Henryk GLICENSTEIN (1870-1942), "Boy with Mandolin," 1896

bas-relief, bronze, size: 39 x 30 cm,
engraved signature medr. d.: H. Glicenstein / Roma 1896

Sculptor, painter and printmaker, trained at the Munich academy (1889-1895), where he received medals in 1892 and 1894; in 1895 the Berlin academy honored him with the Prix de Rome medal for his sculpture "Arion." His period spent in Rome between 1895 and 1910 brought him fame, he exhibited extensively in Europe and received numerous awards. In 1910 he briefly took over the chair of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, vacated by X. Dunikowski. After the war spent in Poland, he returned to Rome, accepting Italian citizenship. From 1928 he settled permanently in New York. Glicenstein is considered the most outstanding Jewish sculptor of the interwar years. He made sculptures in wood, marble, plaster and bronze, and there were works in various formats - badges, monumental sculptures, sculptural groups. Initially stylistically referring to the classics of academism, with time inspired by impressionism. The artist participated in exhibitions of the TAP "Art", the Vienna Hagebund and the Munich and Berlin Secession.