Dimensions: 109 x 92 x 40 cm
other titles: Study for the Head of Christ, Bust of Christ
described at the bottom, on the right with the edition number: 'III/6'
casting from 2008
edition: III/6
Literature
compare:
Aleksandra Melbechowska-Luty, Kreator: the sculptural work of Xawery Dunikowski, Warsaw 2012, pp. 114-115 (ill.).
Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Sztuka Młodej Polski, Kraków 2003, p. 23 (il.).
Wojciech Skrodzki, Polska sztuka religijna 1900-1945, Kraków 1989, p. 68 (il.)
Rzeźba polska od XVI do początku XX wieku, catalog of the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, ed. Dariusz Kaczmarzyk, Warsaw 1973, cat. no. 230, p. 98 (ill.)
Tadeusz Dobrowolski, Sztuka Młodej Polski, Warsaw 1963, p. 128 (ill.).
Mieczysław Treter, Ksawery Dunikowski. Próba estetycznej charakterystyki jego rzeźb, Lwów 1924, p. 17 (il.)
Biography
Xawery Dunikowski one of the most prominent Polish sculptors was born in 1875 in Cracow, died in 1964 in Warsaw. He began studying sculpture in 1894 in the Warsaw studio of Boleslaw Syrewicz, and later studied with Leopold Wasilkowski. In 1896-98 he studied sculpture under Alfred Daun at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. Until 1903, he continued his studies at the Cracow academy under Konstanty Laszczka. In 1902, his first solo exhibition was held at TPSP in Krakow. In 1904-10 he served as a professor of sculpture at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. Around 1906, he embarked on an artistic journey to the Middle East (Syria, Palestine) and Italy. In 1908, he joined the Society of Polish Artists "Art", with which he had already exhibited since 1903. From 1915 to 1921 he lived in Paris. From 1920 until the outbreak of World War II, he was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Arrested in 1940, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp until liberation. From 1946 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 1954 he moved to Warsaw and began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1959 he also held the chair of sculpture at the State School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. His muse and partner was the artist Sara Lipska (1882-1973), a great interior decorator and designer who worked in Paris. Dunikowski created sculptures in a symbolic spirit, unusual busts and portrait studies, and was also the author of many designs for monumental monuments.
