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{{Short description|Polish sculptor (1835–1909)}}
{{Dablink|For a Polish poet serving in [[Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)|Napoleonic Legions]] see [[Cyprian Godebski]]}}
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'''Cyprian Godebski''' (30 October 1835 – 25 November 1909) was a [[Poland|Polish]] sculptor and from 1870 a professor at the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] in St. Petersburg. He was the grandson of Polish poet and novelist [[Cyprian Godebski]], creator of the "Legions poetry" [[literary genre|genre]], who had served in [[Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)|Napoleon's Polish Legions]].<ref name="C-PL">{{pl icon}} Piotr Szubert, [[Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw]], [http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_godebski_cyprian "Cyprian Godebski biography"] Instytut Adama Mickiewicza ''(Adam Mickiewicz Institute)'', February 2002</ref>
'''Cyprian Godebski''' (30 October 1835 – 25 November 1909) was a Polish sculptor known in the Russian Empire and Paris. From 1870 he was a professor at the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] in [[St. Petersburg]]. He was the grandson of Polish poet and novelist [[Cyprian Godebski (poet)|Cyprian Godebski]], creator of the "Legions poetry" [[literary genre|genre]], who had served in [[Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)|Napoleon's Polish Legions]].<ref name="C-PL">{{in lang|pl}} Piotr Szubert, [[Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw]], [http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_godebski_cyprian "Cyprian Godebski biography"] Instytut Adama Mickiewicza ''(Adam Mickiewicz Institute)'', February 2002</ref>


Cyprian Godebski is remembered for having won the contest for the [[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]] in [[Kraków]], but also for having lost that [[Commission (art)|commission]] to a newcomer, [[Teodor Rygier]], whose more popular design was ultimately adopted by the city in 1889.<ref name="K-PL">[http://www.krakow.pl/en/miasto/abc/?id=18.html Adam Mickiewicz Monument] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308000000/http://www.krakow.pl/en/miasto/abc/?id=18.html |date=March 8, 2008 }} at the City's official website, ACK Cyfronet AGH, 2009.</ref> Godebski, however, created an equally revered Mickiewicz monument in [[Warsaw]], erected 10 years later on ''[[Krakowskie Przedmieście]]'', for which he was awarded 50,000 [[ruble]]s by the Committee to Erect the Adam Mickiewicz Monument (''Społeczny Komitet Budowy Pomnika'').
Cyprian Godebski is remembered for having won the contest for the [[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]] in [[Kraków]]. But he lost that [[Commission (art)|commission]] to a newcomer, [[Teodor Rygier]], whose more popular design was ultimately adopted by the city in 1889.<ref name="K-PL">[http://www.krakow.pl/en/miasto/abc/?id=18.html Adam Mickiewicz Monument] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308031812/http://www.krakow.pl/en/miasto/abc/?id=18.html |date=March 8, 2008 }} at the City's official website, ACK Cyfronet AGH, 2009.</ref>


Godebski, however, was commissioned for his equally revered Mickiewicz monument in [[Warsaw]], erected 10 years later on ''[[Krakowskie Przedmieście]]'', for which he was awarded 50,000 [[ruble]]s by the committee to Erect the Adam Mickiewicz Monument (''Społeczny Komitet Budowy Pomnika'').
The Warsaw statue was destroyed by the German [[Nazis]] during [[World War II]], in 1942, and was recreated in 1955 using the head and a fragment of the torso recovered in [[Hamburg]].<ref name="mickiewicz">{{en icon}} {{cite web |url = http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=7&dz_id=12 |title = Adam Mickiewicz Monument |work=Treasures of Warsaw on-line |publisher=Warsaw City Hall |page = |accessdate =18 September 2008}}</ref>
The Warsaw statue was destroyed by German [[Nazis]] in 1942 during [[World War II]]. It was recreated in 1955 using the head and a fragment of the torso recovered in [[Hamburg]].<ref name="mickiewicz">{{in lang|en}} {{cite web |url = http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=7&dz_id=12 |title = Adam Mickiewicz Monument |work = Treasures of Warsaw on-line |publisher = Warsaw City Hall |page = |access-date = 18 September 2008 |archive-date = 22 November 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071122070122/http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=7&dz_id=12 |url-status = dead }}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Godebski received his art education at the Paris studio of sculptor [[François Jouffroy]]. He lived and worked in [[Lwow]] from 1858 and in 1861 moved to [[Vienna]], where he worked on commissions from the Imperial court of [[Austro-Hungary]]. In 1863 Godebski moved to Paris again, and lived alternately in France and in Belgium. In 1870 he accepted the nomination for the professorship at the Russian Academy of Arts and moved to St. Petersburg for several years. He was in Warsaw in 1870 and 1875.
Godebski received his art education at the Paris studio of sculptor [[François Jouffroy]]. He lived and worked in [[Lwów]] from 1858 and in 1861 moved to [[Vienna]], where he worked on commissions from the Imperial court of [[Austro-Hungary]]. In 1863 Godebski moved to Paris again, and lived alternately in France and in Belgium. In 1870 he accepted the nomination for the professorship at the Imperial Russian Academy of Arts and moved to St. Petersburg for several years. He lived in [[Warsaw]] in 1870 and 1875.


Godebski married Zofia Servais, Russian-Belgian daughter of renowned Belgian cellist [[Adrien-François Servais]] (1807-1866) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.servais-vzw.org/en/?en |title= Servais Society (English)|publisher= The Servais Society}}</ref> and his wife. He and Zofia had a daughter, [[Misia Sert|Maria Zofia Godebska]], known by the diminutive Misia, but the mother died shortly after her birth in 1872. Godebski sent the infant girl to his late wife's family in [[Halle, Belgium]] to be raised for several years.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://blog.europeana.eu/2019/03/from-russia-with-love-misia-sert-queen-of-paris/|title=From Russia with love: Misia Sert, queen of Paris|last=Taes|first=Sofie|date=March 30, 2019|website=[[Europeana]] (CC By-SA)|language=en-GB|access-date=1 May 2019}}</ref>
Cyprian married the half-Belgian, half-Russian Zofia Servais, and became the father of Maria Zofia Godebska, later known as pianist [[Misia Sert]] who later had considerable influence within Parisian artistic circles.<ref name="T-M">John Day, [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819213,00.html Time Magazine], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716054919/http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/printout/0%2C23657%2C819213%2C00.html |date=July 16, 2006 |title="Borderline of Bohemia" with profile of Misia Sert }}</ref> Her mother, a daughter to a noted musician [[Adrien-François Servais]], had died giving birth to her on 30 March 1872 while in [[Tsarskoye Selo]], where Godebski was engaged in reconstruction of the tsarist palace. He married again, to sculptor Matylda Rosen, and while in Warsaw in 1875 ran an artistic salon with her for the local elite. Following his return to Paris, Godebski organized a new popular [[Salon (gathering)|artistic and literary salon]]. In 1877, he was nominated as member of the French National Academy, and in 1889 received the medal and title of the [[Chevalier of the Legion of Honour]]. From 1897 he was the first president of the Artistic and Literary Club of Paris.<ref name="C-PL" />


Godebski married again after Zofia's death, to sculptor [[Matylda Rosen]]. (He later remarried again.) While they were living in Warsaw in 1875, they ran an artistic salon for the local elite. Following his return to Paris, Godebski organized a new popular [[Salon (gathering)|artistic and literary salon]].
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The [[South-West Brabant Museum]] in [[Halle, Belgium|Halle]] has a collection on his life and work.<ref>Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, [http://www.tento.be/musea/zuidwestbrabants-museum Zuidwestbrabants Museum] {{nl}}</ref>

===Honors===
In 1877, he was nominated as a member of the French National Academy. In 1889 Godebski received the medal and title of the [[Chevalier of the Legion of Honour]]. From 1897 he was the first president of the Artistic and Literary Club of Paris.<ref name="C-PL" />

===Legacy===
After several years, Godebski had reclaimed his daughter Misia and brought her to Paris, where she was educated at Sacre Coeur, a convent boarding school. Among her teachers was [[Gabriel Fauré]], who taught piano. When she first left home she supported herself by giving piano lessons to students he referred to her.

Starting as a pianist in Paris, and later known as [[Misia Sert]], she hosted artistic salons
for decades. (She was married three times.) Misia was a muse to [[Toulouse Lautrec]] and others, and had considerable influence within early 20th-century Parisian artistic circles.<ref name="T-M">{{cite magazine |title=Borderland of Bohemia |date=November 9, 1953 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819213,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716054919/http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/printout/0%2C23657%2C819213%2C00.html |archive-date=July 16, 2006}} Review of the book ''Misia and the Muses'' by John Day.</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/from-russia-with-love-misia-sert-queen-of-paris | title=Misia Sert, queen of Paris | date=30 March 2019 }}</ref> Misia (Godebska) Sert became a friend of [[Proust]], poet [[Mallarmé]], and artist painters such as [[Monet]] and [[Renoir]], as well as musicians. [[Maurice Ravel]] dedicated several compositions to her. Sert was the business partner and best friend of [[Diaghilev|Serge de Diaghilev]], impresario of the influential [[Ballets Russes]].

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A collection on Godebski's life and work is held by the [[South-West Brabant Museum]] in [[Halle, Belgium]], the longtime home of his father-in-law Servais.<ref>Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, [http://www.tento.be/musea/zuidwestbrabants-museum Zuidwestbrabants Museum] {{in lang|nl}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
* Bust of [[Gioachino Rossini]], Paris (1865).
* Monument to Independence in [[Lima]], Peru, (1866–1859)
* Monument to Independence in [[Lima]], Peru, (1856–1859)
* [[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]] in [[Warsaw]] (1898)
* [[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]] in [[Warsaw]] (1898)
* [[Allegories]] and grave [[statues]] in Paris, France, to [[Théophile Gautier]] and [[Hector Berlioz]] at [[Montmartre]] and [[Père-Lachaise]]
* [[Allegories]] and grave [[statues]] in Paris, France, to [[Théophile Gautier]] and [[Hector Berlioz]] at [[Montmartre]] and [[Père-Lachaise]], respectively
* Statue to [[Artur Grottger]] in [[Lwow]]
* Statue to [[Artur Grottger]] in [[Lwow]]
* Monument to [[Aleksander Fredro]] in front of [[Juliusz Słowacki Theatre|Słowacki Theatre]] near [[Planty Park]] in [[Kraków - Stare Miasto|Kraków Old Town]]
* Monument to [[Aleksander Fredro]] in front of [[Juliusz Słowacki Theatre|Słowacki Theatre]] in [[Kraków - Stare Miasto|Kraków Old Town]] near [[Planty Park]]
* Monument to astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] at the ''[[Collegium Novum]]'', [[Jagiellonian University|Kraków University]]
* Monument to astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] at the ''[[Collegium Novum]]'', [[Jagiellonian University|Kraków University]]
* "Genius and Brute Force" 1888, white marble, 2.6 m, state commission, [[Toulon]] Musée d'art and [[Musée Sainte-Croix]] in [[Poitiers]], France
* ''Genius and Brute Force'' (1888) white marble, 2.6 m, state commission, [[Toulon]] Musée d'art and [[Musée Sainte-Croix]] in [[Poitiers]], France


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<gallery align="center" widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="4">
File:Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie 2019c.jpg|Godebski's [[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]], [[Warsaw]]
File:Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie 2019c.jpg|Godebski's [[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]], [[Warsaw]]
File:Our Lady of the Shipwrecked.jpg|Our Lady of the Shipwrecked (Cyprian Godebski) - [[Pointe du Raz]] - [[France]]
File:Our Lady of the Shipwrecked.jpg|Our Lady of the Shipwrecked (Cyprian Godebski) - [[Pointe du Raz]] - [[France]]
File:Père-Lachaise - Division 11 - Galezowski Tamberlick 02.jpg|Angel by Cyprian Godebski on Galezowski and Tamberlick families' tomb, [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]
File:Père-Lachaise - Division 11 - Galezowski Tamberlick 02.jpg|Angel by Cyprian Godebski on Galezowski and Tamberlick families' tomb, [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]
File:Kraków - Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika 02.JPG|[[Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków]]
File:Kraków - Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika 02.JPG|[[Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków]]
</gallery></center>
</gallery>


==Notes==
==Notes==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*[http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_godebski_cyprian Cyprian Godebski biography] at www.culture.pl
*[http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_godebski_cyprian Cyprian Godebski biography] at www.culture.pl
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080308031812/http://www.krakow.pl/en/miasto/abc/?id=18.html Adam Mickiewicz Monument] at the City's official website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080308031812/http://www.krakow.pl/en/miasto/abc/?id=18.html Adam Mickiewicz Monument] at the Kraków's official website.
* John Day, [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819213,00.html Time Magazine],
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205044730/http://website.lineone.net/~jdspiers/misia.htm A Biography for People who influenced Ravel]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205044730/http://website.lineone.net/~jdspiers/misia.htm A Biography for People who influenced Ravel]


==External links==
==External links==
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Cyprian Godebski
Cyprian Godebski, c. 1909
Born30 October 1835
Méry-sur-Cher
Died25 November 1909(1909-11-25) (aged 74)
Paris
NationalityPolish
Known forSculpture
Notable workNicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków,
Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw,
Statue of Adrien François Servais
MovementRealism
ChildrenMisia Sert

Cyprian Godebski (30 October 1835 – 25 November 1909) was a Polish sculptor known in the Russian Empire and Paris. From 1870 he was a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He was the grandson of Polish poet and novelist Cyprian Godebski, creator of the "Legions poetry" genre, who had served in Napoleon's Polish Legions.[1]

Cyprian Godebski is remembered for having won the contest for the Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków. But he lost that commission to a newcomer, Teodor Rygier, whose more popular design was ultimately adopted by the city in 1889.[2]

Godebski, however, was commissioned for his equally revered Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw, erected 10 years later on Krakowskie Przedmieście, for which he was awarded 50,000 rubles by the committee to Erect the Adam Mickiewicz Monument (Społeczny Komitet Budowy Pomnika). The Warsaw statue was destroyed by German Nazis in 1942 during World War II. It was recreated in 1955 using the head and a fragment of the torso recovered in Hamburg.[3]

Biography

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Godebski received his art education at the Paris studio of sculptor François Jouffroy. He lived and worked in Lwów from 1858 and in 1861 moved to Vienna, where he worked on commissions from the Imperial court of Austro-Hungary. In 1863 Godebski moved to Paris again, and lived alternately in France and in Belgium. In 1870 he accepted the nomination for the professorship at the Imperial Russian Academy of Arts and moved to St. Petersburg for several years. He lived in Warsaw in 1870 and 1875.

Godebski married Zofia Servais, Russian-Belgian daughter of renowned Belgian cellist Adrien-François Servais (1807-1866) [4] and his wife. He and Zofia had a daughter, Maria Zofia Godebska, known by the diminutive Misia, but the mother died shortly after her birth in 1872. Godebski sent the infant girl to his late wife's family in Halle, Belgium to be raised for several years.[5]

Godebski married again after Zofia's death, to sculptor Matylda Rosen. (He later remarried again.) While they were living in Warsaw in 1875, they ran an artistic salon for the local elite. Following his return to Paris, Godebski organized a new popular artistic and literary salon.

Honors

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In 1877, he was nominated as a member of the French National Academy. In 1889 Godebski received the medal and title of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. From 1897 he was the first president of the Artistic and Literary Club of Paris.[1]

Legacy

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After several years, Godebski had reclaimed his daughter Misia and brought her to Paris, where she was educated at Sacre Coeur, a convent boarding school. Among her teachers was Gabriel Fauré, who taught piano. When she first left home she supported herself by giving piano lessons to students he referred to her.

Starting as a pianist in Paris, and later known as Misia Sert, she hosted artistic salons for decades. (She was married three times.) Misia was a muse to Toulouse Lautrec and others, and had considerable influence within early 20th-century Parisian artistic circles.[6][7] Misia (Godebska) Sert became a friend of Proust, poet Mallarmé, and artist painters such as Monet and Renoir, as well as musicians. Maurice Ravel dedicated several compositions to her. Sert was the business partner and best friend of Serge de Diaghilev, impresario of the influential Ballets Russes.

A collection on Godebski's life and work is held by the South-West Brabant Museum in Halle, Belgium, the longtime home of his father-in-law Servais.[8]

Works

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b (in Polish) Piotr Szubert, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, "Cyprian Godebski biography" Instytut Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz Institute), February 2002
  2. ^ Adam Mickiewicz Monument Archived March 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at the City's official website, ACK Cyfronet AGH, 2009.
  3. ^ (in English) "Adam Mickiewicz Monument". Treasures of Warsaw on-line. Warsaw City Hall. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2008.
  4. ^ "Servais Society (English)". The Servais Society.
  5. ^ Taes, Sofie (March 30, 2019). "From Russia with love: Misia Sert, queen of Paris". Europeana (CC By-SA). Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Borderland of Bohemia". Time. November 9, 1953. Archived from the original on July 16, 2006. Review of the book Misia and the Muses by John Day.
  7. ^ "Misia Sert, queen of Paris". 30 March 2019.
  8. ^ Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, Zuidwestbrabants Museum (in Dutch)

References

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  • Maciej Masłowski: Cyprian Godebski – Listy o sztuce – opracowanie krytyczne, wstęp i komentarze (Cyprian Godebski – Letters of Art – A Critical Analysis, Introduction and Comments), Kraków 1970, ed. Wydawnictwo Literackie (Literary Press).

Further reading

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