Dimensions: 50.5 x 70 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Wł. Chmieliński'.
Biography
Studied at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting in Warsaw between 1926 and 1931. He painted vedutas and rural genre scenes in oil and watercolor technique. He was most fond of immortalizing urban views of Warsaw's Old Town. In the second half of the 1930s, he made a series of watercolors depicting monuments of Polish architecture (including Cracow, Kazimierz Dolny, Sandomierz, Lviv, Silesia). He also painted historical interiors of the Palace of Jan III Sobieski in Wilanow. In 1936-39 he used the pseudonym Władysław Stachowicz. In the 1960s he spent time in Denmark, painting landscapes there.