Antoni Popiel

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Antoni Sulima Popiel (born June 13, 1865 in Szczakowa (now a district of Jaworzno ); † July 7, 1910 in Lubień near Lemberg , now Lviv in Ukraine ) was a Polish sculptor.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1882 to 1884 , then from 1885 to 1888 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna .

After a short stay in Krakow, he moved to Lemberg in 1888, where he was employed at the Polytechnic as an assistant to Leonard Marconi at the chair for drawing and modeling. From 1895 to 1897 he worked in Florence , where he created the sculpture "Iustitia" for the Lviv courthouse and the Józef Korzeniowski monument in Brody .

In 1898 he received first prize in the competition for the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Lviv , which was unveiled on October 30, 1904.

After the death of Leonard Marconi (1835–1899) he took over the equestrian statue intended for Kraków by Tadeusz Kościuszko and completed it in 1900. The memorial was not erected on Wawel Hill until 1924, demolished and melted down by the Nazis in 1940, restored in 1960.

In 1900 he created sculptures for the Lviv Opera .

The Kornel Ujejski monument was unveiled in Lviv on December 8, 1901. It was dismantled by the Soviet authorities in 1944 and handed over to the Polish authorities in 1950. In 1956 the memorial came to Szczecin and was only officially unveiled on December 9, 2006.

In 1907 he received 2nd prize in the competition for the Tadeusz Kościuszko Memorial in Washington, DC At the request of President Theodore Roosevelt , the work was nevertheless intended for execution.

In November 2010, an exact copy of the Washington Monument was erected in Warsaw in front of the Lubomirski Palace . The Warsaw Monument was funded by the American CitiGroup and the Warsaw City Council.

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SURNAME Popiel, Antoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popiel, Antoni Sulima (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczakowa (district of Jaworzno )
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1910
Place of death Lubień near Lviv