Magdalena Shummer-Fangor was born in 1930 in Lubliniec, Poland, and is an art historian and painter. Shummer-Fangor is the widow of the late renowned Polish-American artist Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015), with whom she lived in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, London, the USA and Warsaw. Her paintings are intentionally about simple domestic subjects, such as flowers, plants, cats, dogs, or fairy tales. Addressing the archetypes painted in a naïve manner and framed in thick wooden frames they resemble folk art from an unspecified part of the world. Magdalena Shummer-Fangor graduated in art history at the University of Warsaw and was exhibited in Europe and America.