Wacław Szymanowski
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Wacław Szymanowski (23 August 1859Template:Spaced ndash22 July 1930) was a Polish sculptor and painter. He is best known for his statue of composer Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw's Royal Baths Park (Łazienki Park).
Life
Szymanowski was born in Warsaw and was the son of Template:Ill, the journalist and writer (9 July 1821 – 21 December 1886), and the father of Template:Ill, the physicist and politician (14 April 1895 – 15 January 1965).[1]
Until about 1895 the painter-cum-sculptor occupied himself mainly with executing genre paintings of Polish mountaineers and Hutsuls, and portraits.[1]
He then turned to sculpture, creating compositions in Art Nouveau-Symbolist style. He designed the monuments to Artur Grottger in Kraków (1907) and to Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw; tomb monuments (including his father's at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery); and portrait busts.[1] He died in Warsaw at age 70.
Chopin monument
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Notes
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References
- Encyklopedia powszechna PWN (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), vol. 4, Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1976.
- Encyklopedia Warszawy (Encyclopedia of Warsaw), 1994.
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- 1859 births
- 1930 deaths
- Polish male sculptors
- 19th-century Polish painters
- 19th-century Polish male artists
- 20th-century Polish painters
- 20th-century Polish male artists
- Artists from Warsaw
- Art Nouveau painters
- Art Nouveau sculptors
- 20th-century Polish sculptors
- 19th-century Polish sculptors
- Polish male painters
- Painters from the Russian Empire