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Sacred
Pietà, Crown of Thorns, Cross, Pensive Christ. Wood becomes prayer.
1950 — 2018 · in memoriam
Stanisław
Trybała
“The Michelangelo of Bogdanówka”
A sculptor of linden wood, stone, and silence. Raised in the Beskid mountains, trained at the Kenar school in Zakopane and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts — he chose to return to his native Skomielna Czarna, to capture in matter what words cannot describe.
In human history, everything that touches suffering finds its way into a painting or a sculpture, where a fragment of human passion is preserved.
Stanisław Trybała
Who he was
A master of linden wood.
He worked in wood, stone, and metal — but linden wood was his true medium.
From a single linden trunk he drew the Pietà, the Crown of Thorns, the Cross — and sensual female nudes interlaced with the resonant bodies of violins. Poet Emil Biela called these works “sculpture-poems.” Sacred and secular, sorrow and beauty — under his chisel, they were two sides of the same matter.
He adorned churches in Skomielna Czarna, Kielce, Myszków, Rzepedź, and Chrzanów. He exhibited in Kraków, Warsaw, Vienna, Fribourg. His works are held in private collections in the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, China, and Australia.
Read the full biographySelected works
Gallery
Eight pieces from different cycles — Pietà, Cross, Crown of Thorns, Violins, Torso. The full gallery contains over a hundred photographs.
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Classical
A tribute to Michelangelo’s anatomy. Surfaces polished to silken smoothness.
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Muses & Violins
The female body interlaced with the resonant chamber — “sculpture-poems.”
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Monumental
Stations of the Cross, altars, stained glass. Outdoor stations around his home church.
28 February 2018
He rests beside the church whose interior he shaped.
After a long illness he passed away at the age of 68. Buried in the parish cemetery in Skomielna Czarna. His final great work was the outdoor Stations of the Cross unveiled the year before, encircling his home church. This site exists so that the trace remains forever.
The man behind the chisel