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Kazimierz Jelski

1782 – 1886

Artist, sculptor, architect, restorer, teacher, representative of classicism.

He created busts of professors for the new hall of the university library in St. Petersburg, worked on various decorative elements for university buildings. Author of relief compositions, moldings, park sculptures, tombstones.

Lived and worked in Vilna.

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1782

Born in the place of Eismanty near Grodno (Russian Empire, now the Republic of Belarus).

1801-1808

He studied at the Main Vilna School (now Vilna University) with Francis Smuglevich and Jan Rustem.

1809

Received a PhD in Art.

1809/1810

He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

1810

Received a master's degree in art.

From 1811

He taught sculpture at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

1822

Wrote a work on the connection between architecture, sculpture and painting - the first work of its kind in Polish.

1826-1832

With the abolition of the sculpture department, he was the curator of the sculpture cabinet, worked on the decor of university buildings.

1829

Received a professorship.

1837

Restored the Kaunas City Hall (Lithuania).

1839

He restored stucco decorations of the Pažaisliai Monastery (Lithuania).

1867

Died in Vilna.