Cyprian Godebski (sculptor)

Cyprian Godebski (* October 30, 1835 in Méry -sur -Cher in France, † November 25, 1909 in Paris) was a Polish sculptor.

Cyprian Godebski was the grandson of the writer Cyprian Godebski and son of historian Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, curator of the Lviv Ossolineum Institute. He attended Polish Elementary School in Batignolles and studied sculpture in Paris under François Jouffroy. In 1858 he moved to Lviv, in 1861 and 1863 to Vienna to Saint Petersburg, where he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.

During the stay in Paris, he led an artistic and literary salon. In 1877 he was elected a member of the French National Academy in 1889 appointed an Officer of the Legion of Honour. His daughter, Misia Sert, was a patron of the artist.

Works (selection)

  • Liberation Monument in Lima, capital of Peru (1859-1866)
  • Statue of Field Marshal Gideon Ernst von Laudon, 1864, Field Marshal's Hall Museum of Military History in Vienna Arsenal
  • Statue of Field Marshal Franz Moritz von Lacy, 1864, Field Marshal's Hall Museum of Military History in Vienna Arsenal
  • Monument Adrien -François Servais, Grote Markt, Hall (1869 )
  • Adam Mickiewicz Monument (Warsaw ) ( 1898)
  • Copernicus Monument in Cracow ( 1900)
  • Alexander Fredro monument in Krakow
  • Portrait busts of famous celebrities Lemberger
  • Monuments of Agenor Gołuchowski, Adam Potocki, Taras Shevchenko,
  • Tombs in Poland and France, among others, Otto Hausner, Théophile Gautier, Hector Berlioz, Constantin Guys, Enrico Tamberlik.
Museum of Military History, Vienna Arsenal (Vienna) Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw Integrated Authority File
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