Tadeusz Błotnicki
Illustration — Tadeusz Błotnicki; portrait by Jacek Malczewski • Illustration — Monument to Michał Bałucki in the Planty from 1911 Tadeusz Błotnicki (8 October 1858, Lwów - 28 March 1928, Kraków) was a Polish sculptor, active mainly in Kraków. He was a disciple of Parys Filippi, Marcel Guyski, and Kaspar von Zumbusch, from Vienna, and created many sculptures and busts in Cracow and throughout Galicia. He was also a known figure in the artistic spheres of pre-war Cracow and was friends with Gabriela Zapolska, Teofil Lenartowicz and Jacek Malczewski, who painted his portrait.
Tadeusz Błotnicki
Jacek Malczewski · cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl · Public domain
- Born
- 1858 · Lviv.
- Died
- 1928 · Kraków.
- Nationality
- Second Polish Republic
- Occupation
- sculptor · university teacher
- Education
- Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
- Languages
- Polish
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Illustration — Tadeusz Błotnicki; portrait by Jacek Malczewski • Illustration — Monument to Michał Bałucki in the Planty from 1911 Tadeusz Błotnicki (8 October 1858, Lwów - 28 March 1928, Kraków) was a Polish sculptor, active mainly in Kraków. He was a disciple of Parys Filippi, Marcel Guyski, and Kaspar von Zumbusch, from Vienna, and created many sculptures and busts in Cracow and throughout Galicia. He was also a known figure in the artistic spheres of pre-war Cracow and was friends with Gabriela Zapolska, Teofil Lenartowicz and Jacek Malczewski, who painted his portrait.
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• bust of Stanisław Konarski at the entrance to the crypt of the Piarists church and inside the church • bust of Feliks Księżarski on the Palace of Arts, which can be seen from the Planty, made in 1901 • allegory of Poetry, Drama and Comedy on the facade of the Słowacki Theatre in Cracow • monument to Marcel Guyski and Oskar Kolberg in the Rakowicki Cemetery • figure of Saint Joseph in the Capuchins church • monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1898) in Stanislawow
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