Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

German sculptor

Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
De Weryha-Wysoczański in 2014
Born	(1950-10-01)1 October 1950
Education	Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Known for	Sculpture
Awards	Prix du Jury, Salon de Printemps, Luxembourg Golden Owl

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]

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

Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland
National Museum, Szczecin, Poland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, Poland

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)

1978 60th Anniversary of the Greater Poland Uprising in Art, City Gallery BWA Arsenał, Poznań
1989 Autumn Salon, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 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 Spring Salon '98, Luxembourg Artist Center, Municipal Theater, Luxembourg
2004 Strictly Wood. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven
2004 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Wooden Cube from the Wooden Cube Series, Chapel Gallery, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko
2005 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Epiphanies of Nature in the Late-Modern World, Szyb Wilson Gallery, Katowice
2005 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Wood – Archive, Patio Gallery, Łódź
2006 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
2006 XV International Sculpture Triennial – Sensitivity, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznań
2006 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood, City Gallery BWA, Jelenia Góra
2008 Alphabet of the Sculpture DEF..., Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko
2009 Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Tabularium, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk
2009 XVI International Sculpture Triennial – Crisis of the Genre, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznań
2010 Wood as Sculpture Material, 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 the 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 Wood Sculpture in the Work of Polish Artists 1918-2018, Władysław Count Zamoyski City Gallery in Zakopane, among others from the collections of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, and the State Art Gallery, Sopot
2021 Kunst Schaffen, Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg, with Klaus Fußmann, Ingo Kühl among others.^[21]

Gallery

Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg, 1999
Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers 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
A sculpture on the façade of the English House (left) in Gdańsk was reconstructed by the artist at the beginning of the 1980s

References

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 7th edition, Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG: Zug 2000, p. 3800, ISBN 3-7290-0030-6, OCLC 436805281.
^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 493, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e 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.
^ Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, ISBN 8389327376, OCLC 957590173.
^ Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, ISBN 3-936848-05-X, OCLC 1049130586.
^ Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, ISBN 3-598-24734-6.
^ Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999.
^ Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999.
^ Bild, 22 September 2012.
^ Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.
^ 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.
^ Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol IX, Leipzig 1841, pp. 447-9.
^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 498, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0,OCLC 995606854.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Kunst Schaffen". Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg. 2021.

Bibliography

Axel Feuß: Weryha-Wysoczański, Jan de, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL), vol. 116, Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2022, pp. 2-3, ISBN 978-31-1077-593-8, OCLC 464627280.