Boleslas Biegas

Boleslas Biegas was born in 1877, the son of an orchestra leader.  After the death of his parents in 1890, he worked as a carpenter's assistant, a messenger, and then became an apprentice at the studio of Panusiak, a sculptor.

Biegas studied and worked with Panusiak for eighteen months.  The experience gave birth to the artistic consciousness in Biegas, and in 1896 he exhibited a group of sculptures in a bookstore in Warsaw.  His talent was evident and in the same year he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Cracow.  In the following years, and for twenty years afterwards, he exhibited his works at the Society for the Advancement of Fine Arts of Cracow.  In 1901 he obtained a scholarship to continue his s   ...  Displaying 750 of 4792 characters.