Seasons, and four depicting, Art, Science, Agriculture, and Industry. In contest of 1879, he designed three sculptural groups for the Palace of the Diet of Galizia: the Genius of Galizia, Civility, and Labor. At the International competition of Moscow for the Monument to Alexander II, in October 1882, Rygier won 3rd prize for 3000 rubles. But the work was never completed. The competition for Adam Mickiewicz Monument The idea for a monument to a Polish national bard Adam Mickiewicz was put forward by university youth on the account of the return of his remains from Paris. In the years 1882-1888, a committee was set up to conduct a public competition for its design. Teodor Rygier, who took part in all three stages of the contest, was awarded the rights for its production by popular demand, ahead of over 60 artists including the renowned Cyprian Godebski, professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from Paris, who won the first prize. The unveiling of the statue took exceptionally long time due to endless requests for revisions coming from the artistic committee. The monument was finally unveiled on 16 June 1898 for the 100th anniversary of Mickiewicz's birth. The monument design is conventional for its time. The poet, raised on the pedestal, four symbolic groups are on the base: Motherland i.e. Poland (front), Science and learning – an old man with a boy (side on Florianska Street), Poetry (side facing Church of St. Wojciech), and Patriotic love or Valour (facing Sukiennice Hall). All bronze figures were cast in the Nellich foundry in Rome. Aside from his statue of Adam Mickiewicz at the Main Market Square in Kraków, there is also one in the Old Town district, namely the bust of painter Juliusz Kossak featured in front of the Palace of Art at Planty Park. See also Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Lviv Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw References Piotr Szubert, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Sylwetki (sztuki wizualne): Teodor Rygier February 2002 Adam Mickiewicz Monument at the City's official website. This article incorporates information from Polish Wikipedia at In Your Pocket Ltd The monument of Adam Mickiewicz at come2europe.eu 2006-2008 The Warsaw Voice, All About Poland, Charm of Cracow 18 August 2005 Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors 1841 births 1913 deaths 20th-century sculptors 19th-century sculptors Burials at Campo Verano Artists from Warsaw