Leonard Marconi
Leonard Marconi (born October 6, 1835 in Warsaw , † April 1, 1899 in Lemberg ) was a Polish sculptor of Italian descent.
Life and origin
Leonard Marconi was the son of the Italian sculptor Ferrante Marconi, who had lived in Warsaw since 1828, and the nephew of the architect Enrico Marconi, who also emigrated there . His cousin Władysław Marconi was an architect and one of the leading conservationists in the Kingdom of Poland before 1916.
Marconi first studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts before completing his training as a sculptor at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome between 1859 and 1861 . After completing his studies, he returned to Warsaw, where he ran a sculpture workshop from 1862 to 1873. In 1873 he moved to Lemberg, where he was appointed lecturer at the Technical University and carried out numerous projects in public spaces.
As a sculptor, Marconi mainly dealt with portraits and tombs. However, his focus was also on architectural sculptures.
In 1899 he was buried in the famous Lützenhof cemetery in Lemberg.
Works (selection)
- Carrara marble epitaph in the Warsaw cruciform church with the heart of Frédéric Chopin (1880)
- Sculptured decoration of the facade and the interior of the Galician Landtag in Lemberg, today the main building of the Lviv University (1879–1888)
- Aleksander Fredro-Monument in Lviv , in 1945 to Breslau added
- Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Krakow , a copy is in Detroit
- Thrift , sculpture on the facade of the Galician Savings Bank in Lviv
- Sculptures on the facades of the Hotel George in Lviv
- Two tombs in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv
- Sculptures at the Kronenberg Palace Warsaw
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SURNAME | Marconi, Leonard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1835 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1899 |
Place of death | Lviv |