Cyprian Godebski

Monument to Artur Grottger in the Dominican Church in Lviv

Adam Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw

Statue of the Notre-Dame des Naufragés (Mother of God of the castaways)

Cyprian Godebski (born October 30, 1835 in Méry-sur-Cher in France , † November 25, 1909 in Paris ) was a Polish sculptor.

Cyprian Godebski was the grandson of the writer Cyprian Godebski and the son of the historian Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, curator of the Lviv Ossolineum Institute. He attended the Polish elementary school in Batignolles and studied sculpture in Paris with François Jouffroy . In 1858 he moved to Lviv , 1861 to Vienna and 1863 to Saint Petersburg , where he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts .

During his stay in Paris he ran an artistic-literary salon. In 1877 he was elected a member of the French National Academy, and in 1889 an officer of the Legion of Honor . His daughter, Misia Sert , was a patron of the artists.

Works (selection)

Liberation Monument in Lima , the capital of Peru (1859–1866)
Statue of Field Marshal Gideon Ernst von Laudon , 1864, Feldherrenhalle of the Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal
Statue of Field Marshal Franz Moritz von Lacy , 1864, Feldherrenhalle of the Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal
Monument Adrien-François Servais , Grote Markt, Halle (1869)
Adam Mickiewicz Monument (Warsaw) ( 1898 )
Copernicus Monument in Krakow (1900)
Alexander Fredro Monument in Krakow
Portrait busts of well-known Lviv celebrities
Monuments by Agenor Gołuchowski, Adam Potocki, Taras Shevchenko ,
Tombs in Poland and France, including by Otto Hausner , Théophile Gautier , Hector Berlioz , Constantin Guys , Enrico Tamberlik.

literature

Stanisław Nicieja: Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie w latach 1786–1986 . Ossolineum 1989, ISBN 83-04-03320-8
Godebski, Cyprian . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 287–288 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Cyprian Godebski - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Allmayer-Beck, Johann Christoph : Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum Wien. The museum and its representative rooms . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , p. 35.

personal data
SURNAME	Godebski, Cyprian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Méry-sur-Cher
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 1909
Place of death	Paris

[1] Allmayer-Beck, Johann Christoph : Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum Wien. The museum and its representative rooms . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , p. 35.