Throughout his long professional life, both in his home country and across Europe, he was regarded as an authority. The best evidence of the recognition for his craftsmanship and knowledge was the fact that the Russian team working on the reconstruction of the Amber Room benefited from his experience.<\/p>\n
I met Wies\u0142aw at the editorial office of the magazine \u201eZ\u0142otnik-Zegarmistrz\u201d in 1987. Since then, I have witnessed his persistent struggle for a worthy place for the forgotten art of Gda\u0144sk amber craftsmen.<\/p>\n
Wies\u0142aw Gier\u0142owski was the founder and first chairman of the Main Association of Amberworkers in Poland, and co-created the Amberif trade fair. Together, we founded the quarterly magazine \u201ePolski Jubiler\u201d and together we developed the assumptions for the Gda\u0144sk World Amber Capital project. He became the first chairman of the World Amber Council.<\/p>\n
Wies\u0142aw Gier\u0142owski is the author of over 1000 scientific and journalistic publications. He regularly collaborated with professional journals in the field of goldsmithing. He organised scientific seminars on amber accompanying the Amberif International Fair of Amber, Jewellery and Gemstones in Gda\u0144sk.<\/p>\n
For his enormous contributions to amber craftsmanship, the Amber Association awarded him the title of Amber Craftsman of the Century in 2000.<\/p>\n
He had a huge positive impact on the entire industry, stimulating it to take on ever new challenges. But he left fulfilled, because his vision of restoring a worthy place for Gda\u0144sk amber craftsmen was realised.<\/p>\n
The funeral will take place at \u0141ostowice Cemetery, Armia Krajowa (70) section in Gda\u0144sk, on March 30th at 12:00 PM.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A certain era has drawn to a close in contemporary Polish amber craftsmanship. Wies\u0142aw Gier\u0142owski has passed away. He departed quietly, awaiting the conclusion of Amberif. He dedicated his entire professional life to amber. He made this stone a hallmark of Polish jewellery making.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Wies\u0142aw Gier\u0142owski nie \u017cyje - Amber Portal","description":"A certain era has closed in contemporary Polish amber craftsmanship. Wies\u0142aw Gier\u0142owski has passed away. He left quietly, waiting for Amberif to conclude. His entire life"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"sekcja":[],"class_list":["post-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informacje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","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=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"sekcja","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sekcja?post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}