BRONISŁAW CHROMY

Sculptures

   BRONISŁAW CHROMY - sculptor, medallist, painter, and draughtsman, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, member of the Polish Academy of Science and Letters.

   Born at Leńcze near Lanckorona in 1925, he was educated at the secondary School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating in 1956. He was a student of Prof. Xawery Dunikowski.

   His work are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Cracow, National Museum in Poznań and museums in Paris, Copenhagen, Moscow, Skopje, Helsinki, Barcelona, Dijon, Ravenna, and in private collections in Poland and abroad, in Australia, Japan and Canada.

   Bronisław Chromy is a reputed and very famous sculptor, who has individual artistic language. 

   He likes nature and likes to observe it. This is why he records it and tells story about it. Chromy seeks inspiration analyzing natural shapes of river pebbles. The nature alone suggests him a subject matter. Fragments of structurally different rocks coated with metal turn to bizarre trinkets, lambs, peacocks, docks, cosmic cuckoos and many others. Cosmology is another source of inspiration: constellations, solar system presentations of movement and whirls of light. Such fascinations effected in works like “The Bird of a Green Planet” or “Cosmic Turmoil”. 

   Prof. Chromy's sculptures have unique artistic and aesthetics virtues and communing with them is a source of immense pleasure.

Calendarium 2006