Artwork Details
- Title
- General Tadeusz Kosciuszko
- Artist
- Marian Konieczny (1930 – 2017)
- Year
- 1977; installed 1978
- Medium
- Bronze, on white stone base
- Dimensions
- Height 12', width 3'5" (base height 8', width 7'3")
Artwork Description
Tadeusz (Thaddeus) Kosciuszko came from Poland to fight in America’s Revolutionary War. His brilliant work as a military engineer proved crucial to American victory. Later he served heroically in his own country’s struggle for independence. When he returned briefly to Philadelphia, he lived at Third and Pine Streets in a house that is now the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial.
In honor of the U.S. Bicentennial, the people of Poland donated this bronze sculpture to the City of Philadelphia. The base, provided by the Polish Heritage Society of Philadelphia, suggests the red and white of the Polish flag.
Artwork Credits
Gift of the Polish Heritage Society of Philadelphia to City of Philadelphia
Owned by the City of Philadelphia
Artwork Media
Museum Without Walls
Voices:
MARIAN KONIECZNY (1930-2017) is the Polish sculptor who created General Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
PATRICIA STEWART is an art historian who taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
ALEX STOROZYNSKI is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Peasant Prince.
Producer: Lu Olkowski