The exhibition of outdoor sculptures in the gardens of the Wawel Royal Castle celebrates the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Wawel Dragon statue. Examples of the artist's oeuvre are also exhibited in the Bolesław Chromy Gallery in the Decius Park in Kraków.
lt is hard not to come across Bronisław Chromy's works as you walk around the Wawel Hill. Nestled among the trees on the Planty Garden Ring encircling the Old Town, there are three stone Owls dating from 1959. Near the Kossakówka manor house, a group of three monumental eagles from 1992 stands as a remarkably vivid monument to the Soldiers of Fighting Poland. T he Czerwieński Boulevard is home to Dżok the Dog, an artistic tribute to a dog's unflagging fidelity; the story encapsulated in the sculpture is still moving even today. Yet it is towards the statue of the Wawel Dragon that all those walking the boulevard inevitably direct their steps.
Bronisław Chromy
Polish sculptor, medal list, painter and graphic designer. He was born in 1925 in Leńcze near Lanckorona and died in 2017 at the age of ninety-two in Kraków, where he had lived and worked since his youth. After graduating from the Secondary School of Fine Arts, he began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. A student of Xawery Dunikowski, he graduated in 1956. He was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. A man of great heart, Bronisław Chromy was highly popular in Kraków's artistic and cultural circles, and his numerous artistic and social endeavours made him a loved figure among the city's inhabitants. Bronisław Chromy owed his farne as an artist in an equal measure to his monumental sculptures, figurines, medals, paintings and graphic art. Thanks to his talent, indefatigable energy and assiduity, he worked almost until the age of ni nety, producing arts of work in his signature style that made them so uniquely distinctive.
Exhibition organisers: Wawel Royal Castle and Bronisław Chromy Foundation.
