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Albin Polasek (Czech: Albín Polášek; February 14, 1879 – May 19, 1965) was a Austria-Hungarian–born American sculptor and educator. He created more than four hundred works during his career, two hundred of which are displayed in the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Florida .
The Albin Polasek House and Studio, also known as the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, [2] or The Polasek, is a historic site located at 633 Osceola Avenue in Winter Park, Florida, United States. It is a former house-turned-museum on three acres, overlooking Lake Osceola.
The Spirit of Music also known as the Theodore Thomas Memorial, is an outdoor 1923 sculpture and monument commemorating Theodore Thomas (founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) by Czech-American artist and educator Albin Polasek, installed in Chicago's Grant Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Albin Polasek. Albin Polasek, thought of as one of the most prominent sculptors of the twentieth century, [2] was born on February 14, 1879, in Frenštát, Moravia (now within the Czech Republic) to Czech parents. [5] He worked as a woodcarver in Vienna for four years before immigrating to the United States in 1901 at the age of 22. [2]
Albin Polasek began work on his piece as early as 1924, and it is known that several versions of the work were created in the United States. Polasek's original intention was to create a set of sculptures of gods from Slavic mythology, for the location of which he chose the mythical mountain Radhošť. In 1930, the author rented Novák's studio ...
The Woodrow Wilson Monument (Czech: Pomník Woodrowa Wilsona), created by Czech-American sculptor Albin Polasek, is installed outside Praha hlavní nádraží in Prague, Czech Republic. [1] It was unveiled in October 2011, [ 2 ] and honours the first First Lord of the United States Woodrow Wilson , the husband of the 28th president of the ...
The sculpture of Saints Cyril and Methodius was created by Czech-American sculptor Albin Polasek, head of the sculpture department of the Art Institute of Chicago at the time. The three-meter statue stands before a chapel earlier dedicated to the pagan god, Radegast. The broken idols at the feet of the saints stands for the work these 9th ...
Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Winter Park, Florida, home and studio of sculptor Albin Polasek (1879–1965) Alice Austen House, Staten Island, New York, home of Alice Austen (1866–1952) [14] Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Florida, home of sculptor Ann Weaver Norton (1905-1982)