Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

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]

Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
De Weryha-Wysoczański in 2014
Born(1950-10-01)1 October 1950
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Known forSculpture
AwardsPrix du Jury, Salon de Printemps, Luxembourg
Golden Owl
The Wukry coat of arms

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
    Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg, 1999
  • Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2012
    Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2012
  • Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers (detail) 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
    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
    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. 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 Personenenzyklopädien AG: Zug 2000, p. 3800, ISBN 3-7290-0030-6, OCLC 436805281.
  3. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 493, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
  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. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, ISBN 8389327376, OCLC 957590173.
  8. Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, ISBN 3-936848-05-X, OCLC 1049130586.
  9. Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, ISBN 3-598-24734-6.
  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. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, 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. 1, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  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, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
  19. 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.
  20. 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. "Kunst Schaffen". Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg. 2021.

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