Side, Buffalo
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