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Isabel Helen Piczek (November 14, 1927 – September 29, 2016), a world-renowned ecclesiastical and sacred artist, passed away peacefully in her home in Echo Park, California on September 29, 2016 at the age of 88. She was born in Hatvan, Hungary on November 14, 1927 to Zoltan and Elona Piczek. Her father Zoltan was a noted artist and art professor. Isabel graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and in addition to being a world class artist also became an internationally known Physicist, recognized for her study of the Shroud of Turin. Isabel shared her formative years as an artist with her sister Edith who also nurtured and developed her own artistic style. Their partnership blossomed and matured through the years. Edith was a frequent collaborator and Isabel’s lifetime companion until her death in 2012. Isabel was still a young student when she began to visualize the possibilities of a new sacred art form - a new liturgical vision. She realized early on that there would be no opportunity to create that vision in Hungary as it was then part of the suppressed world behind the Iron Curtain under Communist rule. Just after the end of World War II, Isabel and her sister fled the Communist regime in Hungary and escaped across the border into Austria. It was a difficult and often dangerous journey but they soon found their way to freedom. After a brief stay in Vienna, they literally “painted” their way across Europe, traveling from one monastery to another, enduring struggles and challenges along the journey. At one point they wandered in the snow of the Alps for three days until finally finding their way across the Italian border. They continued on to Rome which would become their home for the next three years.

In Rome, Isabel won the International Grand Award for her painting at the Galleria di Roma. As a result, though still only a teenager, she won the competition to paint a new mural. Isabel, already a prodigy, was only 14 years old but was commissioned to paint a 400 sq. ft. true fresco mural at the world famous Pontifical Biblical Institute owned by the Vatican. When she arrived to receive the award, officials doubted that such a young girl could have created the submitted art that had won the competition. To prove her ability they demanded that she complete the first third of the mural for free and that a panel of experts would judge her work. The judges were astonished at the quality and maturity and approved the completion of the commission. From that humble start, during their three-year stay in Rome, Isabel and her sister would go on to be hired and to complete 42 additional mural paintings. Declining a scholarship to move to in Paris, Isabel and her sister briefly lived in Canada before making the decision to come to America in 1956. They soon established their Studio, the Construction Art Center, in Echo Park close to downtown Los Angeles.

In 1992, Piczek was honored by Pope John Paul II in recognition of her prolific artistic achievements, examples of which can be found in nearly 500 different cathedrals, churches and other buildings across the world.^[1] Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, conferred on Piczek admission into the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and the title Dame of Saint Gregory, whereby she became one of only 70 Knights and Dames throughout the world to hold this honor.^[1]

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