Helen Zelezny-Scholz
Czech sculptor
Died when: 91 years 186 days (1098 months)Star Sign: Leo
Helen Zelezny, also known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz, Helen Scholz, Helene Scholz-Zelezny or Helene Scholzová-Železná (16 August 1882 – 18 February 1974), was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor.
She was an influential figure in the sculpture of north Moravia and Silesia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Zelezny created sculpted portraits, including portraits of members of the Habsburg family, Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Lady Sybil Grahamová, Benito Mussolini, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk with whom she had a close relationship from 1932 to 1934.
Zelezny is also known as an Italian sculptor as she lived and worked for many years in Rome.
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