famous series of sculptures by Dunikowski titled Kobiety brzemienne (Pregnant Women). In the same year Dunikowski became the professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, thus leaving Kraków for good. He also held professorship at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wrocław. In 1964, at the age of eighty-eight, Xawery Dunikowski died, leaving behind a legacy of art including some of his more famous sculptures, Macierzyństwo (Motherhood, 1900), Skupienie (Concentration), Fatum (Fate, 1904), Dante, sculpture series including the Women of Nieborów and the Jesuits' Circle, along with many illustrations, portraits, and other works. Considered to be the best 20th century Polish sculptor, Dunikowski is buried in the Alley of the Meritorious in Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw; his tomb sculpture was created by a former pupil, Barbara Zbrożyna. Museum The former Warsaw palace of Królikarnia houses a museum dedicated to Dunikowski. Many of his famous works are on display in the park that surrounds it, among which is the sculpture in sandstone known as The Soul Escaping the Body (1918). References External links Xawery Dunikowski at Culture.pl 1875 births 1964 deaths Modern sculptors Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery Recipients of the Order of the Builders of People's Poland Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion 20th-century Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors 20th-century male artists Artists from Kraków