Sculptures by Elżbieta

Szczodrowska

Permanent exhibition in Stutthof Museum

in Sztutowo

About Stutthof Museum

• Stutthof was a German Nazi concentration camp completed on September 2, 1939 in a secluded, wet, and wooded area west of the small town of Stutthof (Sztutowo) 34 km east of the city of Gdańsk. It was the first camp built outside of 1937 (i.e., pre-Nazi) German borders and the last camp liberated by the Allies, on May 9, 1945. More than 85,000 victims died in the camp out of as many as 110,000 people who were deported there. (text credit: Wikipedia)

• After the war the complex was transformed to Stutthof Museum.

Entrance

Exhibition

Sculptures were created in 1970-ties during Vietnam War. But the horrors that people experienced in Asia opened artists wounds that were created during WWII in Poland.

All her sculptures show human suffering and the horrors of war. Every war.

Elzbieta Szczodrowska is mostly known for the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 in Gdańsk, Poland In her earlier works she shows the suffering of people during the War. She created sculptures of prisoners of the World War II, which are part of permanent exhibition in Stutthof Museum in Sztutowo, Poland. The most important and biggest project she and her husband Robert Peplinski were involved, was the interior décor of reconstructed church of Saint- Brigida in Gdansk.They created all sculptures in Baptisteries and the sculpted gate to it, the banister on the chorus consisting of series of sculpted musicians, Tabernacle, altar of Saint-Antoine and Saint-Mary of Czestochowa, and others… This works open the door to other Churches, where She created sculptures of Christ, Saints, and Convent(s) in Koscierzyna, where she and her husband made sculpted interior décor of the chapel. Elzbieta Szczodrowska loved to draw, pain and sculpt children, show their movement and expression. Artists worked also in Town of Buren in Germany where they created Fountain, and 2 and 3 dimentional compositions.

Photos: Marek Zarzecki© Copyright INHOUSEPRESS 2013

Elzbieta Szczodrowska in her Studio