Popel, Anton

Anton Sulima-Popel ( Polish: Antoni Sulima-Popiel ; June 13, 1865, Shchakova (now the district of the city of Jaworzno) - July 7, 1910, Lviv) - Polish sculptor, teacher. Brother of the painter Tadeusz Popel.

Anton Popel
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Citizenship	Poland
Genre	sculpture

He studied in Krakow at the local school of fine arts (1882–1885), later at the Vienna Academy of Arts (1885–1888). Since 1888 he lived in Lviv and worked as a teacher of drawing and sculpture at the Lviv Polytechnic . In Lviv, he had a studio in which his students Kazimir Malachinska-Paizderska, Luna Drexler, Mikhail Parashchuk and others received certain modeling skills. Later, the sculptor attracted Parashchuk to collaborate (in particular, when he made a monument to Adam Mitskevich in Lviv, made ornamental decoration during the construction of the Museum of Art industry (1898-1903), etc.).

He worked in the genres of memorial, monumental, portraiture, and sometimes religious plastics. For twenty-odd years of his life in Lviv, Anton Popel created a large number of sculptures, most of which survived to our time.

1901, Anton Popel, as one of the leading sculptors of Lviv, the city community elected a member of the Committee for the construction of the Church of St. Elizabeth in Lviv. In 1904 he was a member of the jury of the competition for the project of rebuilding the Skibnevsky estate in the village of Golozubintsy of the Khmelnitsky region.

1902, Anton Popel, designed by architect Vladislav Godovsky, built a villa for himself on the street. Issakovich, 6 (now - Gorbachevsky St.), which was rebuilt in the 1930s. In 2013, the villa was destroyed.

He was buried at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv on field number 57.