[3] During the German occupation of Poland he was an underground educator, which was constantly threatened by the death penalty.

[5] In Interwar period Vetulani worked in the Fine Arts Section of Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education in Warsaw – see picture below.

After the end of the war Vetulani worked as an artistic director at the Silk Factory in Milanówek.

He was stripped of his office in 1954, after refusing to sign up to the Polish United Workers' Party, according to Vetulani's long-time collaborator and friend, Bożena Kowalska.

[7] Since 1953 he taught at the State Visual Arts Gathering in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, an institution led by a painter Edward Kokoszko.