Xawery Dunikowski
Xawery Dunikowski (also Xaver Dunikowski ; born November 24, 1875 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary , † January 26, 1964 in Warsaw ) was a Polish sculptor .
He began his art studies in 1896 at the Cracow Art Academy . His early works: Motherhood 1900, Odem 1904, Fatum 1904, Pregnant Women 1906 brought him fame.
In 1905 he shot the painter Wacław Pawliszak, but was not arrested. In 1914 he came to London on a scholarship. He then served in the French Foreign Legion.
Dunikowski became a professor at the Cracow Art Academy in 1922. Before 1939 he created several memorial sculptures.
He was arrested after the German invasion of Poland in 1939. From 1940 to 1944 he was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Dunikowski survived the stay in the camp. After the war he worked as a freelancer and received several official orders from the Polish government. Dunikowski's post-war style was characterized by monumental-realistic portrait busts and propaganda monuments. A museum for his works was set up in Warsaw's Królikarnia Palace in 1965 and still exists today. Posthumously, Dunikowski Ridge was named after him in the late 1970s , a mountain ridge on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica.
Xawery Dunikowski's grave in Warsaw
Bust of a worker in Wroclaw created by Dunikowski
Monument to Mayor Josef Dietl in Krakow (1936)
The Annaberg Memorial (1955)
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| SURNAME | Dunikowski, Xawery |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunikowski, Xaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1964 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |