Jan Raszka (sculptor)
Jan Raszka (also Johann Raszka , born May 2, 1871 in Roppitsch , † November 23, 1945 in Krakow ) was a Polish sculptor and painter .
Life
After high school in Teschen , Raszka studied from 1892 to 1899 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Julius Victor Berger , Siegmund L'Allemand , August Eisenmenger , Edmund von Hellmer and Caspar von Zumbusch . From 1900 he stayed briefly in Paris . Two years later Raszka taught at the arts and crafts department of the State Crafts School in Cracow , which he also headed as director from 1922 to 1931 .
Raszka presented his works to the public in numerous exhibitions, for example in the Vienna Künstlerhaus and in Kraków's exhibition rooms.
At the beginning of the First World War he enlisted in the Polish Legion , an independent formation within the Austro-Hungarian Army . In 1916 he applied for admission to the Imperial and Royal War Press Headquarters and wrote that his specialty was "equestrian portraits, such as those of Emperor Franz Joseph I , Archduke Eugen , Archduke Otto , Count Heinrich Clam-Martinic etc." . Since the beginning of the war he had made "an autograph memorial plaque for the legionnaires' home in Vienna, a one-sided memorial medal for fallen legionnaires, medals for Rutowsi and Roktina and fallen Silesian legionnaires" . His request was granted by the AOK , and so on August 11, 1916, Raszka was appointed war sculptor for the Polish Legion.
Works by Jan Raszka can be found in Cracow, Przemyśl , Kattowitz , Skotschau , Zawiercie , Krosno , Teschen and Bogucice . As a sculptor, he mainly created monuments , especially for soldiers who fell in the World War; as a painter he worked in the field of genre painting , decorative painting and church paintings.
Works (excerpt)
- Equestrian statuette of Emperor Franz Joseph I , 1901, bronze hollow casting , 66 × 23.5 × 72 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
- Statue of Duke Mesko I of Teschen , Teschen
- Groups of miners and steel workers ; before the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy Cracow
literature
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 141.
- Raszka, Jan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 29 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raszka, Jan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 29 .
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 141.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raszka, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raszka, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roppitsch |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1945 |
| Place of death | Krakow |