Marian Konieczny was born in January 1930 in Jasionów in the Rzeszów Province. He started drawing very early. He was nine years old when the war broke out. He completed primary school in his home village. He began his education in 1943 as a student of clandestine classes, which was taken care of by his father - Stanisław, the mayor of Jasionów. Already at the end of 1945, he molded several human figures out of clay for a Christmas nativity scene, donated to the Ethnographic Museum of the Rzeszów Region. From the moment of liberation, Konieczny's life developed quickly. He passed his secondary school-leaving examination in 1946 at the State Gymnasium in Brzozów.

In the autumn of 1946, he became a student at the Krakow High School of Fine Arts, where young people from the partisans, from camps, from exile to Germany, and returning from long soldier wanderings came.
He recalls that the collision with Krakow was a big shock for him. In the summer of 1948, he passed the competitive exam for the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was accepted, as one of the four, to the workshop of Xawery Dunikowski. As a student of Dunikowski, he entered the studio, where the value of sculpture counted, not the value of its style. The open nature of X. Dunikowski's studio was a very fortunate coincidence.

In 1954, he received one of the two three-year aspirantures in art schools of the then Soviet Union. Taking advantage of the right to choose an art institute: Moscow or Leningrad, M. Konieczny chose the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin in Leningrad. The choice was then decided not so much by the qualities of the university itself as by the charm and legend of the city and the environment. The Krakow Academy of Fine Arts developed a very free idea of art, was open to artistic trends, while the Leningrad Academy respected, above all, classical traditions. The PHD was, above all, an important link in the process of M. Konieczny's artistic independence. He brought three sculptures with him to Poland: "The Old Athlete" - a sculpture resistant to repeated contact with it, very personal in terms of construction and mood. The second is: "Rebellious" - candidate, expressive work. The third sculpture is a bust of the artist's wife. In Leningrad, he met and married Zagremma Sakunawa, an architecture student with whom he came to Poland and had a son, Filip.

In February 1957, a competition for the monument to the Heroes of Warsaw was announced in Poland, which received 196 works from Poland and abroad - it was a record number - according to the jury, none of the projects was suitable for implementation. In 1959, a second competition was announced, the verdict of which made the young sculptor Marian Konieczny the winner - the winner of the first prize along with the realization. Since then, the Warsaw Nike, because this is the symbol that Konieczny attached to his work, has been a cult monument not only in our country. The fighting woman with a sword in her hand in a dramatic gesture moves to the depths. From the very first moment, Warsaw accepted Nike as something of its own and close.

Marian Konieczny was an extremely hard-working artist, he participated in many competitions, which he won many times. His artistic path is rich and thematically diverse. His works are distinguished by a characteristic expression, a very good example of which is the monument of "Bartosz Głowacki" near Racławice. It is also worth mentioning such monuments as: the monument of "Grzegorz z Sanok" or Maria Curie Skłodowska in Lublin. The statue of Lenin from Nowa Huta is undoubtedly one of the dynamic sculptures. The competition for it was announced in the 1970s and over 70 artists from Poland took part in it. The submitted projects were signed only with the symbol and the jury chose Marian Konieczny's proposal.

In addition to his work in Poland, Marian Konieczny has created monuments abroad, including: commemorating the liberation from French colonialism in Algiers - unveiled on the anniversary in 1982, the equestrian statue of Abdelkader, a fighter for the freedom of Algeria, and in the USA in Philadelphia, the statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko.
and a replica of the Chopin statue from the Royal Łazienki Park in Warsaw for Hamamatsu in Japan.

Equestrian monuments are a separate chapter in the artist's work, including the reconstruction of: the "Grunwald Monument" on Matejko Square in Krakow, demolished by the Germans during the occupation during World War II, the author of the original version was Antoni Wiwulski, and the monument was founded by the later Prime Minister and famous pianist Ignacy Paderewski in 1910,
the above-mentioned Abdelkader monument and the Jan Zamoyski monument in Zamość.
It is a pity that several approved projects were not implemented, such as Władysław Warneńczyk near Warna (model in the photo)