Jozef chelmonski biography definition

Polish painter (–)

Józef Marian Chełmoński (7 November – 6 April ) was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is famous for monumental paintings now at the Sukiennice National Art Gallery in Kraków and at the MNW in Warsaw.^[1]

Life

Chełmoński was born in the village of Boczki near Łowicz in central Congress Poland under the Russian military control.

His first drawing teacher was his father Józef Adam (a small leaseholder and administrator of Boczki village). His mother was Izabela née Łoskowska. After finishing high school in Warsaw, Józef studied in Warsaw Drawing Class (&#;) and took private lessons from Wojciech Gerson. From to Chełmoński lived in Munich.

Biography: Józef Chełmoński - THE ART BOG

He worked with Polish painters assembled around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. There, he also studied for a few months at the academy of H. Anschutz and A. Strahuber. In and Chełmońs Józef Chełmoński — Google Arts & Culture TIL