{"id":4129,"date":"2023-03-28T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/?post_type=object&p=4129"},"modified":"2023-03-28T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:31:04","slug":"arthur-schopenhauer","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/obiekt\/arthur-schopenhauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Schopenhauer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technique: <\/strong>granite sculpture<\/p>\n

Material: <\/strong>granite<\/p>\n

Dimensions: –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Object: <\/strong>Boles\u0142aw Marschall\u2019s sculpture of Arthur Schopenhauer forms part of the \u201cGreat Citizens of Gda\u0144sk\u201d section of the Gda\u0144sk Open-Air Sculpture Gallery. It was created in 2008 during the Kashubian Granite Sculpture Plein-Air, which took place in the Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie. The open-air workshop was attended by 11 artists representing a generation of masters and a generation of students. All of them were asked to depict famous inhabitants of Gda\u0144sk in granite. A total of 11 sculptures were produced and subsequently placed in Gda\u0144sk\u2019s Ronald Reagan Park. At present, the gallery is composed of ten works, one of them incomplete; Bente Kluge\u2019s statue of Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa has disappeared.<\/p>\n

Boleslaw Marschall immortalized the figure of Arthur Schopenhauer, the famous philosopher who was born in Gda\u0144sk. The sculpture consists of three parts, with the lowest and at the same time the smallest one serving as the plinth. The middle one already forms part of the sculpture proper: the carved torso of Arthur Schopenhauer dressed in line with 19th<\/sup>-century men\u2019s fashion. The highest and at the same time largest part of the sculpture shows the philosopher\u2019s face, depicted in line with Schopenhauer\u2019s known portraits. The philosopher\u2019s trademark tousled hairstyle is also rendered in a very faithful way. The facial features are so exact that it is very easy to recognize the bust of the Gda\u0144sk philosopher. Just as the sculpture\u2019s successive elements, seen from top to bottom, are arranged from the largest to the smallest, the colour gradation of the individual parts is opposite to the size \u2013 from the brightest in the lowest part to the darkest in the highest. The sculpture is one-sided; it was not elaborated in the back part. This makes it possible to observe the different textures of the stone and the joints used between individual parts of the sculpture.<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong> The \u201cGreat Citizens of Gda\u0144sk\u201d Open-Air Sculpture Gallery is located in the park named after President Ronald Reagan, an honorary citizen of Gda\u0144sk. The gallery may be found in the part of the park situated in the Przymorze Wielkie neighbourhood. The 85 ha park stretches along the coastal belt of Gda\u0144sk, encompassing the districts of Przymorze Wielkie, the western part of Brze\u017ano and the eastern part of the \u017babianka-Wejhera-Jelitkowo-Tysi\u0105clecia quarter. This area used to be occupied by temporary allotment gardens and wasteland. The plan to develop the seaside area for recreational purposes was drawn up in 2001 and implemented in stages until 2014. In addition to areas where one can relax, engage in physical activity or make a bonfire, the park was diversified with outflow ponds with living shorelines and nesting islands for waterbirds. In 2008, the Ronald Reagan Park in Gda\u0144sk received a distinction from the Society of Polish Town Planners (TUP), which recognized it as the best managed green space in Poland.<\/p>\n

Information about the author: <\/strong>Boles\u0142aw Marschall (b. 1938 in Toru\u0144) is a sculptor. He studied sculpture as well as architectural and sculptural design at the State School of Visual Arts (PWSSP) in Gda\u0144sk \u2013 the present-day Academy of Fine Arts (at Prof. Stanis\u0142aw Horno-Pop\u0142awski\u2019s studio and Prof. Adam Smolana\u2019s studio, respectively). In 1972, he settled in Reszel, where he became the manager of the local castle on behalf of the \u201cPojezierze\u201d Social and Cultural Association and the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He founded a centre of European art in Reszel, organizing art and cultural events. Marschall is the author of a series of works commemorating Janusz Korczak (Olsztyn, Giessen, Hannover, Paris) and Nicolaus Copernicus (Lidzbark Warmi\u0144ski, I\u0142awa, Mr\u0105gowo, Philadelphia). His other famous sculptures include the Monument to the Heroes of the Struggle for the Liberation of Warmia and Mazury <\/em>(Jakubowy Park, Olsztyn) and Leda with a Swan <\/em>(Podzamcze Park on the \u0141yna River, Olsztyn, 1963). The sculptor was portrayed in the biographical documentary Kasztelan <\/em>(\u201cCastellan\u201d, 1995) written by Janusz Kijowski and directed by Grzegorz P\u0142och.<\/p>\n

Condition of the object: <\/strong>no remarks<\/p>\n

Owner\/guardian: <\/strong>Gda\u0144sk Community Foundation<\/p>\n

Author of the entry:<\/strong> Dorota Kucharczyk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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