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We work to build good relations between Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, and Germans, as well as Catholics, Evangelicals, Orthodox Christians, Judaism, and non-believers. We work together, seeking what unites us and discussing our differences.

Since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Dobry Grunt Foundation has been involved in helping refugees, focusing on activities in the field of culture, establishing, together with the Ukrainian Action of the Catholic Intelligentsia Club, the project FACES OF LIGHT. POLISH-UKRAINIAN MEETINGS OF CREATORS OF SACRED ART. We organize plein-air painting workshops, exhibitions, concerts, charity auctions, and prayer meetings, enabling Ukrainian artists to work. Our collaborative work provides funding for therapeutic camps for the children and wives of Ukrainian soldiers killed or wounded in the war.

The Foundation has developed extensive activities in the field of art patronage, primarily sacred art. We engage in the social debate on sacred art. We organize seminars and are preparing to publish a book summarizing this debate.

We initiated and co-financed the Christ Pantocrator mosaic in the Church of Blessed Edward Detkens in Warsaw's Bielany district, created by the outstanding mosaicist Professor Alexander Kornoukhov, who left Russia for Georgia in protest against the war.

We care about the memory of the heroes of Polish history and their works. We help preserve cultural heritage.

The Foundation also publishes. Among other publications, we have published Bronisław Traczyński's Memoirs, an extraordinary story about the five-year journey of a young geometer in military service, along the Siberian Railway, from Kizyl-Arvat to Manchuria. It tells the story of encounters with people, wildlife, and customs...

The funder of the Dobry Grunt Foundation is the Geotest Sp. z o.o., which has supported us financially since our begining, providing us with space for meetings and discussions. We are also supported by private donors.

We thank all donors, both near and far. We thank you for your generosity, curiosity, interest, and trust. Your generosity allows us to do our work.

Thank you for being with us and for your presence with us on social media.

On behalf of the entire team of the Dobry Grunt Foundation - arch. Małgorzata Łukasiewicz-Traczyńska, president

About the Foundation

We are a group of friends. We were united by the need to give, the search for beauty in every person, the search for beauty in art, the search for what unites…

For many years we have been working effectively in the area of culture, charity and dialogue between religions. We organize concerts, exhibitions, film screenings. Our guests were Alicja Paleta - Bugaj, Tomasz Bugaj, Adam Ferency, Aleksandra Bugaj, Antonina Krzysztoń, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Adam Strug, Jacek Kleyff and many others.

A special figure that unites us is the person of Samuel Willenberg: Israeli artist, prisoner of Treblinka, participant of the Warsaw Uprising. We want to present him to the world and carry his message.

The Good Ground Foundation is a patron of art, primarily icons, but promotes artists from other fields of culture too. The Foundation is actively involved in care for the harmony and beauty of the sacred space by organizing seminars and meetings.

What we do

Samuel Willenberg

Bringing the last sculpture of Samuel Willenberg to Poland and including it the IPN exhibition “The Picture of Treblinka in the Eyes of Samuel Willenberg” 2020-2022, The painting of Treblinka in the (vision) of Samuel Willenberg.

Albumu Samuel Willenberg

Publishing of the bilingual album „Samuel Willenberg – Hero of Two Nations” which we invite you to view and purchase through samuelwillenberg.org

Actions supporting the Ukraine

Actions supporting the victims of the war in Ukraine. In cooperation with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw we organized auction of icons - religious paintings of Polish and Ukrainian artisans. All the proceeds from this auction were donated to the organization of therapeutic and recreational retreats for Ukrainian children whose fathers were killed or wounded in the war. Co-organisation of the exhibition Faces of War at the Norblin Factory in Warsaw. Funding a generator for the Ukrainian city of Kolomyi.

Prayer for peace

Together with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw we organized the worldwide prayer for peace in Ukraine and around the world. Invitation to this prayer went to all the christian communities, Greek church, Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical churches.

Icon exhibitions, painting workshops and seminars

Together with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw on initiative of Mateusz Środoń we organize the artistic workshops of painting the icons, involving Polish and Ukrainian (refugees from Ukraine) artists of religious art. Our workshops, exhibitions and seminars that accompany them are at the same time initiating a broader dialogue on restoration of the sacred art in Poland. So far, we have shown our icons at exhibitions in Warsaw, Kraków, Częstochowa, Supraśl and Oświęcim.

Sacred art

Patronage of sacred art – icons can be viewed in the section „Founded icons”

Icon with the blessed Ulm family

Organizing, together with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw, pilgrimage to Markowa to participate in the celebration of the beatification of the Ulm Family. The pilgrimage was preceded by a joint vigil before the image of the blessed Ulm family by Mateusz Środoń, which was then donated to the Museum of Poles Saving Jews During World War II in Markowa.

Restored monument of the Virgin Mary

Saving monuments, integrating and strengthening cooperation of local communities and descendants of former residents committed to preserve the historical memory. We have initiated a project to restore the chapel in the Municipality of Dąbrowa Zielona, and care of the old manorial park. We are working towards mounting a plaque commemorating the Tymowski family in the Church of St. Anne near Przyrów.

Founded icons

Icons for the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross

Icons for the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross: Blessed Mother Rosa Czacka by Hanna Dąbrowska-Certa, Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski by Anna Kopeć-Gibas

Triptych of the Holy Family

Icon for the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw: Triptych of the Holy Family with scenes from the childhood of the Lord Jesus by Hanna Dąbrowska-Certa

Cross of St.Thomas

Icon for Novicity oo. Dominicans - Angels carrying the Angelic Cross of St.Thomas of Aquinas by Małgorzata Klockowska

Icons for the Higher Metropolitan Spiritual Seminary of St. John The Baptizer in Warsaw

The Resurrection of Lazarus

The Resurrection of Lazarus

Entrance to Jerusalem

Entrance to Jerusalem

The Dream of the Mother of God

The Dream of the Mother of God

The Sending of the Holy Spirit

The Sending of the Holy Spirit

The Ascension of the Lord

The Ascension of the Lord

Joining the Abyss

Joining the Abyss

The Last Supper

The Last Supper

The Lord's Transformation

The Lord's Transformation

Team

Małgorzata Łukasiewicz-Traczyńska
Małgorzata Łukasiewicz-Traczyńska
President of the Foundation
Architect
Joanna Sawicka
Joanna Sawicka
Member of the Board
Geologist
Marcin Rafał Kucharski
Marcin Rafał Kucharski
Member of the Board
Geologist
Karolina Tymicka
Karolina Tymicka
Member of the Foundation Council
Student
Dominika Leszczyńska-Pogoda
Dominika Leszczyńska-Pogoda
Member of the Foundation Council
Legal counsel
Olga Wysocka
Olga Wysocka
Member of the Foundation Council
Doctor of medicine

Associates

  • Mikołaj Ciszewski - Sculptor
  • Marek Górski - Journalist
  • Mateusz Środoń - Iconographer, head of the JP2 Project with Decalogue and Tora of Samuel Willenberg, curator of the outdoor workshop in Łuczanowice
  • Krzysztof Żurowski - Director, set designer, cinematographer
  • Jerzy Traczyński - Sociologist, technical and technological support
    jerzy.traczynski
    @dobrygrunt.org
  • Paweł Traczyński - Full stack web developer, web support

Icon artists

  • Hanna Dąbrowska-Certa
  • Małgorzata Klockowska
  • Anna Kopeć-Gibas
  • Mateusz Środoń

Photos

  • Tomek Kaczor
  • Jarek Barański