Edward Nicz, portrait of Oskar Sosnowski, 1886, woodcut, Mazovian Digital Library, Public domain
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Edward Nicz, portrait of Oskar Sosnowski, 1886, woodcut, Mazovian Digital Library, Public domain
License: public domain, Source: Wikimedia Commons, License terms and conditions

Tomasz Sosnowski

Insurgent:

participant in the November Uprising

First name:

Tomasz

Last Name:

Sosnowski

Middle name:

Oskar

Parents:

Stanisław i Kastylda

Date of birth:

12-10-1810

Place of birth:

Nowomalin

Date of death:

27-01-1886

Place od death:

Rzym

Age:

Profession:

sculptor

Honours and awards:

Order Świętego Grzegorza Wielkiego (1859)

Biography:

Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski (1810-1886), born in Nowomalin, son of Stanislaus and Kastylda, sculptor. He studied drawing with Antoni Blank, and sculpture with Paweł Maliński. He then studied in Berlin under Christian Rauch and in Rome in the studio of Pietro Tenerani. In 1843, he settled in Warsaw, but after three years returned to Rome, where he took up the position of professor of sculpture at the Academy of St Luke. He remained outside Poland until the end of his life.