City view - the painting shows Freta street in Warsaw Old Town with Saint Spirit Church. In the bottom right corner, handwritten signature of the artist Wł. Chmieliński. Wooden frame, dedicated, originally gilded. Władysław Chmieliński (1911 Warsaw - 1979 Warsaw). He studied at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting in Warsaw between 1926 and 1931. He painted vedutas and rural genre scenes in oils and watercolours. Not only that, but he was most interested in city views from the Warsaw Old Town. In the second half of the 1930s, he created a series of watercolours depicting the monuments of Polish architecture (including Cracow, Kazimierz Dolny, Sandomierz, Lviv, Silesia). He also painted historical interiors of the Palace of Jan III Sobieski in Wilanów. In 1936-39 he used the pseudonym Władysław Stachowicz. He studied at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting in Warsaw in the years 1926-31. He painted vedutas and rural genre scenes in oil and watercolour techniques. Furthermore, he was most interested in city views from the Warsaw Old Town. In the second half of the 1930s, he created a series of watercolours depicting the monuments of Polish architecture (including Cracow, Kazimierz Dolny, Sandomierz, Lviv, Silesia). He also painted historical interiors of the Palace of Jan III Sobieski in Wilanów. In 1936-39 he used the pseudonym Władysław Stachowicz.
