Andrzej Pitynski (15 March 1947,
Ulanów
Ulanów is a town in Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,491 inhabitants (02.06.2009).
It has grammar schools and high schools along with 2 churches. One of the churches was set on fire in 2004, and was closed for repairs. A ...
– 18 September 2020,
Mount Holly, New Jersey
Mount Holly is a township that is the county seat of Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is an eastern suburb of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city as of 2020, As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township's population w ...
) was a Polish-American monumental
sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
who lived and worked in the United States.
A book of his works was published in 2008.
Work
The Partisans
In January, 2006, his ''Partisans'' (1979) was removed from the corner of Beacon and Charles streets on the
Boston Common
The Boston Common (also known as the Common) is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest city park in the United States. Boston Common consists of of land bounded by Tremont Street (139 Tremont St.), Park Street, Beacon ...
, where it had stood since 1983. Although it was originally destined for
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
, the work – which depicts
guerrilla Polish freedom fighters in
World War II
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– was not welcomed in
communist Poland
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...
at that time. On September 6, 2006, the work was moved to the MBTA's Silver-Line
World Trade Center Station on the South Boston waterfront.
It was permanently relocated to the center median of D Street, at the intersection with Congress Street, on November 17, 2018.
Describing his "Partisans" Pitynski said, that he dedicated this monument to all "Fighters for Freedom in the World", and used Polish Partisans as an example.
Katyn Memorials
Pitynski has worked on a number of works remembering the
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre, "Katyń crime"; russian: link=yes, Катынская резня ''Katynskaya reznya'', "Katyn massacre", or russian: link=no, Катынский расстрел, ''Katynsky rasstrel'', "Katyn execution" was a series of m ...
including the
Katyn Memorial which stands in
Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey and the
National Katyń Memorial
The National Katyń Memorial is a monument in Baltimore, Maryland, which memorializes the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish nationals carried out by Soviet forces. Baltimore's Polish-American community was instrumental in having the mo ...
which stands in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.
Volhynian slaughter memorial
The memorial to the victims of the
Volhynian slaughter, commissioned by the
Polish Army Veterans' Association in America, designed by Andrzej Pityński in 2017, after casting in bronze will be erected in the National Memory Park in
Toruń
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, Poland.
Andrzej Pitynski on monuments
References
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The Partisans in Boston, An Epilogue Doomed Soldiers 1944–1963, The Untold Story
1947 births
2020 deaths
Polish sculptors
Polish male sculptors
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