Wawrzyniec Samp

Wawrzyniec Samp (born 25 June 1939) is a Polish sculptor and graphic artist.

Samp was born in Danzig, Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 1965, and now he has his own artistic study in the city. He specializes in Pomeranian-Kashubian, marine and sacral graphics.

Projects

Monument to the Poles who died for the Gdansk Polishness in German prisons, concentration camps and other places of execution in 1939–1945. His main projects include: monuments: Tym co za polskośc Gdańska, Gdańsk Czynu partyzanckiego kolejarzy, Czarna Woda Józef Wybicki, Kościerzyna Pope John Paul II, Gdynia Stefan Wyszyński, Gniezno Cathedral Świętopełk the Great Monument, Gdańsk Izydor Gulgowski and Teodora Gulgowska, Wdzydze Jerzy Popiełuszko, St. Brigid basilic in Gdańsk memorial plates: Józef Wrycza, Wiele and Zblewo bishop Konstantyn Dominik, Swarzewo primate Stefan Wyszyński, Józef Wybicki, patron of a high-school in Gdańsk-Orunia Loen Roppel, Luzino Florian Ceynowa, Wejherowo hospital Polish Kings Coronations, Gniezno cathedral Pope John Paul II, Gdynia Pope John Paul II, New Port in Gdańsk bishop W. Pluta, Gorzów Wielkopolski bishop Józef Drzazga, Olsztyn Jozef Wilczek, Luzino medals and medallions: 27 medals of Dukes of Pomerania 650-years of NMP basilic in Gdańsk Srebrna Tabakieta Abrahama Cech Piekarzy i Cukierników in Gdańsk 400-years of Gdańsk Library of PAN 40-years of Kashubian-Pomeranian Association

Publications: L. Bądkowski, W. Samp, Poczet książąt Pomorza Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 1974

Awards: Medal Stolema, 1974 Złoty Krzyż Zasługi Zasłuzonym Ziemi Gdańskiej Złoty Medal Prymasowski Zasłużony w posłudze dla Kościoła i Narodu Nadgoda Miasta Gdańska