Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański

Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1 October 1950), known as Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, is a Polish sculptor, process artist 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, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 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. 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. In 2026 he received a Special Recognition by the Jury at the Osten Biennial 2026, Skopje, North Macedonia.