Sculptures at the stoop to Alfons Łosowski’s former studio

Technique: sculpture, granite

Dimensions: approx. 40 cm (height)

Object: The stoop features two granite sculptures depicting stylised human heads chained to the ground. The works’ titles are unknown, they were probably placed after the artist’s death.

Place: Alfons Łosowski had an art studio in a tenement house at 11/13 Mariacka Street from 1955 until his death in 1988. Following his passing, the studio was meant to become a memorial room, but this idea was eventually abandoned and it now serves as Andrzej Dębowski’s sculpture studio.

Information about the author: Alfons Łosowski (04 Jan 1908–27 Jun 1988). Born in Orkiewicze in the Novogrudok region (currently in Belarus). He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the S. Báthory University in Vilnius under the supervision of Prof. Kuna, Mikenas and Aleksandrowicz.

During the war, he was a Home Army soldier of the Vilnius district. After the war, he settled in Gdańsk. Until 1955, he was working on reconstructing sculptures as part of the Gdańsk Old Town restoration. He brought back to life sculptures decorating many façades of the most famous tenement houses, all based on modest, surviving photographic documentation. In 1955, he started independent creative work in his studio at 11/13 Mariacka Street.

He authored several outdoor sculptures within the Gdańsk area, which he donated to the city in 1966, as well as many sculptures in public buildings in Poland, in museums and private collections. Granite and wood were his primary working materials. He created a distinctive style that combined organic form with a natural stone texture.

Condition: good

Owner: deposit of Alfons Łosowski’s heirs

Author of the entry: Kora Kowalska