Edward Wittig Biography
(b Warsaw, 21 Sept 1879; d Warsaw, 3 March 1941). Polish sculptor. He studied at the medal workshop of Josef Tautenhayn (b 1868) at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (1897–1900), in the workshop of the medallist Hubert Ponscarme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1900–02), and also with Alexandre Charpentier. From 1903 onwards he exhibited at the Salon and at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1914 he returned to Poland, where he was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts, Warsaw (1915–20), and spent the next two years at the Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw Polytechnic. He was a member of the RHYTHM GROUP.
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