Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański[1] (born 1950) is a Polish sculptor[2][3] and Concrete artist.[4] He was born in Gdańsk.[2][3] From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.[2][3] Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg.[2] In 1998, he won 1st prize, Prix du Jury, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98', Luxembourg.[2][3] In 1999, he created a monument in memory of the deportees of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising for the memorial to the victims of the Neuengamme Nazi concentration camp at Hamburg.[2][3][5][6]
Works in collections
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1978 60th Anniversary of the Greater Poland Uprising in Art, City Gallery BWA Arsenał, Poznań
- 1989 Autumn Salon, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
- 1998 Spring Salon '98, Luxembourg Artist Center, Municipal Theater, Luxembourg
- 2004 Raw Wood. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven
- 2004 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Wooden Cube from the Wooden Cube Series, Chapel Gallery, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko
- 2005 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Epiphanies of Nature in the Late-Modern World, Szyb Wilson Gallery, Katowice
- 2005 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Wood - Archive, Patio Gallery, Łódź
- 2006 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood - Orońsko 2006, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
- 2006 XV International Sculpture Triennial - Sensitivity, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznań
- 2006 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood, City Gallery BWA, Jelenia Góra
- 2008 Alphabet of the Sculpture DEF..., Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
- 2009 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Tabularium, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk
- 2009 XVI International Sculpture Triennial - Crisis of the Genre, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznań
- 2010 Wood as Sculpture Material, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
Gallery
References
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412-420, ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8
- ^ a b c d e f Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii (Encyclopedia of the Polish Emigration and of the Poles Abroad), Toruń 2005, vol V, pp. 234-5, ISBN 83-89376-15-6
- ^ a b c d e Polak w świecie. Leksykon Polonii i Polaków za granicą (The Pole in the World, Encyclopedia of the Polish Living Abroad), Warsaw 2001, p. 336, ISBN 83-223-2693-9
- ^ Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, ISBN 3-936848-05-X
- ^ Taz Hamburg, April 27, 1999
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, April 27, 1999
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