Jozef Klukowski

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Józef Klukowski (born January 2, 1894 in Repelka , Grodno district , † 1945 in Ravensbrück ) was a Polish sculptor .

Life

Józef Klukowski attended the “Michajlow School of Artillery” as a cadet and became a professional officer in the Imperial Russian Army . After Polish independence in 1918, he was a soldier in the Polish Army and stationed in Toruń . From 1919 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and from 1922 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow . From 1928 to 1931 he stayed in Paris and then returned to Poland.

Klukowski mainly formed sculptures and reliefs, but also masks, medals, accessories and everyday objects.

Klukowski took part in 1932 with the sculpture Wieńczenie zawodnika ( Sport Sculpture II or The Coronation of the Winner ) in the art competitions of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the gold medal in the competition "Reliefs and medals". In 1936 he won the silver medal with Piłkarze ( soccer game ) in the “Reliefs” competition at the art competitions at the Summer Olympics in Berlin . For the 1939 World's Fair in New York, he made nine sculptures. Shortly before the German attack on Poland , he received an order for sculptures in the stations of the planned Warsaw subway .

Klukowski was arrested by the Germans during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . He was killed during the evacuation .

In 2000, the award-winning sculpture from 1932, believed to be missing, was discovered in the trophy collection of the Polish ski jumper Stanisław Marusarz , who died in 1993 , when an exhibition was organized in his honor at the Sports and Tourism Museum in Warsaw. Marusarz may have received the sculpture when he was voted the best Polish athlete of the previous year by readers of the Przegląd Sportowy newspaper in 1939 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wojciech Zablocki: Wartime adventures of Stanislaw Marusarz & his awards . In: Journal of Olympic History. 2003
  2. ↑ The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932. Official Report ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1933, p. 758, illustration on p. 763  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / olympic-museum.de
  3. ↑ In the case of Zablocki, the Oranienburg concentration camp is erroneously mentioned as the deportation site .
personal data
SURNAME Klukowski, Józef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Repelka , Grodno district
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Ravensbrück