He studied at the
School of Fine Arts, Kraków from 1882 to 1884, with
Izydor Jabłoński,
Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and . He studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from 1885 to 1888. In 1888, he studied in
Berlin and
Florence, and returned to Poland. He lived first in
Kraków, then in
Lviv, including a job as assistant to
Leonard Marconi, at the Faculty of Drawing and modeling of the
Lviv Polytechnic. He remained connected with it for life. In 1894, he created sculptures decorating the entrance to the Palace of the Arts (Polish:
Pałac sztuki) constructed for the
General National Exhibition in Lviv. He stayed in Florence, from 1895 to 1897, where he made a statue of
Justitia for the lobby of the Palace of Justice in Lviv (1896), and the design of the monument of
Józef Korzeniowski, which was then erected in
Brody. In 1898, he won a competition for a monument to
Adam Mickiewicz University in Lviv. The monument, in the form of a tall column topped with a Torch of Poetry, was unveiled on 30 October 1904. After the death of
Leonardo Marconi, Antoni Popiel continued work on the statue of
Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Kraków. The monument stood on the Wawel hill. During
World War II, in 1940, it was destroyed by the Germans, and reconstructed in 1960. In 1900, he designed sculptures for the
Grand Theatre in Lviv - tympanum, stone caryatids; and statues of the Muses. In 1907, he participated in the competition for a monument to
Tadeusz Kosciuszko in
Washington, D.C. Although he won second prize, President
Theodore Roosevelt selected his design for implementation. Between 1902 and 1904, he designed the allegorical figures which were placed at the main entrance to the
Lviv Railway Station. His brother was the panorama painter,
Tadeusz Popiel. ==Death==