Jozek Nowak
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→ Art Karlsruhe -2026.
→ Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt - 2024.
→ Art Muc Munich - 2024.
→ Galeria Bielska BWA BIelsko Biala - 2023
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Jozek Nowak is after Balkenhol one of the best German wood sculptors. Nowak grew up in a village in southern Poland near the winter sport retreat of Zakopane and his father worked as a lumberjack. Born in 1962, Nowak likes to remember this time - when a hatchet and a saw were his „first toys“.
After Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (1991), at first he created abstract forms. But when he and his wife, a restorer of paintings, moved to Pöcking on Lake Starnberg , he discovered his fondness for figures. „That resulted from the fact that I had to take care of our daughter quite a bit. She and the neighbours’ children were my first models“
„I like to watch people and I like to make portraits“, he says.
He gets his commissions from private people or institutes. The Diocese of Hamburg commissioned a sculpture of the Polish Pope Wojtyla, for the Polish consulate in Munich he created a memorial to honor the 200th birthday of the composer Frédéric Chopins, in Possenhofen on Lake Starnberg he immortalized Austria’s Empress Sissi for the town since she had close ties to the area.
Technically he proceeds in two stages. The rough outline of a figure is sawn, the finer details are done with a hatchet. Holger Christmann
