Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Wł. Chmieliński'.
on the reverse: gallery stamp (repeated on the artist's loom) and stamp of the collection of painting accessories, notes on the loom and a paper sticker with the artist's biography
Provenance
private collection, Denmark
private collection, Germany
DESA Unicum, October 2010
private collection, Poland
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 techniques. 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.