Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1] (born 1 October 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor,[5] process artist and concrete artist. From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg.
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Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

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- Name
- Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
- Born
- 1 October 1950
- Field
- Sculpture
- Training
- Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
- Awards
- Prix du Jury, Salon de Printemps, Luxembourg Golden Owl
- Nationality
- Poland and Germany.
- Occupation
- sculptor.
- Fields
- art of sculpture.
- Movements
- process art.
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
- Teachers
- Adam Smolana and Alfred Wiśniewski.
- Known for
- Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg and Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg.
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Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1] (born 1 October 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor,[5] process artist and concrete artist. From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg.
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Biography
Biography
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.[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,[10] in 2012 a memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf.[11][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 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. 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]
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Training under Adam Smolana and Alfred Wiśniewski is recorded. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Residence is recorded at Hamburg. Works named in the authority record are Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg and Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg. Work by Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Szczecin, Polish Sculpture Centre and Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom. Distinctions recorded are Golden Owl.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański • Born — 1 October 1950 • Field — Sculpture • Training — Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk • Awards — Prix du Jury, Salon de Printemps, Luxembourg Golden Owl • Illustration — The Wukry coat of arms
Sammlung de Weryha
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)
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
Gallery
• Illustration — Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg, 1999 • Illustration — Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2012 • Illustration — Memorial for the Nazi forced labourers (detail) in Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2012 • Illustration — Sammlung de Weryha in Hamburg housing a permanent exhibition of the works of the artist • Illustration — A sculpture on the façade of the English House (left) in Gdańsk was reconstructed by the artist at the beginning of the 1980s
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
His recorded language was German. He was the child of Janusz Maria Ritter von Weryha-Wysoczanski and Olga Döringer. He married Maria Fiedorowicz. One child is recorded: Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański. Other recorded relations include Barbara Wysoczańska, Yaroslav Yaroslavenko and Basil, Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański.
Identity
Identity
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as a citizen of Germany.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1950
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański was born on 1 October 1950.
2026
Jan de Weryha (2026) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański was born at Gdańsk.
Birthplace
Hamburg.
Residences
Gdańsk.
Birth place
Works in museum collections
Works in museum collections
• Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland • National Museum, Szczecin, Poland • Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, Poland
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Context
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q473632: Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański
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- 1.Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412–420, , .
- 2.Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 7th edition, Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG: Zug 2000, , , .
- 3.Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 493, , .
- 4.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.
- 5.Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii (Encyclopedia of the Polish Emigration and of the Poles Abroad), Toruń 2005, vol V, pp. 234–5, , .
- 6.Polak w świecie. Leksykon Polonii i Polaków za granicą (The Pole in the World, Encyclopedia of the Polish Living Abroad), Warsaw 2001, p. 336, , .
- 7.Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, , .
- 8.Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, , .
- 9.Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, .
- 10.Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999.
- 11.Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999.
- 12.Bild, 22 September 2012.
- 13.Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012.
- 14.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.
- 15.Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, , .
- 16.Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 1, , .
- 17.Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol IX, Leipzig 1841, pp. 447-9.
- 18.Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 498, , .
- 19.Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4, , .
- 20.Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46, , .
- 21.Yachting Heritage Centre, Flensburg. Kunst Schaffen. 2021.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- 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, , .
- Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański (ed.): Jan de Weryha: The Monograph, Toruń, Hamburg: Oficyna Wydawnicza Kucharski, Freundeskreis Sammlung de Weryha e.V. 2026, , .
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Formation and teaching. Weryha-Wysoczański studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He trained under Adam Smolana and Alfred Wiśniewski. Weryha-Wysoczański received Golden Owl. Connected to 2 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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Work by Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański is
National Museum in Szczecin, Polish Sculpture Centre and Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom
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