Wojciech Kułach, known as Wawrzyńcok (born March 24, 1812, in
Gliczarów, died December 23, 1897) was a Polish folk sculptor active in the
Podhale
Podhale (; ), sometimes referred to as the Polish Highlands, is Poland's southernmost region. The Podhale is located in the foothills of the Tatra range of the Carpathian Mountains. It is the most famous region of the Goral Lands which are a ...
region in the 19th century. He worked with wood, stone, and metal.
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In the year 1840, he created a bust for the monument to
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Lud ...
in a competition, for which he received the first prize.
He was nicknamed the "Leonardo da Vinci of Gliczarów." Kułach's sketches can be viewed in
Gliczarów Górny in the memorial room of Andrzej Skupień Florek.
Notable works
* Cross above
Czarny Staw pod Rysami
Czarny Staw pod Rysami, or Black Lake below Mount Rysy in English, is a mountain lake in the Tatra Mountains, Southern Poland. It is located on the Polish side of the highest mountain in Poland; Mount Rysy. At 1,583 m above sea level, it ove ...
* Wayside shrines on private properties in
Biały Dunajec
Biały Dunajec , is a village in southern Poland situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999; it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. It lies approximately north-east of Zakopane and south of the regional capital ...
* Crucified Christ, St. John, and the Virgin Mary in the rectory of the church in
Ludźmierz
* Virgin Mary in Janiłowa Kaplica on Koszarkowy Wierch
* Virgin Mary with the Child in the new church in
Białka Tatrzańska
Bialka Tatrzanska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bukowina Tatrzańska, within Tatra County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately north of Bukowina Tatrzań ...
* Three altars in the old church on Kościeliska Street in
Zakopane
Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has ...
.
John of Nepomuk
John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (; ; ) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393)
was a saint of Bohemia (a western part of what is now the Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts st ...
in Gliczarów Dolny
Gliczarów Dolny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biały Dunajec, within Tatra County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Zakopane and south of the regional capital Kraków
...
, 1844, artist Wojciech Kułach
File:Jesus Christ (1899), Gliczarów Dolny.jpg, Jesus Christ
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ...
, 1899, artist Wojciech Kułach
References
External links
Sculptor's biography*
ttp://mikkrakow.nazwa.pl/skarabeusz/?zabytek=106 Biography and photos of the artist's works
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1812 births
1897 deaths
19th-century Polish sculptors
Sculptors from the Austrian Empire
Sculptors from Austria-Hungary