Hardback in new condition, contains many colour photographs of Jan de Weryha's sculptures, exhausting lists of his bibliography, exhibitions, films, prizes, collections, commissions, biographies of authors and essays and texts by the following contributors: Mag. Maryla, Madame de Weryha-Wysoczańska (philologist, poet, contributor of a poem), Mag. Jan de Weryha (sculptor, contributor of a foreword), Professor Dr habil. Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz (main authority on Polish émigré art, contributor of an introduction), Chevalier Dr Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański (art historian, writer, editor and contributor of two essays), Professor Dr Lars Mextorf (art historian and curator, contributor of an essay), Professor Dr Christina Weiss (former German minister for culture, contributor of an essay), Professor Dr Helmut R. Leppien (former chief curator and deputy director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, professor HFBK-Hamburg, author of the catalogue raisonné of Max Ernst's graphic work, contributor of an essay), Dr Volker Probst (art historian, editor of Ernst Barlach's catalogue raisonné, contributor of an essay), Dr Dorota Grubba-Thiede (main authority on Polish contemporary sculpture, contributor of an essay).
From the overleaf:
I refer, the creation process and the process art sculptures by Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański quite symbolically to my process of scientific research started in 1989 in the field of Polish art created in exile and to developing a full picture of the contemporary history of Polish art. We gain it only through uniting the artistic output created in Poland with the accomplishments of Polish artists and those of Polish descent – like Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański who had worked and have been still working outside of Poland in European and non-European countries. In this new, full corpus of achievements of Polish art of the 20th and 21st centuries, one of the most important names will be the one of Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, master of sculptural
“revelations not only in wood”. Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz