Enchantment

Krystyna Filipska-Frejer is the author of the granite sculpture located in the garden in front of the Sierakowski Manor House. The work, known under two titles: “Enchantment” and “Dawn”, depicts the torso of a girl with her hands clasped behind her head. The figure stands on an irregular, angularly carved granite boulder. Her slender, graceful figure and delicate, dreamy facial features were captured in a stone shape in an allusive way. The artist created the work in 1979 for the city of Sopot.

Krystyna Filipska-Frejer was born in 1938 in Rypin. She received her artistic education at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, in the sculpture studio of Professor Stanisław Horno-Popławski and in ceramics in the studio of Professor Hanna Żuławska. She reconstructed sculptures during the post-war reconstruction of Gdańsk – she created the figure of Fortuna crowning the Golden Tenement House. Together with her husband Romuald Frejer, she co-created the Student Pantomime Theater of Hands and Objects “Co To”, shown in 1960 in Janusz Morgenstern’s film “Goodbye, see you tomorrow”. Throughout the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, she lived in the United States, where she took an active part in artistic life.

Author: Krystyna Filipska-Frejer
Date: 1979
Material: granite
Location: Dworek Sierakowskich, ul. Czyżewskiego 12

Photo: Klaudyna Karczewska.