Jakub Tatarkiewicz (31 March 1798, Warsaw - 3 September 1854, Warsaw) was a Polish sculptor in the Classical style.

Biography

He received his primary education in

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schools; showing an early talent for music and drawing. From 1817 to 1822, he studied in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Warsaw, where his instructors included

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and

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in Rome; returning to Warsaw through Switzerland, France and Germany. His first orders for sculptures came from the Grand Theatre and the poet/statesman, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, who was an acquaintance of Thorvaldsen. In 1833, he entered a competition for the post of "Professor of Sculpture" at the

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. He won the competition, but never assumed his post, due to cutbacks related to the recent

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, which nearly resulted in the University's closure. From 1834 to 1840, he taught modeling and drawing at the . His major statues include "Dying Psyche" at the Grand Theatre, and figures of Stanisław Kostka Potocki and his wife

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, on the at

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. Notable among his numerous busts are those of Klementyna Hoffmanowa and

Samuel Linde Samuel Gottlieb Linde (polonised ''Samuel Bogumił Linde''; 11 or 24 April 1771, in Toruń – 8 August 1847, in Warsaw) was a linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the Polish language. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum ...

. He also did portrait medallions. The philosopher and historian, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, was his grandson.

Source

* ''Poczet wielkich rzeźbiarzy'' (Among the Great Sculptors); Michał Domański; Instytut Wydawniczy "Nasza Księgarnia" (Our Bookstore), Warsaw 1981, pgs. 49–50,

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