Helen Zelezny

Helen Zelezny, also known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz or Helene Scholzová-Železná (August 16, 1882 – February 18, 1974), was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor. She was a very significant representative of the art of sculpture in Europe at the end of the nineteenth and the first half the twentieth centuries. She is also known as an Italian sculptor as she lived and created in Rome, where she was critically acclaimed, for a number of years. She is also known variously as Helena Zelezny-Scholz, or Helen Scholz. Her mother was the well-known writer and poetess Maria Stona At the outbreak of the war in 1914 she went to Vienna, where she assumed a position which might be designated as that of Court Sculptor, many...