Helen Zelezny Scholz

Helen Zelezny, also known in Europe as Helene ZeleznyScholz, Helen Scholz or Helene Scholzovelezn , 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 Htzendorf, Lady Sybil Grahamov, Benito Mussolini, and Tom Garrigue Masaryk with whom she had a close relationship. Zelezny is also known as an Italian sculptor as she lived and worked for many years in Rome.

Zelezny was born in Chropyn, in the Czech Republic, and raised in the village of Tebovice, which is now part of the city of Ostrava in Austrian Silesia. Her mother was the German writer and poet the countess, Maria Stona and her grand father was the industrial manager and entrepreneur deAlois Scholz. Zelezny spent her childhood at the family chteau owned by her mother. Stona frequently received intellectual and creative personalities from all over Europe. Zelezny became multilingual, speaking English, Italian, French, and German.

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