Jan Nowak (speedway Rider)
Jan Nowak (1 July 1930 – 5 June 2010) was a Polish graphic designer and painter. Biography Nowak was born on 1 July 1930 in Siemianowice Śląskie. He studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the years 1951–1957. He obtained his diploma in the Graphic Arts studio of Professor Aleksander Rak. In 1960, he settled permanently in Tychy. He died in Tychy on 5 June 2010, at the age of 79. He practiced graphic arts: lithography, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, drypoint, painting, drawing, poster and book graphics. Many of his landscapes included panoramas of old Upper Silesia and the nearby Siemianowice Śląskie, as well as Katowice, Chorzów Chorzów ( ; ; german: link=no, Königshütte ; szl, Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – a metropolis ...
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Siemianowice Śląskie
Siemianowice Śląskie also known as Siemianowice (; german: Siemianowitz-Laurahütte; szl, Siymianowice) is a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice, in its central district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million people and is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river (tributary of the Vistula). It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Siemianowice is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation, the Katowice urban area, at the heart of the greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the city is 65,684 (2021). Siemianowice Śląskie borders four cities: Piekary Śląskie, Chorzów, Czeladź and the voivodeship capital Katowice. Etymology There are three hypothetical explanations for the origins of the name Siemianowice: either it ...
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