This obelisk with a plaque, funded by the town, was unveiled in 2005 in Kazimierz Brodziński street where Samlicki was killed by a car carrying Soviet soldiers.
On 25th February 2005, the Town Council of Bochnia passed a resolution stating: “In connection with the 60th anniversary of the death of Bochnia’s remarkable painter Marcin Samlicki, 2005 shall be called “The Year of Marcin Samlicki””. To celebrate the anniversary the council decided to create a commemorative plaque, organize exhibitions and popularise the work of the artist in publishing houses as well as to organize a scientific symposium and knowledge contest.”
MARCIN SAMLICKI (1878 – 1945) – a Polish painter and colourist. From 1900 he attended Cracow’s School of Fine Arts. In the beginning, he joined Józef Unierzyski’s course and finally got involved in the landscape course of Jan Stanisławski. The essence of Stanisławki’s school of “light catchers” was open-air painting which encouraged getting to know the life of villages and was in line with the Galician fascination with folklore. In 1908 he went on artistic journeys to Vienna and Italy. In 1910 he visited Munich, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Berlin, Dresden and Italy again. He was the co-founder of “Zielony Balonik” cabaret in Cracow’s Jama Michalikowa where he was also a singer. He spent a great number of years in Paris studying at the Académie de Grande la Chaumiere and was a part of Paris artistic bohemia. He spent World War I in a camp in southern France. The artist came back to the country in 1928 to settle in Bochnia and in his work he started to present Bochnia and the near vicinity (Łapczyca, Nowy Wiśnicz, the valley of Raba) more often. He was the co-founder of Cracow’s Group of Ten (Grupa Dziesięciu) in 1931. From 1936 he was a lecturer at the Cracow’s ASP. He died in the car incident after the end of World War II. Samlicki’s grave is in Bochnia cemetery under a sycamore which the artist supposedly planted himself.
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