Antoni Popiel

Antoni Popiel Sulima ( born June 13, 1865 in Szczakowa (part of Jaworzno ); † July 7, 1910 in Lubień in Lviv ) was a Polish sculptor.

He studied from 1882 to 1884 at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, then from 1885 to 1888 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

After a short stay in Krakow in 1888, he moved to Lviv, where he was employed at the Polytechnic as an assistant to Leonard Marconi at the department of drawing and modeling. 1895 to 1897 he worked in Florence, where he created the sculpture for 'Justice ' for the Lemberger courthouse and the Józef Korzeniowski monument in Brody.

In 1898 he was awarded the first prize in the competition for the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Lviv, which was unveiled on 30 October 1904.

After the death of Leonard Marconi (1835-1899), he took over the Krakow certain equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko and brought it to completion in 1900. The monument was only in 1924 situated on the Wawel Hill, demolished in 1940 by the Nazis and melted down, restored in 1960.

In 1900, he created sculptures for the Lviv Opera.

The Kornel Ujejski monument was unveiled on December 8, 1901 in Lviv. It was mined by the Soviet authorities in 1944 and 1950 passed the Polish authorities. 1956, the monument to Stettin was officially unveiled until 9 December 2006.

In 1907 he was awarded the second prize in the competition for Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Washington, DC. Upon request of President Theodore Roosevelt, the work was still determined to run.

In November 2010, an exact replica of the Washington Monument in Warsaw was built before the Lubomirski Palace. The Warsaw monument was financed by the U.S. CitiGroup and the Warsaw City Council.

Tympanum of the Lviv Opera

Tadeusz Kościuszko monument in Krakow

Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Warsaw