{"id":14492,"date":"2010-04-23T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.amber.com.pl\/medal-msciwoja-ii-dla-mariusza-drapikowskiego\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:47:11","slug":"msciwoj-ii-medal-for-mariusz-drapikowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/aktualnosci\/medal-msciwoja-ii-dla-mariusza-drapikowskiego\/","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Msstvo II for Mariusz Drapikowski"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, a nine-person panel appointed by the City Council (comprising: former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gda\u0144sk Tadeusz Goc\u0142owski, historian Andrzej Januszajtis, Professor of the University of Gda\u0144sk Edmund Kotarski, former President of Gda\u0144sk Jerzy M\u0142ynarczyk, Chairman of the Gda\u0144sk City Council Bogdan Oleszek, writer Jerzy Samp, former head of Stocznia Remontowa Piotr Soyka, journalist Barbara Szczepu\u0142a-Ponikowska, and theatre actress Halina Winiarska-Kiszkis) has awarded six Saint Adalbert medals and eight Prince Mestwin II medals. These silver medals have been awarded since 1997. They are presented to individuals, institutions, and organisations from Poland and abroad for outstanding services to the city. To date, 61 Saint Adalbert medals and 109 Mestwin II medals have been awarded.<\/p>\n

Besides Mariusz Drapikowski, recipients of the St M\u015bciwoj II Medal included writer Stefan Chwin, recognised for the high qualities of his literary works, which are deeply rooted in the atmosphere of Gda\u0144sk. This year's recipients of the St Wojciech Medal included Mayor Pawe\u0142 Adamowicz (for particular contributions to the strengthening and development of the idea of local government), Olympic rower Adam Korol (for outstanding sporting successes that bring fame to Gda\u0144sk around the world), Dominican friar Father Jacek Krzysztofowicz (for establishing an outstanding centre of spiritual culture in Gda\u0144sk), and the Baltic Centre of Culture (for many years of activity and a variety of valuable initiatives in the field of culture).<\/p>\n

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Mariusz Drapikowski: <\/strong>He graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. He runs the Drapikowski Studio art workshop \u2013 this year marks the 25th anniversary of his creative and artistic activity. During this time, his workshop has produced many amber sacred works, including monstrances, reliquaries and crosiers, as well as secular ones such as sculptures, unique jewellery and still-life compositions made of amber and silver. Among his more significant achievements of recent years are the reconstruction of the figures and the silver tabernacle dome of the Jasna G\u00f3ra Altar of the Fatherland, as well as the monumental Jerusalem Triptych, which was placed in 2008 in the Adoration Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament at the Fourth Station of the Way of the Cross in Jerusalem. Together with Professor Stanis\u0142aw Radwa\u0144ski, he is the co-designer of the Amber Altar in St. Bridget's Church in Gda\u0144sk. As a Gda\u0144sk-based artist in love with amber, he currently serves as the President of the International Amber Association. All works created in his workshop are signed with their place of origin: the World Amber Capital \u2013 Gda\u0144sk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 22nd April 2010, during a ceremonial session of the Gda\u0144sk City Council, Mariusz Drapikowski was honoured with the M\u015bciw\u00f3j II Medal for his outstanding sculptural work and for promoting Gda\u0144sk as the World Amber Capital. An exceptional laudation in his honour was delivered by Archbishop Tadeusz Goc\u0142owski.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Medal M\u015bciwoja II dla Mariusza Drapikowskiego - Amber Portal","description":"On 22 April 2010, during a formal session of the Gda\u0144sk City Council, with the M\u015bciwoj II medal for outstanding sculptural work and promoting Gda\u0144sk as the World Capital of B"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_sekcja":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"sekcja":[],"class_list":["post-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wydarzenia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"sekcja","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sekcja?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}