Leonard Marconi

Leonard Marconi ( born October 6, 1835 in Warsaw, † April 1, 1899 in Lviv ) was a Polish sculptor of Italian descent, the son of Italian sculptor Ferrante Marconi, who lived in Poland since 1828, nephew of the Warsaw architect Enrico Marconi.

He studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, 1859-1861 in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. 1862-1873 he had a sculpture workshop in Warsaw. In 1873 he came to Lviv, where he was appointed lecturer at the Technical University.

As a sculptor he was mainly concerned with the portrait and tomb sculpture and the architectural sculpture.

Works (selection)

  • Epitaph of Carrara marble in the Warsaw Cross church with the heart of Frederic Chopin ( 1880).
  • Sculpture decoration of the facade and the interiors of the Galician parliament in Lemberg (now the main building of the Lviv University ) ( 1879-1888 )
  • Alexander Fredro Monument in Lviv, treated from 1945 to Wroclaw,
  • Tadeusz Kościuszko monument in Krakow ( a copy is located in Detroit, USA)
  • Thrift, sculpture on the facade of the Galician savings bank in Lviv
  • Sculptures on the facade of the Hotel George in Lviv
  • Two tombs on the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv
  • Sculptures by the Kronenberg Palace Warsaw
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