Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

{{short description|German sculptor}}

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Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-PietrusiewiczGenealogisches 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. (born 1 October 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor,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}}.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}}. process artistJan de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Orońsko: Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Centre 2006, p. 6, {{ISBN|8389327376}}, {{OCLC|957590173}}. and concrete artist.Daniel Spanke, Strenges Holz. Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, Jan de Weryha, Bielefeld 2004, p. 7, {{ISBN|3-936848-05-X}}, {{OCLC|1049130586}}.

He was born in Gdańsk. 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. 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.Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 2005, vol II, p. 864, {{ISBN|3-598-24734-6}}. 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,Taz Hamburg, 27 April 1999.Hamburger Abendblatt, 27 April 1999. in 2012 a memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf.Bild, 22 September 2012.Hamburger Morgenpost, 22 September 2012. 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.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.

He comes from an old noble family of WalachianGothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 487, {{ISBN|978-3-9817243-7-0}}, {{OCLC|995606854}}. boyarChevalier 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}}. stock and legend has it that his coat of arms is borne by the descendants of Attila the Hun.Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol IX, Leipzig 1841, pp. 447-9. His only son Rafael is a writer, his uncle Basil was a rich 19th century philanthropist. A son of his aunt AnnaGothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 498, {{ISBN|978-3-9817243-7-0}},{{OCLC|995606854}}. was composer Yaroslav Yaroslavenko. Another cousin was industrialist, novelist and playwright Bronislas, 3rd Chevalier de Minkowicz-Wysoczański.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}}.