Background
Kazimierz Chodziński was born in 1861 in Łańcut, partitioned Poland.
Kazimierz Chodziński was born in 1861 in Łańcut, partitioned Poland.
He sculpted over a hundred different statues in partitioned Poland, as well as some other European cities, such as Vienna. Around 1903-1910 he worked in the United States, where he designed, among others, the Tadeusz Kościuszko statue in Chicago in the Humboldt Park neighborhood and the General Casimir Pulaski statue in Washington, District of Columbia. His father was a painter. Chodziński worked as an artist, painting and sculpting, gathering resources that allowed him to enroll in Krakow School of Fine Arts in Austrian partition of Poland and study under the sculptor Walery Gadomski and the famous painter January Matejko.
Afterward he returned to Krakow, where he opened a studio specializing in sculptures for religious and monumental buildings.
Later, he moved his studio to Warsaw (capital of the Congress Poland), due to better conditions for exporting his work. Around 1903-1910 he worked in the United States, where he designed, among others, the Tadeusz Kościuszko statue in Chicago in the Humboldt Park there and the General Casimir Pulaski statue in Washington, District of Columbia. Chodziński died in 1919 in Lviv (Lwów), then in the newly independent Second Polish Republic.