Jozef Ciechan

Józef Ciechan (born March 17, 1908 in Siennica Różana , † April 25, 1989 ) was a Polish sculptor.

The son of a carpenter and a seamstress attended the art school ( Państwowa Szkoła Przemysłu Drzewnego ) in Zakopane when he was eighteen and founded a sculpture workshop in his hometown on his return. During the time of the German occupation he worked on the underground magazines Ziarno and Zew . After the war he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with Xawery Dunikowski and Stanisław Horno-Popławski .

In Dunikowski's team he worked on the memorial for the uprisings in Upper Silesia on St. Annaberg (1946–1955). His most important works were the granite monument unveiled in 1968 for the soldiers, partisans and prisoners who died in Krasnystaw from 1939 to 1945, a monument to Marshal Józef Piłsudski and a ceramic bust of Nicolaus Copernicus (1974) in Krasnystaw. He also created a number of monumental sculptures, gravestones (including for the writer Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina ), altars and restoration work in the Lublin region.

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SURNAME	Ciechan, Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Siennica Różana
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1989