August Zamoyski
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Count August Zamoyski was a Polish sculptor, member of groups Bunt
Bunt
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 and Formiści.

Zamoyski was an author of stone compositions in simplified and geometrised form. His first works was influenced by French cubism
Cubism
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...

 and Itialian futurism
Futurism
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. In 1920s he developed his own, monumental style in which he referred to Classicism
Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint...

. In his last period, Zamoyski was an author of expressive religious works.

Selected works

  • Ich dwoje (c. 1917)
  • Leopold Zborowski portrait (1924)
  • Akt (1928)
  • Głowa Wierki (1928)
  • Fryderyk Chopin monument, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1944)
  • Assis Chateaubriand monument, São Paulo, Brazil (c. 1950)
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