Józef Gazy
Józef Gazy (1910–1998) was a Polish artist, sculptor and restorer. Author of several monuments set in public space in various cities in Poland. In the 1960s he served as the leader of a team responsible for removal, maintenance, conservation and restoration of frescoes from the cathedral of Faras. Biography Józef Gazy was born in 1910. In 1937, he graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1945 he joined the Office for the Reconstruction of the Capital (BOS). As part of his work there he was one of the creators of Warsaw's Monument to Brotherhood in Arms; he was also the sculptor to re-create the missing elements of the Sigismund's Column destroyed by the Germans during World War II. In the 1940s he was also one of the sculptors responsible for the decoration of the buildings of Marszałkowska Residential District in Warsaw. In 1951 he authored the Monument of Polish-Soviet Brotherhood of Arms in Legnica; during Stalinist period he created four additional monuments, similar to the one in Legnica, for various cities in Poland. In 1962 Józef Gazy became a member of the Polish archaeological expedition of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw conducting the excavations at