Edward Wittig
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Edward Wittig (September 20, 1879 – March 3, 1941) was a Polish sculptor and university professor, notable for designing many monuments in Warsaw.
Born in Warsaw, Wittig went on to study
Zachęta gallery in Warsaw (since 1900), at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts of Kraków, and the Venice Biennale
in 1920 and 1934.
Between 1915 and 1920, he was one of the professors of the
Park Ujazdowski
in Warsaw.
In the 1920s, Wittig's style became very popular in Poland and abroad, mostly due to its
Polish Military Organization in front of the Zachęta. It was destroyed by the Germans prior to the Warsaw Uprising, but reconstructed in 1999. Another notable work is the 1931 monument to World War I airmen. The Germans destroyed it by removing the sculpture from the top of its pedestal in 1940, but it was rebuilt in 1968 by Alfred Jesion. In 1932, Wittig also prepared the monument to Juliusz Słowacki, which was not erected until 2001, well after his death in Warsaw in 1941, during the Nazi and Soviet occupation of Poland
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References
- Dariusz Kaczmarzyk, ed. (1973). Rzeźba polska od XVI do początku XX wieku. Warsaw: National Museum of Poland. pp. 148+549.
- Stanisław Rutkowski (1925). Edward Wittig. Warsaw.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Władysław Kozicki (1925). Edward Wittig. Rozwój twórczości. Warsaw.
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edward Wittig.
- (in English) Hero of the Skies monument
- (in Polish) Ewa by Wittig with the picture of the Paris version
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