biography
| name: |
Ziolkowski, Korczak
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pronunciation:
[zyolkofskee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908–82)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was assistant to sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the creation of the National Monument at Mount Rushmore. In 1948 Ziolkowski began his own life-work, the carving out of a granite mountain (near Custer, SD), a 563 ft high statue of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, as a memorial to the American Indians. It was intended to surpass Mt Rushmore (22 mi away) in size and stand as the single largest work of sculpture in the world. He founded the non-profit Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Commission, and after his death, several of his 10 children worked to finish the gigantic project. |
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