{"id":36491,"date":"2026-01-21T16:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/artysci\/rafal-nowak\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:19:29","slug":"rafal-nowak","status":"publish","type":"artysci","link":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/en\/artists\/rafal-nowak\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafa\u0142 Nowak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sculptor and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Pozna\u0144. He received his diploma with distinction in 2000 from the Sculpture Studio of Professor J\u00f3zef Kopczy\u0144ski.<\/p>\n<p>His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland, including in Pozna\u0144, Wroc\u0142aw, Bydgoszcz, Gdynia, and Oro\u0144sko, as well as internationally in Austria, Germany, France, and Canada. He is the recipient of multiple artistic awards, including the Artistic Award of the City of Pozna\u0144.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of significant public space projects, particularly sculptures and monuments of a historical and symbolic character. His most important works include the Mars Fountain in the Old Market Square in Pozna\u0144, the Freedom Fountain in Liberty Square in Pozna\u0144, and the sculpture of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in front of the Aula of the Academy of Music in Pozna\u0144. He is also the creator of a group of historical sculptures in Gniezno depicting, among others, Boles\u0142aw the Brave, Mieszko II, Boles\u0142aw the Bold, Przemys\u0142, and Wenceslaus.<\/p>\n<p>His oeuvre also includes commemorative plaques in Pozna\u0144 Cathedral (Mieszko II and Casimir the Restorer), monuments to General Taczak in Mieszkowo and the Ko\u017alarz in Zb\u0105szy\u0144, a monument to Irena Kwiatkowska, as well as numerous commemorative, portrait, and sepulchral sculptural works, including a bust of Witold Pilecki, The Little Prince sculpture, and various tomb and funerary monuments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"technika":[35],"class_list":["post-36491","artysci","type-artysci","status-publish","hentry","technika-rzezba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artysci\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artysci"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artysci"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"technika","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technika?post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}