Sculptor. He received notoriety as a Polish sculptor in the 20th century. All throughout the city of Krakow, his modern, patinated-bronze statues can be seen on public display: His fire-breathing twenty-foot bronze piece, "The Wawel Dragon" and huge bronzed hands embrace the canine in "Dzok, the Faithful Dog." With huge thin wheels of green-patinated bronze and little focus on the riders, the sculpture,“The Cyclist,” is located in front of the Museum of Sport and Tourism in Warsaw. Using the media of granite, metal and an occasional semi-precious stone, he was a prolific artist for over fifty years producing gigantic pieces for parks to small medallions. His subjects varied from pieces of Greek mythology and history to astronomy, music, animals and religion. Many of his sculptures can be admired in the Author's Gallery of Sculpture by Bronisław Chromy in the Park Decius in Krakow. A bust with wind-blown hair of Polish author and painter, Stanislaw Wyspianski was created by him and placed in this park. Outside of Poland, his pieces can be found in the United States, France, Australia, England, Japan, Norway, Spain, Russia, and other countries. Besides being a sculptor, he was a painter for years during his summer vacations at the Summer Work House in Masuria with exhibitions of his paintings displayed every year at the Author's Gallery. Coming from a large family living in poverty in the tiny village of Lencze, he was forced to work on the farm at an early age forgoing much of his formal education. His mother supported his artistic talents. After World War II, he left home for a position at the Artistic Metal Foundry of Franciszek Tiesler in Krakow. He traveled to Paris, France to study art, and would have had a easier life staying there, but instead returned to Krakow, which was worn-torn from the Nazi Invasion and followed by Communist rule. He graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in 1950 and at the Arts and Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1956, studying under Xawery Dunikowski. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. From 1981 to 1984, Professor Chromy was the vice rector at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in the Department of Graphic Arts and the Department of Drawings and Painting. He taught at the academy from 1969 to 1995. In Poland, he proudly produced several monuments recognizing the military, and in the Brookwood Military Cemetery near London, his monument stands in honor of the Polish soldiers, who were killed in the Battle of Britain during World War II. Along with receiving numerous awards for art competitions, he was the recipient the Officer's and Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Bronze Medal Cracoviae Merenti, the Medal of the National Education Commission and in March of 2009 the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis. Shortly before his death, he published his autobiography, "Stone and Dream." "I forge my dreams in stone, knowing that I owe the people who paid taxes and taxes during my studies and studies," wrote the sculptor in the last sentence of the autobiography.