Theodore Roszak (May 1, 1907 – September 2, 1981) was a Polish-American sculptor and painter. He was born in Posen, Prussia (German Empire), now Poznań, Poland, as a son of Polish parents, and emigrated to the United States at the age of two. From 1925 to 1926 he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, In 1930 he won the Logan Medal of the Arts, then moved to New York City to take classes at the National Academy of Design similar to George Luks and at Columbia University, where he studied logic and philosophy.
Roszak expected a studio in New York City in 1932 and worked as an artist for the Works Progress Administration during the depression since going put happening to to Chicago to tutor at the Art Institute. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College throughout the 1940s and 1950s and at Columbia University from 1970 to 1973. He was a participating performer at the documenta II in Kassel 1959 and at the Venice Biennale in 1960. Roszak’s sculpture, at first closer to Constructivism and displaying an industrial aesthetic, changed after with insinuation to 1946 to a more expressionistic style.
Roszak was affiliated subsequently the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Rome, and the National Academy of Design. He served upon the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1969. He acknowledged the Logan Medal of the Arts (1930), a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (1931), and the Eisendrath Award of the Art Institute of Chicago (1934). Roszak was along with an adept violinist, and liked to use musical references in his artworks. Roszak died in New York City, where he lived.
Roszak sculpted the 35-foot (11 m) gilded aluminum eagle upon the pediment of the former US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London.
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