Józef Chełmoński

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Józef Marian Chełmoński (born November 7, 1849 in Boczki in Powiat Łowicki in Poland , † April 6, 1914 in Kuklówka Zarzeczna ) was a Polish painter .

Life

Chełmoński was born as the son of a member of the Mazovian aristocracy, the Szlachta . His father was the landowner and village chief of Boczki and taught the son his first skills in drawing. He later studied drawing from 1867 to 1872 with Wojciech Gerson and then, from 1872 to 1875, at the Munich Art Academy . In 1875 he moved to Paris , where he a. a. worked as an illustrator for Le Monde illustré. In 1887 he returned to Poland.

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He mainly painted genre scenes , Polish and Ukrainian villages, hunting scenes and horses. An example of this is the artist's oil painting Rest with the horse-drawn sleigh from the artist's time in Paris.

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SURNAME Chełmoński, Józef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chełmoński, Józef Marian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Boczki (Kocierzew Południowy) , Powiat Łowicki , Poland
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1914
Place of death Kuklówka Zarzeczna