Stefan CHMIELARSKI (1897-1971), Boxer - sculpture in the art déco style

cast bronze, chiseled, patinated; 89 x 45.5 x 22.5 cm;
Signed on base: StChmielarski;
Contemporary edition, number: 5/8, from a 1931 plaster model by the Lopienski Brothers.

Exhibited at:
- Great Spring Exhibition, May 1931, TZSP in Warsaw, item 214 (bronze cast made by the Lopienski Brothers factory);
- Mobile Art Exhibition, April-June 1932, Warsaw, item 88. (bronze cast by Lopienski Brothers factory);
- World Exhibition, 1939, New York, (bronze casting made by the Lopienski Brothers factory).
- 160 Years of the Lopienski Brothers Company, October 3-November 19, 2022, Warsaw, Poland (1/8 casting).

Reproduced:
160 Years of the Lopienski Brothers Company [exhibition catalog], published by the City of Warsaw, Warsaw 2022, p. 61, item 41 (1/8 casting).

The sculpture shows a silhouette of Polish boxer Henryk Chmielewski (1914-1998) - a European champion and Olympian, fighting in rings in the United States since 1938.

Stefan Chmielarski - sculptor, creator of applied art, architectural art and small figural forms in bronze, wood and metal. One of the founders of the "Moving Art Exhibition" Association. He studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studio of Professor Tadeusz Breyer in 1925- 1930. The artist was a member of the famous Warsaw "FORM - Sculpture Cooperative" founded in 1929 by professors and students of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Members of "FORM" included: Julia Keilowa, Alfons Karny, Antoni Kenar, Ludwika Nitschowa and Karol Tchorek.
The artist died in Cracow and was buried in Rakowicki Cemetery.