Józef Chełmoński was one of the most important representatives of realist painting in Poland. He received his first drawing lessons from his father, who was talented both as a painter and a musician. Later Chełmoński studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the landscape and history painter Wojciech Gerson. Chełmoński’s work includes so-called genre scenes as well as depictions of Polish and Ukrainian villages, but also pictures of horses and entire hunting scenes.
