Zygmunt Stankiewicz

Zygmunt Stankiewicz (born February 1, 1914 in Białystok , † February 27, 2010 in Muri bei Bern ) was a Swiss sculptor and designer of Polish origin.

According to his own statement, Stankiewicz came from an aristocratic Polish / Lithuanian family, was in the Polish resistance from 1939 and fought in France in the Polish rifle division with the Resistance . In 1941 he and his comrades were interned in Switzerland. Since then, he has lived in Switzerland and married Catherine von Ernst, was an unskilled worker and in the meantime managed the Poland Museum in Rapperswil . As a designer, he built a factory for lighting fixtures with his wife in the 1960s. Through marriage, he became co-owner of Muri Castle and established, among other things, in the basement of the orangery the same “a museum on the freedom struggle of the Poles, which from the times of the Tsars to told about Soviet communism ”. As an artist, he first produced figurative stone, then “iron and aluminum sculptures of a constructivist direction” and painted watercolors inspired by nature and light. His philosophical works deal with the function of the artist as a driver of the social creation process. He was recognized as an artist and “freedom fighter” in various obituaries in the Swiss press.

Web links

Literature by and about Zygmunt Stankiewicz in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Zygmunt Stankiewicz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Zygmunt Stankiewicz in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Stankiewicz, Zygmunt. In: Sikart , accessed September 4, 2015.
↑ Zygmunt Stankiewicz has died. Büro dlb - Idea-Realization-Communication, March 2, 2010.
^ ^A ^b Willi Wottreng : Refugee, philosopher, lord of the castle: Zygmunt Stankiewicz, who was interned as a Pole in Switzerland, died at the age of 96. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 21, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Stankiewicz, Zygmunt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stankiewicz, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss sculptor and designer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Białystok
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 2010
Place of death	Muri near Bern

[sikart-1] Stankiewicz, Zygmunt. In: Sikart , accessed September 4, 2015.

[2] Zygmunt Stankiewicz has died. Büro dlb - Idea-Realization-Communication, March 2, 2010.

[nzz-3] A ^b Willi Wottreng : Refugee, philosopher, lord of the castle: Zygmunt Stankiewicz, who was interned as a Pole in Switzerland, died at the age of 96. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 21, 2010.