Biography

Cyprien Godebski, France-Polland (1835-1909)

Cyprien Godebski born October 30, 1835 in Méry-sur-Cher and died November 25, 1909 in Paris is a Franco-Polish sculptor.

He created the Monument to Adrien-François Servais in Halle, decorated his house and the town hall with the figures of La Justice and La Vérité.

He produced several busts of famous Belgian composers for the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Adrien-François Servais, Henri Vieuxtemps, François-Auguste Gevaert) and that of Dr Burggraeve, kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. In Belgium, he exhibited his works in Antwerp in 1867, and in Brussels in 1875 and 1884.

In Paris at the Montmartre cemetery, we owe him a bronze medallion on the tomb of Hector Berlioz, as well as a marble statue of Calliope, muse of poetry, at the tomb of Théophile Gautier. In the Père-Lachaise cemetery, an Angel adorns the tomb of the Galezowski and Tamberlick families.

The Louvre Museum retains its bust of archaeologist Henry Barbet de Jouy. In Finistère, his Monument to General Le Flô is erected in Lesneven. His Carrara marble statue of Notre-Dame-des-Naufragés at Pointe du Raz, in the town of Plogoff, was made in 1904, following the death of his son Ernest in Tonkin.

He made busts of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven for the Roumiantzeffs in Moscow, and many busts of Polish personalities including, in Warsaw, the Monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1898), the famous Polish romantic poet.

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