Jerzy Augustyn Koss
Architect, artist, photographer
Born Dec. 3, 1940, Gdynia, Poland; came to U.S., 1967; son of Augustyn and Amalia (Arendt); married Bogumila (Bilska); children: Tomira, Wlodek.
Education: Master of Arts (M.A.) (in architecture and urban planning), Technical University of Gdansk (Poland), 1965.
Career: architecture designer, urban planner, Paris (France), 1965-67, Montreal (Canada), 1967, Cleveland (OH), 1967-69, New York City, 1969-72; founder, Koss Family Artists, 1967 -.
Author: one-man painting and photo exhibitions., i.a.: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton (NY), 1977, Cairo (Egypt), 1979, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Connecticut, New Britain, 1981, Richard Daley Building, Chicago Civic Center (IL), 1982, The Vatican, 1982, Warsaw - Gdansk - Cracow - Wroclaw (Poland), 1983-84, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown (OH), 1986, Trenton State House Rotunda (NJ), 1985, 1986, and in New York City: World Trade Center, 1974, 1977, St. John the Divine Cathedral, 1974, Rockefeller Center, 1975, 1976, 1979, Park Avenue Atrium, 1983, 55 "Manhattan Magic" mural, Water St. (on view since 1984), World Financial Center, Dow Jones Building, 1986, Bennett and Siegel, 1989,1990; and numerous other; co-editor, Polish American Museum annual monographs, Port Washington (NY), 1978-91; numerous photographs published in books: Rebirth, A History of Europe since World War II, 1992, Gateway to America, by G. Bishop and J. Koss. (in progress), Visions, Fifty Years of the United Nations, by Eugeniusz Wyzner (Polish edition), 1995, and in newspapers and magazines: The New York Times, Nowy Dziennik, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Family Circle Magazine, Art Gallery Magazine, Architectural Record; photographs, paintings, feature stories published by press agencies: Reuter, UPI, AP, KYODO, ANSA, Agence France Presse, Can. Press, and presented by TV stations: CBS Evening News, CNN, NBC-TV, ABC-TV, ARD (German TV), TBS-Tokyo, PBS-TV Channel 13; paintings and photographs in private and public collections: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Guild Hall Museum, Harkness Foundation, New York Life, Con Edison, Knickerbocker Federal Savings Bank; stained-glass windows, Holy Family Cathedral, Antigua (West India), 1986-87.
Member of: historiographer, Paderewski Memorial Committee (involved in Paderewski's Heart relocation to Doylestown (PA), and Paderewski's Remains to Warsaw (Poland).
Honors: invited by president Anwar Sadat to organize peace exhibition of Koss family's artwork (300 paintings) in Cairo (Egypt), 1979; invited to organize exhibition for St. Maximilian M. Kolbe Canonization, Vatican, 1982; Special Blessing for Koss Family Artists, Pope John Paul II, 1982; invited by Polish Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp to organize exhibitions in Poland, 1983-84.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, French.
Hobbies: geography, art history, Poland.
Home: 210 5th Ave. #1101, New York, NY 10010.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996