Gustaw Zemła


Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła is an artist, sculptor and academic. He is an author of numerous monuments, mostly located in Poland, and is one of the most recognisable sculptors of Poland.
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Biography

Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła was born on 1 November 1931, in the village of Jasienica Rosielna, now located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. From 1952 to 1958 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. In 1958 he was appointed as a professor there teaching sculpture. In 1964, he was appointed as the university director, and from 1973 to 1976 he was the prorector.
Since 2003, he has been a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and since 2006, a member of the programme council of the National Creative Work Centre foundation.
Zamła is the creator of many monuments, including the Monument of Silesian Insurgents, Monument of the Fallen Undefeated, Monument to the Polish Endeavour, Monument of the Decalogue, Henryk Sienkiewicz Monument, Ernest Malinowski Monument, and Monument to the Battle of Monte Cassino. He is also the author of numerous sculptures.

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