Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

Who is Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański?

Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor and Concrete artist. 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, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98', Luxembourg. 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, in 2012 a memorial for the Nazi forced labourers in Hamburg-Bergedorf.