Stanisław Jackowski

Stanisław Jackowski (1887 in Warsaw – 1951 in Katowice) was a Polish sculptor, and nephew of novelist Bolesław Prus.

Life

Stanisław Jackowski was born in 1887 to Polish parents in Warsaw, in the part of Poland then ruled by the Russian Empire.

In 1909-11 he trained at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts ("Akademia Sztuk Pięknych") under Konstanty Laszczka, and also studied the history of art at Kraków University, in the Austrian-ruled part of Poland. In 1911-12 he attended Colarossi's Academy.

Before World War II Jackowski lived and worked in Warsaw. He was a member, and for many years president, of the "Rzeźba" (Sculpture) Society.

Jackowski died in 1951 in Katowice, Poland.

Works

In 1912 Jackowski designed the Powązki Cemetery tomb of his uncle, the famous Polish novelist Bolesław Prus. The monument bears on three sides, respectively, the writer's actual name Aleksander Głowacki, his dates of birth and death, and his pen name Bolesław Prus. On the fourth side is the inscription "Serce serc" ("Heart of hearts"), borrowed from the Latin inscription "Cor cordium" on the tomb of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in Rome's Protestant Cemetery; [Miłosz Kotarbiňski, pp. 148, 151.] and below this inscription is the figure of a little girl embracing Prus' tomb — a figure emblematic of Prus' well-known empathy and affection for children. [Tadeusz Hiż, "Godzina u pani Oktawii" ("An Hour at Oktawia Głowacka's"), p. 279.] [Gabriela Pauszer-Klonowska, "passim."]

Jackowski created over a dozen monuments, including those of Tadeusz Kościuszko and Jan Kiliński in Warsaw. [Miłosz Kotarbiński, p. 151.]

He also designed many portraits in marble and bronze, including the 1936 memorial to Bolesław Prus in Warsaw's Holy Cross Church. [Miłosz Kotarbiński, p. 151.] Set into the marble plaque is a bronze bas-relief profile of Prus, his actual and pen names, dates of birth and death, and the inscription, "great writer and teacher of the nation."

Jackowski also produced a series of sculptures, "Tańcerka" (Dancer), one of which, created in 1927, stands in Warsaw's Skaryszewski Park.

ee also

*List of Polish artists

Notes

References

*"Katalog rzeźb Stanisława Jackowskiego" (Catalog of Sculptures by Stanisław Jackowski), Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie (Society of Friends of the Fine Arts in Kraków), Kraków, 1951.
*Dariusz Kaczmarczyk, "Rzeźba polska od XVI do początku XX wieku: Katalog zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie" (Polish Sculpture from the 16th to the Beginning of the 20th Century: Catalog of Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw), Warsaw, 1973.
*Hanna Kubaszewska, "Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających: Malarze, rzeżbiarze, graficy" (Dictionary of Polish and Foreign Artists Active in Poland: Painters, Sculptors, Graphic Artists), vol. 3, Wrocław, 1979.
*Miłosz Kotarbiński, "Kilka luźnych wspomnień o Bolesławie Prusie" ("Several Loose Reminiscences about Bolesław Prus"), in Stanisław Fita, ed., "Wspomnienia o Bolesławie Prusie" (Reminiscences about Bolesław Prus), Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1962, pp. 147-48, 151.
*Tadeusz Hiż, "Godzina u pani Oktawii" ("An Hour at Oktawia Głowacka's"), in Stanisław Fita, ed., "Wspomnienia o Bolesławie Prusie" (Reminiscences about Bolesław Prus), Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1962, p. 279.
*Gabriela Pauszer-Klonowska, "Ostatnia miłość w życiu Bolesława Prusa" (The Last Love in the Life of Bolesław Prus), Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1962.