Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Waszyngtonie

• Authors: Puget Wanda

Title variants

EN

The Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Washington D. C.

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

In the second half of the nineteenth century a large part of the Polish emigration made its way to North America. Several decades later, it comprised an almost four millionstrong community, organized in a thousand different associations which cultivated national traditions and, predominantly, patriotic feelings. When in 1903 the American Congress decided to build a statue of Kazimierz Pulaski, the Polish emigres embarked upon a collection of funds for a monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a general in the American War of Independence and a hero of the struggle waged for a free Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. The execution of the monument was entrusted to Antoni Popiel, a well-known Polish sculptor. The monument was located in Lafayette park opposite the White House. The unveiling which took place in 1910 was a great state ceremony attended by the President of the United States and delegations from partitioned Poland. A threemeter high bronze figure of General Tadeusz Kościuszko, standing on a granite pedestal, is dressed in an Amercian uniform. Figures of soldiers including that of a Polish peasant who brandishes a scythe against tsarist troops, surround the monument’s base; an eagle symbolizes the Polish national emblem. Almost eighty years later, the metal surface of the monument became corroded and required conservation which was inaugurated in 1987.

Keywords

PL

Tadeusz Kościuszko; pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki; Waszyngton; park Lafayette

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1994
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 202-203

Dates

published

1994

Contributors

author

Puget Wanda

References

• P. Błoński, Antoni Popieli (w:) Polski Słownik Biograficzny, T. XXVII/3, z. 114, Wrocław-Warszawa-Krakow 1983, s. 553.
• Joachim Busse, Internationales Handbuch aller Maler und Bildhauer des 19- Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden 1977. 4. „Biesiada Literacka” 1910, nr 1,

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247