August Zamoyski

Nu, sculpture by Zamoyski, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Count August Zamoyski (June 28, 1893 in Jabłoń, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland – May 19, 1970 in Saint-Clar-de-Rivière, France) was a Polish sculptor, member of groups Bunt and Formiści.

Zamoyski was an author of stone compositions in simplified and geometrised form. His first works was influenced by French cubism and Itialian futurism. In 1920s he developed his own, monumental style in which he referred to Classicism. 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)
• Frédéric Chopin monument, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1944)
• Assis Chateaubriand monument, São Paulo, Brazil (c. 1950)

References

• "Zamoyski August". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2007-11-02. 
• "Zamoyski August". WIEM Encyklopedia (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-11-02.