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Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła (born 1 November 1931) is an artist, sculptor and academic. He is an author of numerous monuments, mostly located in Poland, and is one of the most recognisable sculptors of Poland.

Biography
Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła was born on 1 November 1931, in the village of Jasienica Rosielna, which is located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.

From 1952 to 1958 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.

Since 1958, he is the profesor there, teaching the sculpture. In 1964, he was the university director, and fron 1973 ro 1976 he was the prorector.

Since 2003, he is a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and since 2006, a member of the programme council of the National Creative Work Centre foundation.

Zamła is the author of numerous monuments, including the Monument of Silesian Insurgents (Katowice, 1967), Monument of the Fallen Undefeated (Warsaw, 1973), Monument to the Polish Endeavor (Szczecin, 1979), Monument of the Decalogue (Łódź, 1995), Henryk Sienkiewicz Monument (Warsaw, 1998), Ernest Malinowski Monument (Chicla District, 1999), and Monument to the Battle of Monte Cassino (Warsaw, 1999). He is also author of numerous sculptures.

Awards and orders

 * Golden Honorary Badge of Merid of Warsaw (Poland, 1970)
 * First Degree Award of the Minister of Culture and Art (Poland, 1973)
 * First Degree Badge of the National Award (Poland, 1980)
 * Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland, 1996)
 * Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland, 2011)
 * Medal of Merit of the City of Szczecin (Poland, 2012)
 * Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
 * Grand Officer's Order of Metit (Sovereign Military Order of Malta)
 * Honorary Badge of Pomeranian Griffin (Poland)
 * Order of Merit for Distinguished Services (Peru)