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Plaque "Karolina Dzieduszycka"

Kazimierz Chodzinski

Basic information

ID: С-II-944
Author: Kazimierz Chodzinski
Name: Plaque "Karolina Dzieduszycka"
Date of creation: 1917
Country: Kingdom of Poland (?)
Culture: Modern times
Technique: moulding
Material: bronze
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 17.7 x 12.8

Additionally

Type: sculpture (relief)
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Kazimierz Chodzinski
Artist's lifetime: 1861–1919/1921
Country: Kingdom of Poland, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Kingdom of Poland, the Second Polish Republic
Biography: Kazimierz Mieczysław Chodziński (1861–1921 (1919?)) was a Polish sculptor, woodcarver, and medallist. He was born in 1861 in Łańcut to artist Karol Chodziński and Zofia Dubielowska. He began studying sculpture while still a student, and in 1878, continued his studies under Piotr Kozakiewicz in Krakow. From 1878 to 1885, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow under W. Gadomski. During his studies, he worked as a woodcarver in Lviv. He received a scholarship from the School of Fine Arts and moved to Vienna, where he studied under sculptor Edmund Helmer until 1887. In 1887, K. M. Chodziński's composition “Dancing Faun” received awards from the Kraków and Vienna academies. In the following years, the sculptor lived in Krakow. He became a member of the Art Salon (Artistic Society of Artists, Sculptors, and Builders), founded in Warsaw in 1888. In 1890, periodicals mentioned that the artist had acquired a “factory of church statuettes” in Krakow. According to several documentary sources, the artist created over a hundred figures for St. Dominic's Church in Kraków, numerous sculptures for cathedrals in Warsaw, Wrocław, and Sandomierz, and religious sculptures for Kalisz. In 1894, K. M. Chodziński was elected to the board of the newly established General Society of Polish Artists in Kraków. In 1897, he sent a design for a monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko to the United States (unveiled in Humboldt Park in Chicago in 1904). From 1903, he lived in the United States. In 1904, he began working on a project for a monument to C. Pulaski, which was unveiled in Washington in 1910. He created other projects for monuments and busts in North Carolina and Chicago. After returning to Poland, he settled in Lviv, where he worked mainly on medals depicting prominent figures of his time. He exhibited his works at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1880, 1884–1886, and 1890. He participated in exhibitions of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts from 1885 to 1888, 1893, 1897, 1911, and 1912, exhibiting portraits, sculptural compositions, plaques, and medals. In 1893, he received a second prize from the Society of Friends of Fine Arts. He died in 1921 (1919?) in Lviv.