Kazimierz Chodziński (Casimir) (1861 – 1919 or 1921) was a Polish sculptor, and a student of

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academy in

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. He sculpted over a hundred different statues in

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, as well as some other European cities, such as

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. Around 1903–1910 he worked in the United States, where he designed, among others, the Tadeusz Kościuszko statue in

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and the General Casimir Pulaski statue in

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Biography

Kazimierz Chodziński was born in 1861 in

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. His father was a painter. Chodziński worked as an artist, painting and sculpting, gathering resources that allowed him to enroll in

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in Austrian partition of Poland and study under the sculptor

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and the famous painter

. As a student, he won an art competition, sold his first serious work ("Egyptian Woman" ), and around 1881, obtained a government scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under

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. He received a number of other awards and scholarships, finishing his studies in 1887. Afterward he returned to

, where he opened a studio specializing in sculptures for religious and monumental buildings. Later, he moved his studio to

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(capital of the

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), due to better conditions for exporting his work. Around 1903–1910 he worked in the United States. His designs from that period include the Tadeusz Kościuszko statue in

– originally placed in Humboldt Park, and later moved to what is now the city's lakeside

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– and the General Casimir Pulaski statue in

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. Chodziński died in 1919 in

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(Lwów), then in the newly independent

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Selected works

Some of his most famous works include: "Egyptian Woman," "Old Man," "Boy," "Dancing Faun," "Joyous Life," "Lord of the World," "Czesnik and Regent," "Boy's Head," "Girl's Head," "Readying for the Ball," "Praying Prisoner".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chodzinski, Kazimierz 1861 births 1921 deaths 20th-century Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors 20th-century Polish male artists 19th-century Polish sculptors Sculptors from Austria-Hungary