The life of the outstanding artist, Janina Kłopocka, the creator of the graphic emblem of the Union of Poles in Germany, the so-called „Rodło“ sign, is a typical example of the knotty fate of Poles in...
The Polish artist and theatre maker, Józef Szajna, was imprisoned in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He spent almost two years in Maczków (Haren) on the Ems.
Die Ausstellung „Frömmigkeit und Nachtgesichte – Naive Kunst aus Polen im Spiegel der Moderne“ fand vom 21. Februar bis 10. April 2016 in der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen statt.
In his role as a radio director, writer and poet, Zdzisław (Rudolf) Nardelli was a leading cultural personality in Poland after the end of the Second World War. He was born on 18. October 1913 into an...
Are we looking at feel-good Germany or the forests of Mazovia, with their smell of leaves, mushrooms and melancholy? Małgosia Jankowska, born in Sochaczew, comes from a Polish district full of lakes a...
Halfway through her painting course Karina Smigla-Bobinski gave up the two-dimensional media in order to experiment with light and video installations. From then on space has been her favourite place ...
Krzysztof Meyer was born in 1943 in Krakow, where he lived until he moved permanently to Germany in 1987. For more than half a century he has been composing vocal and instrumental music for orchestra,...
Hermann Scheipers, a Catholic priest, honorary Canon of the Bishopric of Dresden-Meißen, and honorary Papal Prelate, was born on 24th July 1913 in Ochtrup in the region of Westphalia. Following his in...
Roland Schefferski was born in Kattowitz/Katowice in 1956. From 1971 to 1976 he attended the artistic grammar school in Breslau/Wrocław. Following this, from 1976 to 1981, he continued his studies in ...
Danuta Karsten, maiden name Chroboczek, was born in 1963 in the village of Mała Słońca, forty kilometres south of Danzig/Gdańsk. From 1978 to 1983 she attended the Artistic Lyceum in Gdynia. She subse...