format: 29x22 cm, watercolor, signed lower right "Tymon," ca. 1946/47
Portrait of Franciszek Rychłowski, an actor at the “Ziemia Pomorska” Theater in Toruń, in the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 1946–47. Stanisław Rychlewski, born in 1872 in Łapiguz in the Zamość region. Polish actor and theater director, theater manager. In 1903, he performed in Płock, Włocławek, Lublin, Poznań, Łódź, Warsaw, and Vilnius. In 1912, he settled in Kyiv, where he directed theater companies in 1918. In 1932, he performed at the National Theater in Warsaw. After the war, he performed alongside his wife, Halina Dunin, in Toruń. In 1949, he moved to Gdynia, where he died during a rehearsal. He is buried in Toruń.
Tymon Niesiołowski (1882–1965) was a painter, graphic artist, and educator. He studied in Lviv and Kraków.
