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(1) Jan Jerzy [Johann Georg] Plersz
(b c. 1704; d Warsaw, 1774). Sculptor. He first trained in the workshop of Bartlomiej Bernatowicz (d 1730). In 1725 he executed his first sculptures on the façades of the wings of Elzbieta Sieniawska’s palace in Wilanów, near Warsaw. From 1731 he was employed by the Royal Office of Works, designing statues for the Saxon Garden, Warsaw, and in 1734 Augustus III (Frederick-Augustus II of Saxony) appointed him royal sculptor. At the Royal Castle in Warsaw Plersz executed sculptures (1741–52; destr. 1944; reconstr. 1971–84) that crowned the façade overlooking the Vistula (the Saxon wing) and the decorations of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies and of the castle chapel (destr. 1944). He was the author of numerous altars in Warsaw churches, including the high altar, pulpit and façade figures (1754–62) for the church of the convent of the Visitation and the high altar and a side altar with an altarpiece of the Marriage of the Virgin (c. 1771) in the church of the Discalced Carmelites. In Lowicz, Plersz executed the high altar (c. 1750) in the church of St Elias, two side altars (1746–7) in the Piarist church and the high altar (1761–4), to a design by Efraim Szreger, in the collegiate church. Plersz’s funerary monuments include the aedicular tomb of Jan Tarlo, the Governor of Lublin (1752; Warsaw, Jesuit Church; partly destr. 1944), and the monument to Adam Komorowski, Primate of Poland (1763; Lowicz, collegiate church). He also made a wooden model for the equestrian monument (1750; destr.) of Hieronim Florian Radziwill. His style combined dynamic late Baroque forms with delicate Rococo detailing.
Part of the Plersz family
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