Mockup of the city of Barlinek. The author is a well-known sculptor from Zielona Góra, Artur Wochniak. The artist was born on April 20, 1973 in Lublin. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań at the faculty of painting and sculpture. Diploma in sculpture with prof. Józef Kopczyński, he obtained with very good grade. After studying he returned to Zielona Góra, where he runs his sculpture studio all the time. A lot of monumental sculptures were created there. These include:
The Quadriga (Braunschweiger Quadriga) the largest in Europe located in Braunschweig on Schloss-Arkaden
Monument to St. Urban in Zielona Góra
Monument to Andrzej Huszcza in Zielona Góra,
Mnument to Czesław Niemen in Białogard,
Table by Klem Flechnerowski,
Bahuses simbols of Zielona Góra .
At the beginning of 2014, Arur Wochniak was invited by the sculptor Tomasz Radziewicz, a member of Udock Creative Studio, to collaborate on the sculpture depicting Geralt of Rivia, the hero of the books by Andrzej Sapkowski and the hit computer game “The Witcher”. The order was carried out at the request of CD Project Red – the creators of the game. Arthur’s impressions from the course of work “Working on the Witcher was an unusual and new experience for me. For the first time I faced fantasy style and probably now the most popular Polish hero of world pop culture, and I collaborated with the excellent and experienced sculptor Tomasz Radziewicz”.
Mockup of the city of Barlinek was cast in bronze. Dimensions are 1m x 1.5m.
The following buildings have been placed on the city plan: court, town hall, church, Chinese house, city walls, high school, Vormuhle mill, pharmacy Pod Orłem, Barlinek city gate, Gęsiarka fountain.
Some information about the project can be found below.
http://www.ebarlinek.pl/nowosci,aktualnosci,5,1,powstanie_makieta_miasta_na_rynk,661.html
Few historical information about the city plan are written below.
According to the monument’s card, the walls were built in the mid-fourteenth century. The preserved fragments are today over 600 years old. This is one of our oldest monuments, which testifies to the city’s past and its importance. City fortifications have also left their mark on our present day, i.e. today’s street layout. If you look at the map, you will see the building quarters in the center and streets drawn in the Middle Ages, e.g. The upper one, marking out the former course of the walls. To this day, we can admire the souvenir of the Great Water Gate, which existence reminds of the Chinese House, the bay window on the building is its reduced replica. The turret on the tenement house at ul. Independence 7.