Władysław Malecki

Władysław Aleksander Malecki (3 January 1836, Masłów - 5 March 1900, Szydłowiec) was a Polish landscape painter in the Realistic style.

His father worked as a government clerk, calculating the income from farms and industrial plants.

Initially, he worked as a stage decorator for Antonio Sacchetti, an Italian set designer who had come to Poland in 1829.

In 1880, he returned to Poland and, unable to find steady employment as a decorative painter, turned to teaching art at a private school in Koło.

[2] Later, he wandered through several small cities without any means of subsistence until 1898, when the Mayor of Szydłowiec, who liked his work, allowed him to live and have his studio in the Town Hall bell tower.