Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1] (born 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, 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 the 1st prize, the Prix du Jury, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg at the 'Salon de Printemps 98', Luxembourg.[2][3][5] 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][6][7] in 2012 a memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf.[8][9] He is represented by Galerie Kellermann in Düsseldorf.[10]

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References

  1. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412–420, ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 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
  4. Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, ISBN 3-936848-05-X
  5. Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, ISBN 3-598-24734-6
  6. Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999
  7. Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999
  8. Bild, 22 September 2012
  9. Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012
  10. Jan de Weryha Galerie Kellermann

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