Władysław Ślewiński

Władysław Ślewiński studied at Académie Julian. The recorded working language is Polish and French. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are France, Brittany and Poland. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw. Work by Władysław Ślewiński is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw, Musée d'Orsay, National Museum in Kraków, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and National Museum in Wrocław.

• Illustration — Orphan from Poronin, National Museum, Warsaw He was born in Nowy Białynin to a landowning family and his mother died in childbirth. His cousin, the painter Józef Chełmoński, noticed his artistic talent and advised his father to enroll him at the drawing school operated by Wojciech Gerson. His father resisted at first, but finally agreed. In 1886, he inherited his family's properties in Pilaszkowice Pierwsze, which soon led to his financial ruin. Two years later, hounded by Russian tax collectors, he fled to Paris, where he first decided to take up painting as a career. From 1888 to 1890, he studied at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian. In 1889 he made friends with Paul Gauguin and became associated with the School of Pont-Aven; spending most of his time at Le Pouldu in Brittany. He was an exhibitor at the Salon des Indépendants in 1895 and 1896. From 1905 to 1910, he was back in Poland, serving briefly as a Professor at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts and opening his own art school. In 1910, he returned to France. He died in the Hôpital Cochin and was buried in Bagneux.