- Paul Landowski
Paul Maximilien Landowski (
June 4 ,1875 –March 27 ,1961 ) was a French monumental sculptor of Polish ancestry.He was born in
Paris to refugees of the PolishJanuary Uprising , and died inBoulogne-Billancourt . A graduate of the French national academy, he won thePrix de Rome in 1900 with his statue ofDavid , and went on to a fifty-five year career that produced over thirty five monuments in the city of Paris and twelve more in the surrounding area. Among those is theArt Deco figure ofSt. Genivieve on the 1928Pont de la Tournelle .The single best-known work associated with Landowski is the 1931 Christ the Redeemer statue in
Rio de Janeiro , a collaboration with civil engineerHeitor da Silva Costa ; some sources indicate Landowski designed Christ's head and hands.From 1933 through 1937 he was Director of the
French Academy in Rome . He was the father of the painter,Nadine Landowski (1908-1943), the composerMarcel Landowski (1915-1999) and the pianist and painter,Françoise Landowski-Caillet (1917-2007).A museum dedicated to Landowski's work is in the
Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris with over 100 works on display.Gallery
External links
* [http://www.ilovefiguresculpture.com/masters/france/landowski/landowski.htm Web gallery of twentieth Century figure sculpture]
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