Louis F. Dlugosz

After serving two years in the U.S. Army, he returned home and launched his career. Using his "pretzel-bending" technique, Dlugosz rolled clay into strips and bent them together for a lattice-work effect, resulting in sculpture with an open rather than a solid interior His work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and the Louvre in Paris. In 1982, his bust of Lech Wałęsa—surrounded by bars because the Polish labor leader was jailed by the Communist regime—was blessed by Pope John Paul II in the Vatican. A bust of kidnapped American reporter (Batavia, New York native) Terry Anderson in chains was displayed in a downtown Batavia New York Mall until his release from a Lebanese prison. The chains were smashed by Anderson during a visit to his hometown. The Louis Dlugosz Papers are held at Syracuse University.[2]