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Wiesław Adamski
WiesÅ‚aw Adamski (26 July 1947 – 10 February 2017) was a Polish sculptor. He was born in Wierzchowo. Biography Adamski, who used to live in Szczecinek, graduated from State High School of Fine Arts in Szczecin, and then studied at the Sculpture Department of the University of Fine Arts in PoznaÅ„. He specialized in small sculptures, medals, portraits and blacksmithing. He was an art teacher, caricaturist, illustrator of books and magazines, and a humanist. Adamski's works were exhibited, among others, in: Helsinki, Poltava, Berlin, Madrid, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Paris. The artist's works of art can be found in the Erasmus Gallery in Rotterdam, the Art Gallery in Ravenna, the Regional Museum in Szczecinek, in Eutin, Germany, and in the National Museum in Warsaw. He made, among others, a giant potato monument (with a total height of 3.95 m, frame – 9 m high) in Biesiekierz near Koszalin, a series of medals on the 700th anniversary of Szczecinek, state emblem â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eutin
Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. Its meaning is not quite clear; it is probably derived from the personal name "Uta". The Slavic Obotrites tribe settled eastern Holstein in the 7th/8th centuries A.D. and built a Utin (castle), castle on Pheasant Island (Eutin), Pheasant Island in the lake now called the Großer Eutiner See. The originally Slavonic settlement of ''Utin'' was populated in the twelfth century by Dutch settlers. In 1156 Eutin became a market town. Town rights were granted in the year 1257. It later became the seat of the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, as Lübeck itself was an imperial free city. When the bishopric was secularized in 1803, Eutin became part of the Duchy of Oldenburg. As a result of the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937, Eutin passed from the Free State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieczyska, Grójec County
Pieczyska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chynów, within Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Chynów, Masovian Voivodeship, Chynów, north-east of Grójec, and south of Warsaw. References Villages in Grójec County {{Grójec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
