Józef Chełmoński
Józef Marian Chełmoński (7 November 1849 – 6 April 1914) was a Polish painter of the Realism (art movement), realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romanticism in Poland, Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is famous for monumental paintings now at the Sukiennice Museum, Sukiennice National Art Gallery in Kraków and at National Museum, Warsaw, the MNW in Warsaw.Profile of Józef Chełmoński
at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute ''Culture.pl'' website.

Life

Chełmoński was born in the village of Boczki, Łowicz County, Boczki near Łowicz in central Congress Poland under the Russian Partition, Russian military control. His first drawing teacher was his father Józef Adam (a small leaseholder and administrator of Boczki village). His mother was Izabela n ...
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