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Cyprien Godebski en Raymond de Coster
°Méry-sur-Cher, October 30, 1835 – †Paris, November 25, 1909
Servais’ son-in law
The Polish sculptor Cyprien Godebski married Sophie Servais, who was Servais’ oldest daughter, in Halle. Cyprien Godebski was a teacher at the Art Academy of Saint-Petersburg and sculpted amongst other things, well-known figures in France, Great-Britain, Russia, Belgium, Hungary, the Ukraine, Monaco and Peru. Godebski was a friend of Franz Liszt, Gioacchino Rossini and Gabriël Fauré.
Selective list of works:
- Bas-reliefs Villa Servais, Halle (1864)
- bust of Gioaccino Rossini, Halle (1865)
- statue François Servais, cellist and composer, Grand’Place Halle (1869)
- statues ‘de Waarheid’ and ‘de Gerechtigheid’, Old town hal in Halle (ca. 1870)
- medallion Hector Berlioz, cimetary Montmartre, Paris (1884)
- bust François Servais, Henry Vieuxtemps and François-Auguste Gevaert, Royal Conservatory of Brussels
- statue Alexander Fredros, Polish writer, Cracow
- statue ‘La Muse Calliope’, tomb of Théophile Gauthier, cimetary Montmartre in Paris
- statue ‘La Force brutale étouffant le génie’, Toulon (ca. 1888)
- statue Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet, Warsaw (1898)
- statue Copernicus, Cracow (1900)
- statue ‘Notre-dame-des-Naufragés’, Point-du-Raz (1904)
Brochure ‘Cyprien Godebski (1835-1909) in Halle
Bibliography: see page ‘Research’ – publications