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DOI Artikel:Morawińska, Agnieszka: Exhibition of Polish Painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts
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1. Exhibition of Polish Painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts (photo courtesy of the
Detroit Institute of Arts)
Some Polish artists active at the turn of the centuries are known to foreign public from earlier
exhibitions. Works by Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Witold Wojtkiewicz were included
in the grand international review Le Symbolisme en Europe shown in the years 1975-—76 in
Brussels, Rotterdam, Baden-Baden and Paris. In 1980 the Württembergischer Kunstverein
in Stuttgart, the Kunsthalle in Kiel and the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum der Stadt Duisburg
mounted a monographic exhibition devoted to Jacek Malczewski arranged in cooperation with
the National Museum in Poznań. Works by Malczewski, Wojtkiewicz and Wyspiański — as
predecessors of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz — were displayed by the Museum of Art of Łódź
at the exhibition Hommage à Witkacy held in the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf in 1980, while works
by Malczewski and Wojtkiewicz were presented by the National Museum in Poznań at the
exhibition Simbolo. Espressione. Metafora in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Con-
temporanea in Rome in 1981.
Within more comprehensive art shows, such as for example Polnische Malerei 1830—1914,
arranged by the National Museum in Warsaw and shown in the Kunsthalle in Kiel, the Würt-
tembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart and the Yon der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal in 1978,
paintings from the turn of the centuries met with the greatest interest from both the public and
the critics. This, as well as the opinion of our American colleagues confirmed our resolution
to acquaint the American public with this particular epoch in the history of Polish art.
The display encompassed 105 works coming from eleven museums and four private collections.
The earliest painters represented at the exhibition were Adam Chmielowski (1845—1916),
Witold Pruszkowski (1846-96) and Józef Chełmoński (1849—-1914), while the youngest included
Stanisław Czajkowski (1878—1954) and Witold Wojtkiewicz (1879—-1909). The highlights of
the exhibition were large groups of paintings by Jacek Malczewski and Witold Wojtkiewicz
(sixteen each), followed by almost just as well represented Józef Pankiewicz, Olga Boznańska,
Wojciech Weiss, Władysław Ślewiński, Ferdynand Ruszczyć, Konrad Krzyżanowski and,
thanks to a happy coincidence, Stanisław Wyspiański. His works are usually absent on exhi-
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Detroit Institute of Arts)
Some Polish artists active at the turn of the centuries are known to foreign public from earlier
exhibitions. Works by Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Witold Wojtkiewicz were included
in the grand international review Le Symbolisme en Europe shown in the years 1975-—76 in
Brussels, Rotterdam, Baden-Baden and Paris. In 1980 the Württembergischer Kunstverein
in Stuttgart, the Kunsthalle in Kiel and the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum der Stadt Duisburg
mounted a monographic exhibition devoted to Jacek Malczewski arranged in cooperation with
the National Museum in Poznań. Works by Malczewski, Wojtkiewicz and Wyspiański — as
predecessors of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz — were displayed by the Museum of Art of Łódź
at the exhibition Hommage à Witkacy held in the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf in 1980, while works
by Malczewski and Wojtkiewicz were presented by the National Museum in Poznań at the
exhibition Simbolo. Espressione. Metafora in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Con-
temporanea in Rome in 1981.
Within more comprehensive art shows, such as for example Polnische Malerei 1830—1914,
arranged by the National Museum in Warsaw and shown in the Kunsthalle in Kiel, the Würt-
tembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart and the Yon der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal in 1978,
paintings from the turn of the centuries met with the greatest interest from both the public and
the critics. This, as well as the opinion of our American colleagues confirmed our resolution
to acquaint the American public with this particular epoch in the history of Polish art.
The display encompassed 105 works coming from eleven museums and four private collections.
The earliest painters represented at the exhibition were Adam Chmielowski (1845—1916),
Witold Pruszkowski (1846-96) and Józef Chełmoński (1849—-1914), while the youngest included
Stanisław Czajkowski (1878—1954) and Witold Wojtkiewicz (1879—-1909). The highlights of
the exhibition were large groups of paintings by Jacek Malczewski and Witold Wojtkiewicz
(sixteen each), followed by almost just as well represented Józef Pankiewicz, Olga Boznańska,
Wojciech Weiss, Władysław Ślewiński, Ferdynand Ruszczyć, Konrad Krzyżanowski and,
thanks to a happy coincidence, Stanisław Wyspiański. His works are usually absent on exhi-
53