Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

Jan de Weryha (2014)

Coat of arms of the coat of arms community "Wukry"

Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański (* 1950 in Gdańsk ) is a Polish-German sculptor and representative of process art and concrete art . He comes from the Polish noble family Wysoczański , is the son of a Pole and a German. His paternal grandmother was Austrian.

In 1976 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk with a degree in sculpture . He has lived in Hamburg since 1981 . In 1998 he won the Prix du Jury at the Salon de Printemps '98 Luxembourg. The commission for the memorial In memory of the deportees of the Warsaw uprising in 1944 in the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial , he received the commission for the memorial in memory of the Nazi slave laborers in Hamburg-Bergedorf in 1999 and 2012 . During the inauguration there was a gas attack by a German on Polish guests of honor.

Works

Works by Weryha-Wysoczański can be found in the Sculpture Center in Poland , Orońsko , in the National Museum in Szczecin and in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom . Numerous works by the artist are presented in a permanent exhibition in the de Weryha Collection, Hamburg, which is supported by a group of friends.

Exhibitions (selection)

1989: Autumn Salon , Kunsthaus Hamburg
1990: Germany in Montana , Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula , Montana
1993: Selected Art Work from the Federal Republic of Germany and The United States: A Traveling Exhibition , Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art , Great Falls, Montana
1998: Salon de Printemps '98 , Lëtzebuerger Artisten Center, Théâtre Municipal, Luxembourg
2004: Strenges Holz, Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
2004: Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Wooden Cube from the Cubes Series , Chapel Gallery, Sculpture Center in Poland, Orońsko

2006: Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood , Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Sculpture Center in Poland, Orońsko

2006: Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood , City Gallery BWA, Jelenia Góra

2006: XV International Sculpture Triennial - Sensibility , “Zamek” Cultural Center, Poznań

2008: Alphabet of sculpture DEF ... , Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko

2009: Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Tabularium , Municipal Gallery, Gdańsk

2009: XVI International Sculpture Triennial - The Crisis of the Genre , Cultural Center “Zamek”, Poznań

2010: Wood as a material for sculpture , Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko

2011: Hamburg Art Week 2011 , Chilehaus , Hamburg

2013: NordArt 2013 , Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf

2013: PROJECT BERLIN RELOAD , FACTORY-ART GALLERY, Berlin

2015: Alphabet of sculpture VWZŹ ... , Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko

2015: Mailights 2015: Günther Uecker , Otto Piene , Heinz Mack , Jan de Weryha, Manfred Binzer , Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf

2018: The Wooden Sculpture in the Creation of Polish Artists 1918-2018 , Władysław Graf Zamoyski City Gallery in Zakopane , among others from the holdings of the National Art Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw and the State Art Gallery in Sopot

gallery

Memorial In memory of the deportees of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 in Hamburg-Neuengamme, 1999
Memorial in memory of the forced laborers deployed in Bergedorf, 2012
The de Weryha Collection in Hamburg houses a permanent exhibition of the artist's works

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses volume XXX, page 414, volume 145 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2008, ISSN 0435-2408 .

Individual evidence

↑ How is a private museum created? - An interview with Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański ( How is a Private Museum Set Up? - An interview with Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański ), Purpose for Europe magazine, No. 42, March 2008.
^ Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood , exhibition catalog, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Sculpture Center in Poland 2006, p. 10.
^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch , Adelige Häuser IV , Volume 8 of the complete series, Marburg 2018, p. 493.
↑ When the memorial is unveiled: Attack on Polish guests. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung. September 22, 2012, accessed August 9, 2020 .
^ Rafael Ritter von Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański , Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46.
↑ Rzeźba w drewnie w twórczości polskich artystów 1918-2018 , exhibition catalog, Zakopiańskie Centrum Kultury 2018, p. 32.

Web links

Commons : Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Collection of Images

Website of the de Weryha collection
Friends of the de Weryha Collection
Literature by and about Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański in the catalog of the German National Library
Materials by and about Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański in the documenta archive
PORTA POLONICA Documentation center on the culture and history of the Poles in Germany ( LWL-Industriemuseum )
Portrait and biography in culture extra
Criticism in culture extra
Criticism in culture extra

personal data
SURNAME	Weryha-Wysoczański, Jan de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gdańsk

[1] How is a private museum created? - An interview with Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański ( How is a Private Museum Set Up? - An interview with Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański ), Purpose for Europe magazine, No. 42, March 2008.

[CRP-2] Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański - Revelations in Wood , exhibition catalog, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Sculpture Center in Poland 2006, p. 10.

[GGH-3] Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch , Adelige Häuser IV , Volume 8 of the complete series, Marburg 2018, p. 493.

[4] When the memorial is unveiled: Attack on Polish guests. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung. September 22, 2012, accessed August 9, 2020 .

[Weryha-Wysoczański_2016-5] Rafael Ritter von Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański , Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46.

[6] Rzeźba w drewnie w twórczości polskich artystów 1918-2018 , exhibition catalog, Zakopiańskie Centrum Kultury 2018, p. 32.