Leonard Marconi

Leonard Marconi
Born	(1835-10-06)October 6, 1835 Warsaw, Russian Empire
Died	April 1, 1899(1899-04-01) (aged 63) Lviv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (part of Austria-Hungary)
Nationality	Polish-Italian
Education	Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Accademia di San Luca in Rome
Known for	Sculpture
Notable work	Façade of Galician Sejm Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Kraków Aleksander Fredro Monument in Wrocław

Leonard Marconi (Warsaw, 6 October 1835 – 1 April 1899, Lemburg) was a Polish and Austro-Hungarian architect and sculptor. He was active chiefly at Warsaw, then in Galicia, notably at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).

Life

Leonard Marconi was born on 6 October 1835 in Warsaw to a well-known artistic family of Italian origin. He was the son of sculptor Ferrante Marconi, nephew of architect Henryk Marconi, and cousin of Leandro Marconi, a famed architect. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, then the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

In 1861 he returned to Poland and opened an atelier in Warsaw. Fairly successful as a sculptor, in 1873 he was invited to Lwów (then in Austro-Hungarian Galicia) to become a professor at the Technical Academy (Polish: Akademia Techniczna), predecessor of the Lviv Polytechnic.

He died in Lviv on 1 April 1899 and is interred at Lychakiv Cemetery.

Gallery

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  Aleksander Fredro Monument, originally built in Lwów, moved in 1956 to Wrocław
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  Façade of Galician Sejm; now seat of Lviv University. Marconi also decorated the interior.
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  Frédéric Chopin's epitaph in Warsaw's Holy Cross Church, where his heart reposes
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  Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument on Kraków's Wawel Hill
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  Copy of Marconi's Kraków monument to Kościuszko, in Detroit, Michigan

See also

• Enrico Marconi