Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

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The Wukry coat of arms

Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1][2][3][4] (born 1 October 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor,[5][6] process artist[7] and concrete artist.[8] He was born in Gdańsk.[5][6] From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.[5][6] Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg.[5] 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.[5][6][9] 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,[5][6][10][11] in 2012 a memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf.[12][13] He was represented by Galerie Kellermann in Düsseldorf. In 2022 de Weryha-Wysoczański was awarded in Vienna the Golden Owl culture award in the category Visual Arts.[14]

He comes from an old noble family of Walachian[15] boyar[16] stock and legend has it that his coat of arms is borne by the descendants of Attila the Hun.[17] His only son Rafael is a writer, his uncle Basil was a rich 19th century philanthropist.[1][15] A son of his aunt Anna[18] was composer Yaroslav Yaroslavenko. Another cousin was industrialist, novelist and playwright Bronislas, 3rd Chevalier de Minkowicz-Wysoczański.[19]

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.[20]

Exhibitions (selection)

Gallery

References

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  1. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412–420, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  2. ↑ Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 7th edition, Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG: Zug 2000, Template:P., Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 493, Template:ISBN,Template:Catalog lookup link.
  4. ↑ First and middle names plus triple barrelled surname with title of nobility cited in Feuß, Axel, "Weryha-Wysoczański, Jan de", Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online, edited by Andreas Beyer, Bénédicte Savoy and Wolf Tegethoff, Berlin, Boston: K. G. Saur, 2009.
  5. ↑ 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, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  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, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  7. ↑ Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  8. ↑ Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  9. ↑ Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, Template:ISBN.
  10. ↑ Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999.
  11. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999.
  12. ↑ Bild, 22 September 2012.
  13. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012.
  14. ↑ Beata Dżon-Ozimek, Każda nagroda dowodzi, że spośród bardzo wielu zauważamy jedynie tak niewielu. Zamiast Gali Złotych Sów, Angora-Peryskop, no 16 (17 IV 2022), p. 76.
  15. ↑ a b Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  16. ↑ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 1, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  17. ↑ Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol IX, Leipzig 1841, pp. 447-9.
  18. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 498, Template:ISBN,Template:Catalog lookup link.
  19. ↑ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
  20. ↑ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link.
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Bibliography

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