Cast bronze, patinated, pedestal - granite
Total height 48.5 cm, height of the figure 40 cm
Engraved badge on the pedestal: Marian Konieczny.
The bronze on offer is a reduction of the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, which was unveiled in Philadelphia in 1979. This monument is one of the most important works of the artist, who has more than 20 realizations in the field of monumental sculpture.
Marian Konieczny (Jasionowo 1930 - Kraków 2017) is a sculptor, who passed the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1948. Studying under Xawery Dunikowski, he earned his diploma under his direction in 1954. Over the next four years he studied at the I.E. Repin Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad. In 1958, he joined the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 1974 he became an associate professor, and in 1988 he took up a full professorship. From 1972 to 1981 he was the rector of the academy.
He was the author of dozens of monuments in Poland and abroad, including. "To the Heroes of Warsaw- Nike Warsaw" (1964), the Monument to the Revolutionary Deed in Rzeszow (1974), the Grunwald Monument in Cracow (1976), the Monument to Maria Sklodowska-Curie in Lublin (1964), the Monument to Gregory of Sanok in Sanok (1985), the Monument to Jan Matejko in Warsaw (1989), Edward Mandell House Monument in Warsaw (1991), Wincenty Witos Monument in Warsaw 1985), Bartosz Glowacki Monument in Janowiczki near Raclawice (1994), John Paul II Monument in Licheń (1999) and in Lezajsk (2000), Apollo Fountain in Poznan (2002), Tadeusz Kosciuszko Monument in Philadelphia (1979), Stanislaw Wyspianski Monument in Krakow (1981), Glory and Martyrdom Monument in Algiers (1982), Abdel Kader Monument in Algiers (1987), Royal Epitaph in Poznan Cathedral (1995), John Paul II Monument in Lichen (1998), Jan Zamoyski Horse Monument in Zamosc (2005), Jozef Pilsudski Monument in Suwalki (2014).
