Pawel Wrobel was born in Szopienice in Silezia
(Poland). Because his unmarried mother was very poor his education was limited to three
classes of the elementary school. On the age of 10 years he started working as a miner.
In his paintings he gives much more colour and intensity to the grey miner’s life
than it has in reality. He depicts us in detail the town and village-scenes, social life,
parties, weddings and funerals.
Almost from the very beginning his art was received with great enthusiasm and he became
very popular. His paintings are present in the important Polish museums and in collections
in Poland and abroad. The Polish television made some very interesting documentaries over
his person and art. These successes went somewhat to Wrobel’s head. He started
drinking more and more and even claimed that he had an exposition together with Picasso in
Paris.
Source: Aleksander Jackowski: "Sztuka zwana naiwna; zarys encyklopedyczny tworczosci w Polsce". Warszawa 1995. pp. 222-223.
