Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski
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Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański (born 1950) is a Polish
sculptor and Concrete art
ist.
He was born in Gdańsk
. From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg
. In 1998, he won 1st prize, Prix du Jury, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98', Luxembourg. 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.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
sculptor and Concrete art
Concrete art
Concrete art and design or concretism is an abstractionist movement that evolved in the 1930s out of the work of De Stijl, the futurists and Kandinsky around the Swiss painter Max Bill. The term "concrete art" was first introduced by Theo van Doesburg in his "Manifesto of Concrete Art"...
ist.
He was born in Gdańsk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
. From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. In 1998, he won 1st prize, Prix du Jury, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98', Luxembourg. In 1999, he created a monument in memory of the deportees of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...
for the memorial to the victims of the Neuengamme Nazi concentration camp at Hamburg.
Works in collections
- Centre of Polish Sculpture, OrońskoOronskoOrońsko is a village in Szydłowiec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Orońsko. It lies approximately north-east of Szydłowiec and south of Warsaw....
, Poland - National Museum, SzczecinNational Museum, SzczecinNational Museum, Szczecin – a museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The main part of an exhibition is placed in Landed Gentry House , Staromłyńska 27 Street...
, Poland - Museum of Modern Art, Radom, Poland
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1978 60th Anniversary of the Greater Poland Uprising in Art, City Gallery BWA Arsenał, PoznańPoznanPoznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
- 1989 Autumn Salon, KunsthausKunsthausKunsthaus may refer to:*Kunsthaus Graz*Kunsthaus Tacheles*KunstHausWien*Kunsthaus Zürich...
Hamburg, Hamburg - 1998 Spring Salon '98, Luxembourg Artist Center, Municipal Theater, LuxembourgLuxembourgLuxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
- 2004 Raw Wood. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, WilhelmshavenWilhelmshavenWilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.-History:...
- 2004 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Wooden Cube from the Wooden Cube Series, Chapel Gallery, Polish Sculpture CenterPolish Sculpture CenterThe Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, near Radom, Poland, is a museum housed at Józef Brandt’s 19th-century manor house. The Center’s collections comprise 621 sculptures, installations and other art forms owned by the Center, as well as 173 deposit items. The collections additionally include 70...
, Orońsko - 2005 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Epiphanies of Nature in the Late-Modern World, Szyb Wilson Gallery, KatowiceKatowiceKatowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...
- 2005 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Wood - Archive, Patio Gallery, Łódź
- 2006 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood - Orońsko 2006, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, OrońskoPolish Sculpture CenterThe Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, near Radom, Poland, is a museum housed at Józef Brandt’s 19th-century manor house. The Center’s collections comprise 621 sculptures, installations and other art forms owned by the Center, as well as 173 deposit items. The collections additionally include 70...
- 2006 XV International Sculpture Triennial - Sensitivity, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznań
- 2006 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood, City Gallery BWA, Jelenia GóraJelenia Góra----Jelenia Góra is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The name of the city means "deer mountain" in Polish, Czech and German. It is close to the Krkonoše mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba can be found...
- 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, PoznańPoznanPoznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
- 2010 Wood as Sculpture Material, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
External links
- http://www.de-weryha-art.de
- http://www.rzezba-oronsko.pl/index.php?m=13&p=51&lang=en
- http://www.kultura-extra.de/kunst/feull/jan_de_weryha_wysoczanski_offenbarungen_in_holz_oronsko2006.php
- http://www.kultura-extra.de/kunst/veranstaltung/jan_de_weryha_wysoczanski_oronsko_2006.php
- http://www.kultura-extra.de/kunst/portrait/jan_de_weryha.html
- http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/RESOURCE/GALLERY/NEUA.htm