Józef Gazy

As part of his work there he was one of the creators of Warsaw's Monument to Brotherhood in Arms;[3] he was also the sculptor to re-create the missing elements of the Sigismund's Column destroyed by the Germans during World War II.

[7] He led the field team of art restorers which dealt with securing frescoes discovered in the cathedral of Faras, preserving them, removing them from the walls and preparing them for transport.

[10] He remained part of the team until the very end of excavations, and left it only with the last group of Polish archaeologists, together with professor Michałowski, Stefan Jakobielski, Tadeusz Dzierżykray-Rogalski, Marek Marciniak, Antoni Ostrasz and photographer of the expedition, Andrzej Dziewanowski, soon before the Faras site was flooded by the waters of newly-constructed Lake Nasser.

[11] While working in Egypt, Gazy also helped William Y. Adams with maintenance and restoration of frescoes at the nearby archaeological site of Meinarti.

[11] Upon his return to Poland, he joined the team of restorers preparing the exhibition of the Polish part of the Faras collection, led by Hanna Jędrzejewska.

Józef Gazy, professor Kazimierz Michałowski and Barbara Lewandowska in a conservation laboratory of the National Museum in Warsaw . Frescoes from the Faras Cathedral in the background.
Socialist-realist Polish-Soviet Brotherhood in Arms Monument in Legnica is one of the best-known sculptures by Józef Gazy