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Tadeusz Błotnicki (1858 in Lwów – 1928) - sculptor, active mainly in Cracow.
He was a disciple of Parys Filippi, Marcel Guyski, and Caspar Zambusch from Vienna. He was an author of many sculptures and busts in Cracow and throughout Galicia:
bust of Stanisław Konarski at the entrance to the crypt of the Piarists church [1] and inside the church
bust of Feliks Księżarski on the Palace of Arts, which can be seen from the Planty, made in 1901
allegory of Poetry, Drama and Comedy on the facade of the Słowacki Theatre in Cracow
monument to Marcel Guyski and Oskar Kolberg in the Rakowicki Cemetery
figure of Saint Joseph in the Capuchins church
monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1898) in Stanislawow
He was a known figure in the artistic spheres of the pre war Cracow; he was friends with Gabriela Zapolska, Teofil Lenartowicz and Jacek Malczewski who portraited him