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Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

German sculptor

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]

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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)

  • Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg, 1999
  • 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

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    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.
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    Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 7th edition, Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG: Zug 2000, p. 3800, ISBN 3-7290-0030-6, OCLC 436805281.
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    Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 493, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, ISBN 8389327376, OCLC 957590173.
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    Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, ISBN 3-936848-05-X, OCLC 1049130586.
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    Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, ISBN 3-598-24734-6.
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    Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999.
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    Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999.
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    Bild, 22 September 2012.
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    Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012.
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    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.
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    Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.
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    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.
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    Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol IX, Leipzig 1841, pp. 447-9.
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    Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 498, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
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    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.
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    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.
  21. [21]
    "Kunst Schaffen". Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg. 2021.

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