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DOI Artikel:Grauer, Elise F.: Bridging the gap: Count Athanazy Raczyński and his galleries in Poland and Prussia
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ELISE F. GRAUER
Friedrich Schinkel, was completed in 1829.54 Unlike the library, it does
not exist any longer. Slightly lower than the library, the gallery wing
was an elongated building on a rectangular ground with a regularly
structured facade and a hidden roof. Two exhibition rooms with high
ceilings were situated above a rusticated ground floor.55 On the gallery
floor, there were four large windows flanked by sculptures in niches.
1. Library and Gallery Raczyński in Poznań around 1830, in Wspomnienia Wielkopolskie III,
1843
Raczyhski’s plan to erect an exhibition building exclusively devoted
to pictures was without precedent in Poland. All other collections
displayed in publicly accessible museum-like spaces consisted of a
mixture of paintings, furniture, armour and other objects. Raczyński
was the first to install a Western European model of a public picture
gallery in Poland.
Originally, Edward and Athanazy had planned to arrange their
private flats in this cultural complex, thus achieving a connection
between living space and exhibition space, a concept that was to remain
an important aspect for Athanazy’s subsequent gallery projects. This
type of a ‘residence-museum’,56 developed by members of the old ruling
54 Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska (1982), op. cit. fn. 35, p. 204.
65 Arthur Kronthal, ‘Die Raczynski’sche Bibliothek’, in Bernhard Franke (ed.), Die
Residenzstadt Posen und ihre Verwaltung im Jahre 1911, Poznań 1911, p. 379.
66 Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska (1980), op. cit. fn. 4, p. 61; Katarzyna Murawska-
Muthesius, ‘Museums and national identity in Poland’, in Art and National Identity in
ELISE F. GRAUER
Friedrich Schinkel, was completed in 1829.54 Unlike the library, it does
not exist any longer. Slightly lower than the library, the gallery wing
was an elongated building on a rectangular ground with a regularly
structured facade and a hidden roof. Two exhibition rooms with high
ceilings were situated above a rusticated ground floor.55 On the gallery
floor, there were four large windows flanked by sculptures in niches.
1. Library and Gallery Raczyński in Poznań around 1830, in Wspomnienia Wielkopolskie III,
1843
Raczyhski’s plan to erect an exhibition building exclusively devoted
to pictures was without precedent in Poland. All other collections
displayed in publicly accessible museum-like spaces consisted of a
mixture of paintings, furniture, armour and other objects. Raczyński
was the first to install a Western European model of a public picture
gallery in Poland.
Originally, Edward and Athanazy had planned to arrange their
private flats in this cultural complex, thus achieving a connection
between living space and exhibition space, a concept that was to remain
an important aspect for Athanazy’s subsequent gallery projects. This
type of a ‘residence-museum’,56 developed by members of the old ruling
54 Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska (1982), op. cit. fn. 35, p. 204.
65 Arthur Kronthal, ‘Die Raczynski’sche Bibliothek’, in Bernhard Franke (ed.), Die
Residenzstadt Posen und ihre Verwaltung im Jahre 1911, Poznań 1911, p. 379.
66 Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska (1980), op. cit. fn. 4, p. 61; Katarzyna Murawska-
Muthesius, ‘Museums and national identity in Poland’, in Art and National Identity in