Bronislaw Chromy, Owl, circa 2000.

Patinated bronze, stone 7.00 x 4.00 x 2.50 cm, signed with a punch on the bottom: B.Chromy

"Pocket" sculpture from 2000. Owls have been a recurring sculptural motif in Bronislaw Chromy's work - he made his first owls of much larger size as early as the 1960s. Chromy's owls still decorate Krakow's Planty Park near Wawel.
Bronislaw Chromy (1925 - 2017) - sculptor, medalist, painter, draughtsman, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. After graduating from the High School of Fine Arts, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. A student of Xawery Dunikowski.
In his work Bronislaw Chromy takes up a wide range of subjects. Notable among them are sculptures with historical and martyrological themes (Pieta Oświęcimska, 1963), musical themes (Monument to Frederic Chopin, 2005), cosmological themes (Copernicus, constellations and star systems) and animalistic themes. Among the unusual sculptures and monuments that have already permanently grown into Krakow's landscape, we should certainly mention the Wawel Dragon from the Vistula River(1969), the Fountain of the Players from Wolnica Square, the Owls from the Planty, the Sheep from the square in front of the Agricultural Academy, as well as the monument to the dog Dżok (2001), located on the Vistula boulevards near Wawel.