Gdynia Orlowo

Antoni Suchanek studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts 1917-23 and was director of the graphic art department of the Polish Library in Bydgoszcz. He painted many marine landscapes and exhibited works at the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Following the war, Suchanek worked as a portrait and landscape painter. He also published the folio Warsaw in Ruins, illustrated with his lithographs, that was later given to the Museum of the City of Warsaw. 1946 Suchanek settled in Gdynia, participating in that city's postwar artistic renaissance.