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1879 Frenstat, Moravia, Czech Republic - 1965 Winter Park, Florida. Known for: Sculptor-heroic figure, public monument.
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Albin Polasek was a 20th-century sculptor, working in a variety of mediums including stone, bronze, plaster and wood. He also did occasional painting. Polasek's legacy is the sculpture he created,... Read full biography
Albin Polasek was a 20th-century sculptor, working in a variety of mediums including stone, bronze, plaster and wood. He also did occasional painting. Polasek's legacy is the sculpture he created, primarily figurative works with which he strove for sound construction and reflection of the true... Read full biography
Albin Polasek was a 20th-century sculptor, working in a variety of mediums including stone, bronze, plaster and wood. He also did occasional painting. Polasek's legacy is the sculpture he created, primarily figurative works with which he strove for sound construction and reflection of the true structure of nature such as the unity of head or figure and the beauty of "movement" - the flow of one mass into another - which made the difference between a "living" work and something inanimate.... Read full biography
Albin Polasek was a 20th-century sculptor, working in a variety of mediums including stone, bronze, plaster and wood. He also did occasional painting. Polasek's legacy is the sculpture he created, primarily figurative works with which he strove for sound construction and reflection of the true structure of nature such as the unity of head or figure and the beauty of "movement" - the flow of one mass into another - which made the difference between a "living" work and something inanimate. Polasek was born in 1879 in Frenstat, Moravia (now Czech Republic) and was apprenticed as a wood carver in Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1901. He continued to work as a wood carver in the American Midwest until 1906, when he began... Read full biography
Albin Polasek was a 20th-century sculptor, working in a variety of mediums including stone, bronze, plaster and wood. He also did occasional painting. Polasek's legacy is the sculpture he created, primarily figurative works with which he strove for sound construction and reflection of the true structure of nature such as the unity of head or figure and the beauty of "movement" - the flow of one mass into another - which made the difference between a "living" work and something inanimate. Polasek was born in 1879 in Frenstat, Moravia (now Czech Republic) and was apprenticed as a wood carver in Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1901. He continued to work as a wood carver in the American Midwest until 1906, when he began formal art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Under Charles Grafly, Polasek learned traditional classical sculpting techn... Read full biography
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Keywords (42)
Art Method
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Wood Carving and/or Engraving
Art Media
Art Style
- •Classical Realist
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Commemorative, Memorial, Monument
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Life-Size Portrait, Figure, Animal
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Italy Before World War I
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Sculpture Society
Art Teacher
- •Charles Grafly
Art School
- •American Academy, Rome, Student
- •Art Institute of Chicago (School Of), Teacher
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Frank Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
- •Prix de Rome Prize
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Chicago Union League Club
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Sculpture Specialty
- •Tree Studio Building Artist, Chicago
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts