JULIAN KLAMERUS

JULIAN KLAMERUS WAS BORN IN 1952 IN ZAKOPANE. AT FIRST, HE WAS NOT EAGER TO LEARN. IN THE FIFTH GRADE, THANKS TO MARIA JARZĘBOWSKA, WHO TAUGHT GEOGRAPHY, THERE WAS A REAL BREAKTHROUGH IN HIS EDUCATION. YOUNG KLAMERUS BECAME FASCINATED BY THE TATRA MOUNTAINS, IT WAS THEN THAT HIS LOVE FOR MOUNTAIN CLIMBING WAS BORN IN HIM, TO LATER BLOSSOM DEEPLY. HE CONQUERED PEAKS IN THE ALPS, AND THE DOLOMITES, AND HAS BEHIND HIM A NOSHAK IN AFGHANISTAN (7492 M). WITH HIS SKILLS HE ONCE ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF FILMMAKERS - HENCE YOU CAN SEE HIM IN ZANUSSI ILLUMINATION. AN ETHNOGRAPHER BY TRAINING, BUT HE HIMSELF EMPHASIZES THAT HE IS SELF-TAUGHT. A BORN STORYTELLER. COMMUNING WITH HIM, YOU GET THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU HAVE A REAL BOOK OF FOLK KNOWLEDGE IN FRONT OF YOU. HE SCULPTS. SOMETIMES FROM FOUND OR FADED OBJECTS. IS THE CREATOR OF SHRINES IN KRYNICA AND ON WALOWA MOUNTAIN IN ZAKOPANE. PAINTS. PRIMARILY IMAGES OF CHRIST AND THE MOTHER OF GOD. HE IS SOMETIMES COMPARED TO THE NIKIFOR OF KRYNICA - ACCORDING TO THE ARTIST HIMSELF, RIGHTLY SO. HE LIKES CHALLENGES. CREATED A MURAL WITH SAINTS IN NEW MARKET, WHERE HE STILL LIVES TODAY. HE QUOTES THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS FROM MEMORY. HIS SPECIAL SPIRITUAL PATRON REMAINS BROTHER ALBERT - THE EMBODIMENT OF MERCY. HE DEVOTES HIMSELF TO ALTRUISTIC ACTIVITIES WITH UNQUENCHABLE ENTHUSIASM. FOR MANY YEARS, DESPITE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES, HE RAN A SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS. CARE IS UNITED IN THE ARTIST WITH SPIRITUALITY. KLAMERUS IS A MAN DEEPLY IMMERSED IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, ALTHOUGH, AS HE SAYS, HE CAME TO IT RELATIVELY LATE. HE WRITES - POETRY - HE SAYS THAT WHEN THE URGE STRIKES HIM, HE WRITES DOWN WORDS ON WHATEVER HE CAN FIND. HE LIVES MODESTLY, DERIVING WEALTH FROM ART AND CLOSENESS TO OTHERS.