Józef Marian Chełmoński

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

Life

Chełmoński, was born as the son of a member of Mazovia lesser nobility, the szlachta. His father was a landowner and headman of Boczki and brought the son of the first skills in drawing at. Later he studied from 1867 to 1872 drawing with Wojciech Gerson and then, from 1872 to 1875, at the Art Academy in Munich. In 1875 he moved to Paris, where he among other things worked as an illustrator for Le Monde illustré. In 1887 he returned to Poland.

Work

He painted mainly genre scenes, Polish and Ukrainian villages, hunting scenes and horses. An example of this is the oil painting Rest on a sleigh from the Parisian period of the artist.