Anna Dębska

Anna Dębska (born August 4, 1929 in Warsaw, died May 16, 2014 in Łazy) – artist-sculptor, creating animal sculptures.

She studied in the years 1949-1954 at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studios of professors Tadeusz Breyer and Marian Wnuk. After graduating, she started sculpting animal figures, especially horses. From 1955 she participated in exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

In 1979, she went to the United States and stayed there until 1995. After returning, she settled permanently in Łazy, where she established a stud farm for racing horses. Her daughter is Joanna Waliszewska, also an excellent sculptor, art critic and writer. Her granddaughter is Aleksandra Waliszewska - a painter.

Anna Dębska's sculptures can be found, among others,

in the courtyard of the Presidium of the Capital National Council in Warsaw, 1962;
in the Culture and Recreation Park in Chorzów, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971;
in front of the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Słupsk, 1966;
in the Spa Park in Busko-Zdrój, 1967;
near the "Cracovia" hotel in Kraków, 1968;
at Dickens Square in Warsaw, 1971;
in a sanatorium center for children in Zbójna Góra near Warsaw, 1973;
in the sanatorium in Szczawnica, 1973;
in the Old Town in Warsaw, 1973;
in Sempione Park in Milan, 1973;
at ul. Grójecka in Warsaw's Ochota district;
among the sculptures in the Silesian Park, where the Wolves she made stand around the Totem by Józef Trenarowski;
as well as in museum collections in Warsaw, Kraków, Szczecin, Słupsk, Bydgoszcz, Zielona Góra, Opole and Częstochowa.