Paweł Maliński
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Paweł Maliński (1790-1853) was a Bohemia-born sculptor and mason.


Training

Maliński was born in Berniau,
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,
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. In 1804 he enrolled at the
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. In the years 1810-1816 he studied at the
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under the direction of the sculptor
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. Maliński made architectural sculptures adorning the facades and interiors of buildings and churches, statues, tombstones and portraits generally maintained in the neoclassical style.


Career

In 1816, he arrived in
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at the invitation of
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, who entrusted him with the execution of the sculptural decoration for rebuilding the
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. In 1817 he was appointed a professor of sculpture at the
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. He held this position until the closure of the Department of Fine Arts after the fall of the
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. In the years 1820-1822 he went on a government scholarship to Italy, where he spent two years (1820-1822) he worked under the direction of
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. Maliński developed including such students as
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,
Władysław Oleszczyński Władysław Oleszczyński (17 December 1807 in Końskowola – 11 April 1866 in Rome) was a Polish sculptor who created a monument of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań and the tombstone of Juliusz Słowacki at the Montmartre Cemetery The Cemet ...
, and
Jakub Tatarkiewicz Jakub Tatarkiewicz (31 March 1798 in Warsaw – 3 September 1854 in Warsaw) was a Polish sculptor in the Classical style. Biography He received his primary education in Piarist schools; showing an early talent for music and drawing. From 181 ...
.


References

* Wladyslaw Lesniewski: History of Polish art. T. III Modern Art. Kraków: Penguin Books, 1965, p 89 * Maria Irena Kwiatkowska: Sculptors Warsaw nineteenth century. Warsaw: 1995. . Sculptors from the Russian Empire Immigrants to the Russian Empire Sculptors from the Austrian Empire Emigrants from the Austrian Empire 1790 births 1853 deaths Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni {{Poland-artist-stub