Leonard Marconi

Leonard Marconi was a Polish architect and sculptor active in Warsaw and in Austrian Galicia, notably Lemberg.

Life

Leonard Marconi was born on 6 October 1835 in Warsaw to a well-known artistic family of Italian origin. He was the son of sculptor Ferrante Marconi, nephew of architect Henryk Marconi, and cousin of Leandro Marconi, a famed architect. He graduated from the Academy of [Fine Arts in Warsaw], then the Accademia [di San Luca] in Rome.
In 1861, he returned to Poland and opened an atelier in Warsaw. Fairly successful as a sculptor, in 1873 he was invited to Lwów to become a professor at the Technical Academy, predecessor of the Lviv Polytechnic.
He died in Lviv on 1 April 1899 and is interred at Lychakiv Cemetery.