Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameJerzy Mieczysław•Jarnuszkiewicz
Used nameJerzy•Jarnuszkiewicz
Born27 February 1919 in Kalisz, Wielkopolskie (POL)
Died14 July 2005 in Warszawa (Warsaw), Mazowieckie (POL)
NOC Poland

Biography

Polish sculptor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz studied at the School of Decorative Art and Industrial Crafts, Kraków (1936-38), the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting, Warszawa (1938-39), and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa (1946-50), where he taught sculpture from 1950-85 holding the chair starting in 1972. After World War II he worked in the Office of Reconstruction. Jarnuszkiewicz was a member of an artist group that received an award for the memorial at the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, the International Monument to the Martyrdom of Auschwitz-Birkenau, designed in 1958 as part of the international competition.

By 1964, Jarnuszkiewicz created three public monuments in Warszawa, Lublin and Kalisz and several architectural sculptures. He was also well-known as a medal and graphic artist. In the 1960s he created geometric openwork metal sculptures of immense proportions set in urban spaces. These were remarkable sculptures of welded junk – hooks, blades, bayonets, chains, equipment parts, and abstract compositions. He later returned to religious themes and figures.

In 1948 Jarnuszkiewicz won a 1st prize for his woodcut Boks (18 x 20 cm) in the Polish national preliminaries. As a design for stained glass, the work was considered Applied Art according to the catalog.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1948 Summer Olympics Art Competitions POL Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz
Painting, Applied Arts, Open (Olympic) AC