Bazili Wojtowicz ( Polish: Bazyli Wojtowicz ; April 2, 1899, Chornoreki (now Subcarpathian Voivodeship , Poland ) - April 3, 1985, Poznan ) - Polish sculptor , teacher.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Selected Works
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
Biography
In 1923 he began to study the art of sculpture in Warsaw under the guidance of Henryk Kuhn . He continued his studies at the capital's School of Applied Arts with the sculpture professor Jan Schepkovsky . Since 1925 - student of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts . Pupil of Tadeusz Breuer .
Since 1936, he owned a workshop of decorative, later from 1938, a workshop of monumental sculpture at the State School of Decorative Arts and Crafts in Poznan . In 1956 - an extraordinary professor.
He brought up a number of famous Polish sculptors.
Creativity
The author of a number of monumental sculptures, sculptural portraits. While still a student, he participated in contests for the creation of monuments, occupying high places. He reached the peak of his work by creating a monument to Adam Mickiewicz in front of the University in Poznan, about which the outstanding Polish scientist and demanding art historian Professor Zdislav Kepinsky said, “that this is probably the best monument to the poet built in all time in Poland” [1]
Selected Works
- Monument to Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan (1960)
- The sculpture "Nika" in the park "Citadel" in Poznan
- sculptural portrait of Ciprian Norvid (1929)
- Sculpture "Archer" (Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936)
- sculptural portrait of his wife and others.
Notes
- ↑ Profesor Bazyli Wojtowicz i jego uczniowie: (katalog wystawy) ISBN 83-918425-2-5
Literature
- TWÓRCZOŚĆ BAZYLEGO WOJTOWICZA. WYSTAWA JUBILEUSZOWA NA 80 URODZINY. Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu. 1979