Władysław Jania (1913, Mszana Dolna – 2008, Warsaw), Bust of a Man

Origin
private collection, Poland

Biography
Sculptor, student of Xawery Dunikowski, assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, creator of, among others, the monuments to Jan Kochanowski in Zwoleń and Sycyna, and to Janusz Korczak in Warsaw. From 1930 to 1934, he studied at the State School of Woodworking in Zakopane.
He created religious sculptures and busts of private individuals and was part of the team responsible for the interior design of the dissection hall at the Medical Academy in Warsaw. He oversaw the construction or reconstruction of monuments such as the Warsaw Nike, the Fryderyk Chopin monument in Łazienki Park, the Silesian Insurgents monument in Katowice, and the Mausoleum of Soviet Soldiers in Warsaw; he also collaborated on the creation or reconstruction of, among others, the monuments to the Polish Cavalry, Nicolaus Copernicus, and the Brotherhood in Arms in Warsaw.