January Weryha-Wysoczanski-Pietrusiewicz

Background

He was born in Gdańsk.

Education

From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

Career

Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg. 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. He is represented by Galerie Kellermann in Düsseldorf.

1978 60th Anniversary of the Greater Poland Uprising in Art, City BWA Arsenał, Poznań

1989 Autumn Salon, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg

1990 Germany in Montana, 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 Raw Wood.

Heiner Szamida, Helga Weihs, January de Weryha, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven

2004 January de Weryha-Wysoczański – Wooden Cube from the Wooden Cube Series, Chapel, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko

2005 January de Weryha-Wysoczański – Epiphanies of Nature in the Late-Modern World, Szyb Wilson, Katowice

2005 January de Weryha-Wysoczański – Wood – Archive, Patio, Łódź

2006 January de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood – Orońsko 2006, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko

2006 XV International Sculpture Triennial – Sensitivity, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznań

2006 January de Weryha-Wysoczański – Revelations in Wood, City BWA, Jelenia Góra

2008 Alphabet of the Sculpture DEF.., Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko

2009 January de Weryha-Wysoczański – Tabularium, Gdańsk City, 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, January de Weryha, Manfred Binzer, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf.

Achievements

• 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.