Puget Jacek

Sculptor, son of Ludwik Puget, born in 1904, died in 1977 in Kraków. While he was a junior high school student, he fought in the Wielkopolska and Silesian Uprisings. In the years 1923-1925 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and in Paris in the studio of prof. Emil A. Bourdelle. Member of artistic associations “Rzeźba”, “K.P” and others. He created the scenery for the Cricot theater, he also acted there as a dancer, he wrote texts for the cabaret created by his father, “Pink Cuckoo. He also collaborated with left-wing organizations: MOPR, KPP, PPS-Left. During the Nazi occupation, he was active in the ZWZ and the Home Army. Together with his wife – Zofia Szczęsnowicz, also a sculptor, they hide Jews, Home Army soldiers and PPR activists in their apartment and studio. They collaborated with the “Żegota” Council to Aid Jews. In later years he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1952 he was awarded the State Prize. He sculpted nudes, heads, figural compositions, portrait busts of, for example, Stefan Jaracz or Magdalena Potworowska.