Henryk Kuna

His long career produced many famous works of arts including several renowned public monuments in his native country of Poland.

Henryk Kuna was born to a Jewish family[1] in Warsaw in 1885[2] or possibly earlier (various sources give his year of birth as far back as 1879).

[2] Kuna was chosen for a project to sculpt a statue of Polish national hero Adam Mickiewicz for the city of Vilnius in the early 1930s.

When the Nazis invaded in 1939, the monument site was largely destroyed by a bomb, and under their occupation many of the bas reliefs were hauled off to a cemetery as paving stones.

[9] Kuna's most iconic work, the lifesize female nude Rytm (Rhythm, 1925),[10] seemingly sways waterside in the Praga Południe district of Warsaw.