Marian Kurjata - Exhibition of sculptures and drawings in GALLERIA The Tower in Ursynów
date:June 04, 2024 Editor: Anna
We cordially invitation you to the exhibition of classical sculpture and drawing by Marian Kurjata IN GALLERIA the Tower on Ursynów parish of the ascendance of the Lord. Visiting the exhibition:
Sundays: 2 and 9 June 9-11 and 17-20
Saturdays: 1 and 8 June 17-20
Tuesday – Friday from 5.30 to 9.30 p.m.
Great head /forms of Polish poets and writers after the exhibition will return to the basement for the next 30 years.
Slavic - outdoor sculpture
Marian Kurjata born 17 October 1913 in Hipolititeka, Volyn as the boy of Teofil and Helena from the home of Moose. After graduating from the primary school in Kostopol, he was educated at the Tree manufacture School in Zakopane (1929 – 1932) among others in Wojciech Brzega's class. He then graduated from the Warsaw Municipal School of Fine Arts and Painting (1937). Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture started in 1937 in the studio of prof. Tadeusz Breyer interrupted planet War II - he obtained his diploma in 1947. From 1946 to 1951 he was employed as a elder assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts Department in the cathedral of prof. Tadeusz Breyer, and then prof. Bohdan Pniewski.
Since 1946, he lived and created on Saska-Kępa in Warsaw.
Marian Kurjata's work is diverse in both form, content and material. He created figure sculptures, portraits, designs of compositions for open spaces, tiny forms for interiors as well as sculptures with war and military themes.
He took part in respective twelve national and regional exhibitions in Warsaw and another cities and in global exhibitions and exhibitions of Polish Art abroad – Carrara, Moscow 1957, Budapest 1969, Paris 1975. Individual exhibitions in Warsaw in 1958, 1978, 1986. He participated in many competitions winning awards and distinctions, among others, competition for sports sculpture (1946), for the monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Łódź (1947), Frederick Chopin in Warsaw (1951), Heroes of Warsaw (1957).
From 1951 to 1964 he performed sculpture works - sculpture projects / reliefs for the Seym building. He worked on rebuilding the Chopin monument in Warsaw (model 1:2, 1955). He was besides active in conservation – he performed a reconstruction of 6 sculptures (the bust of philosophers) on the wall of the Library of the University of Warsaw (1960) in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
Some sculptures and realizations:
Warsaw in August 1944 (1945/46), Juliusz Słowacki (1956-58), remainder (1964), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1965), Border posts – figure group (1968), Monte Cassino-Falaise-Chambois (1974), Karol Szymanowski (1976), Teresa Żylis-Gara (1978) Janusz Groszkowski (1979), Władysław Sikorski (1981), Słowianka (1959-1972) outdoor sculpture - silver medal at the 4th Festival of Fine Arts in Zachęta W-wa 1972, monument to the January Uprisings of 1863 in Woli Cyrusów (1938), memorial to the memory of the Nazis Staszek and Janek Lilpopów in 1944 in Podkowa Leśna (1948), memorials at Powązki in the Street of Deserved Alexander Janowski (1951) and Jan Bulhak (1959), statue of St. Teresa (white marble) in the chapel of St. Joseph's Church in Torun (1967), memorial of Sulejówka residents who died in Nazi business years with sculptures of St. The above works are among the photos shown among the photos on the boards presented on the exhibition.
Kurjata was a associate of the Association of Polish Artists, Sculpture Section from 1945 until its dissolution in 1983. From 1958 to 1962, he served as president of the Management Board of the ZPAP Department of Sculpture. At the same time, he besides served as Deputy president of the Commission for the evaluation and valuation of sculptures at the Ministry of Culture and Art. He was a associate of the Artistic Council of the Sculpture Section of the Warsaw territory Board from 1977 to 1983.
In 1980, he was awarded the ZPAP Gold Badge by the Resolution of the General Board for his peculiar contribution to the fulfilment of the statutory objectives and tasks of the ZPAP.
In designation of his work he received awards: the Golden Cross of Merit (1955), bronze (1973) and silver (1980) medals for the National Defence and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Revival (1980).
He died on 5 September 1989 in Warsaw. Buried at the Military Cemetery on Powązki.
Since 1946, he lived and created on Saska-Kępa in Warsaw.
Marian Kurjata's work is diverse in both form, content and material. He created figure sculptures, portraits, designs of compositions for open spaces, tiny forms for interiors as well as sculptures with war and military themes.
He took part in respective twelve national and regional exhibitions in Warsaw and another cities and in global exhibitions and exhibitions of Polish Art abroad – Carrara, Moscow 1957, Budapest 1969, Paris 1975. Individual exhibitions in Warsaw in 1958, 1978, 1986. He participated in many competitions winning awards and distinctions, among others, competition for sports sculpture (1946), for the monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Łódź (1947), Frederick Chopin in Warsaw (1951), Heroes of Warsaw (1957).
From 1951 to 1964 he performed sculpture works - sculpture projects / reliefs for the Seym building. He worked on rebuilding the Chopin monument in Warsaw (model 1:2, 1955). He was besides active in conservation – he performed a reconstruction of 6 sculptures (the bust of philosophers) on the wall of the Library of the University of Warsaw (1960) in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
Some sculptures and realizations:
Warsaw in August 1944 (1945/46), Juliusz Słowacki (1956-58), remainder (1964), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1965), Border posts – figure group (1968), Monte Cassino-Falaise-Chambois (1974), Karol Szymanowski (1976), Teresa Żylis-Gara (1978) Janusz Groszkowski (1979), Władysław Sikorski (1981), Słowianka (1959-1972) outdoor sculpture - silver medal at the 4th Festival of Fine Arts in Zachęta W-wa 1972, monument to the January Uprisings of 1863 in Woli Cyrusów (1938), memorial to the memory of the Nazis Staszek and Janek Lilpopów in 1944 in Podkowa Leśna (1948), memorials at Powązki in the Street of Deserved Alexander Janowski (1951) and Jan Bulhak (1959), statue of St. Teresa (white marble) in the chapel of St. Joseph's Church in Torun (1967), memorial of Sulejówka residents who died in Nazi business years with sculptures of St. The above works are among the photos shown among the photos on the boards presented on the exhibition.
Kurjata was a associate of the Association of Polish Artists, Sculpture Section from 1945 until its dissolution in 1983. From 1958 to 1962, he served as president of the Management Board of the ZPAP Department of Sculpture. At the same time, he besides served as Deputy president of the Commission for the evaluation and valuation of sculptures at the Ministry of Culture and Art. He was a associate of the Artistic Council of the Sculpture Section of the Warsaw territory Board from 1977 to 1983.
In 1980, he was awarded the ZPAP Gold Badge by the Resolution of the General Board for his peculiar contribution to the fulfilment of the statutory objectives and tasks of the ZPAP.
In designation of his work he received awards: the Golden Cross of Merit (1955), bronze (1973) and silver (1980) medals for the National Defence and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Revival (1980).
He died on 5 September 1989 in Warsaw. Buried at the Military Cemetery on Powązki.
