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Laszczka, Konstanty
(b Makowiec Duzy, nr Minsk Mazowiecki, 3 Sept 1865; d Kraków, 23 March 1956). Polish sculptor and ceramicist. He began studying sculpture in 1885, initially at private schools in Warsaw and then between 1891 and 1896 in Paris at the studios of Antonin Mercié, Alexandre Falguière and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Laszczka exhibited in Poland and abroad from 1889. From 1899 to 1935 he was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, where he created the ‘Kraków school’ of sculpture, as distinct from that in Warsaw.
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