Michael Powolny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian sculptor, ceramist, designer, and teacher
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Place of Birth: Judenburg, Styria, Austria
About Michael Powolny
- Michael Powolny (18 September 1871 – 4 January 1954) was an Austrian sculptor, ceramist, designer, and teacher. Powolny was born in Judenburg.
- He was trained at Tonindustrie in Znaim, and from 1894 to 1901 in the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule.
- In 1906 along with Bertold Löffler he founded the Wiener Keramik workshop, that became part of the Wiener Werkstätte a year later. Powolny died in Vienna.
- He is known for various individual sculptures and municipal monuments such as fountains and war memorials, but also for designs for household objects.
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