Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

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Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, Sammlung de Weryha, Hamburg, 2014.jpg
De Weryha-Wysoczański in 2014
Born(1950-10-01)1 October 1950
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Known forSculpture

Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1][2] (born 1 October 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor,[3][4] process artist[5] and concrete artist.[6] He was born in Gdańsk.[3][4] From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.[3][4] Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg.[3] 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.[3][4][7] 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,[3][4][8][9] in 2012 a memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf.[10][11] He was represented by Galerie Kellermann in Düsseldorf.

He comes from an old noble family of Walachian[12] boyar[13] stock and legend has it that his coat of arms is borne by the descendants of Attila the Hun.[14] His only son Rafael is a writer, his uncle Basil was a rich 19th century philanthropist.[1][12] A son of his aunt Anna[15] was composer Yaroslav Yaroslavenko. Another cousin was industrialist, novelist and playwright Bronislas, 3rd Chevalier de Minkowicz-Wysoczański.[16]

Works in museum collections[]

Sammlung de Weryha[]

Hamburg is the location of the "Sammlung de Weryha", which is based in the former depository of the palace museum Hamburg-Bergedorf. Most of the collection, composed of works by the artist and supported by a Friends organisation, is permanently being on display in the exhibition rooms.[17]

Exhibitions (selection)[]

  • 1978 60th Anniversary of the Greater Poland Uprising in Art, City Gallery BWA Arsenał, Poznań
  • 1989 Autumn Salon, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
  • 1990 Germany in Montana, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, Montana
  • 1993 Selected Art Work from the Federal Republic of Germany and The United States: A Traveling Exhibition, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
  • 1998 Spring Salon '98, Luxembourg Artist Center, Municipal Theater, Luxembourg
  • 2004 Strictly 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
  • 2011 Hamburg Art Week 2011, Chilehaus, Hamburg
  • 2013 NordArt 2013, Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
  • 2013 PROJECT BERLIN RELOAD, FACTORY-ART GALLERY, Berlin
  • 2015 Alphabet of the Sculpture VWZŹ..., Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
  • 2015 Mailights 2015: Günther Uecker, Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Jan de Weryha, Manfred Binzer, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf
  • 2018 Wood Sculpture in the Work of Polish Artists 1918-2018, Władysław Count Zamoyski City Gallery in Zakopane, among others from the collections of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, and the State Art Gallery, Sopot
  • 2021 Kunst Schaffen, Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg, with Klaus Fußmann, Ingo Kühl among others.[18]

Gallery[]

  • Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2012

  • Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers (detail) in Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2012

  • Sammlung de Weryha in Hamburg housing a permanent exhibition of the works of the artist

  • A sculpture on the façade of the English House (left) in Gdańsk was reconstructed by the artist at the beginning of the 1980s

References[]

  1. ^ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412–420, ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8, OCLC 1570546.
  2. ^ Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 7th edition, Verlag für Personalenzyklopädien AG: Zug 2000, p. 3800, ISBN 3-7290-0030-6, OCLC 436805281.
  3. ^ 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, OCLC 315323037.
  4. ^ 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, OCLC 47863843.
  5. ^ Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, ISBN 8389327376, OCLC 957590173.
  6. ^ Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, ISBN 3-936848-05-X, OCLC 1049130586.
  7. ^ Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, ISBN 3-598-24734-6.
  8. ^ Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999.
  9. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999.
  10. ^ Bild, 22 September 2012.
  11. ^ Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012.
  12. ^ a b Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.
  13. ^ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 1, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  14. ^ Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol IX, Leipzig 1841, pp. 447-9.
  15. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 498, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
  16. ^ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  17. ^ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  18. ^ "Kunst Schaffen". Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg. 2021.

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