Dimensions: 42 x 17 x 12 cm
Biography
Sculptor, medalist, draftsman, painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. A member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994, a student of Xawery Dunikowski. After graduating from the High School of Fine Arts, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He received his diploma in 1956. He creates captivating, intimate sculptures by combining bronze and stone into a single, fantastical form. His inspiration is always nature, with its extraordinary ingenuity of shapes and colors. He is also the author of numerous monumental works and monuments: the Oświęcim Pietà (1963), the sculpture of the Wawel Dragon (1969), the Monument to Piwnica pod Baranami (2000).
