DOI Heft:
Chronicle 1996-1997
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18946#0138
16. Daniel Friedriech
von Mylius,
silver box,
early 18lh century
(acquired in 1996)
Four antique bronze Sumerian coins from the Bosphorus, purchased in 1997,
inv. no. NPO 39833-39836. Sumerian coins, like all coins originating from
the northern shore of the Black Sea, are among the most valuable items in the
Museum’s numismatic collection.
The Iconographie and Photographic Collections:
Jan Kosidowski (1922-1992), a collection of negatives from 1953-1989, the
gift of Barbara Jankowska-Kosidowska. Jan Kosidowski was a well-known
photo-reporter. Following his studies at the New York Photographic Institute
from 1946-1951 where he specialized in press photography, he worked from
1951 for the weekly Swiat\ thanks to Kosidowski, Wladyslaw Slawny,
Konstanty Jarochowski, and Wieslaw Prazuch, the periodical became one of
the most important in the history of Polish press photogrphy.
A photograph of a painting by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Portrait of Julia
Uninska-Borkowska, VII 1927, type A+B, gift of Edward and Stefan
Borkowski, 1997, inv. no. DI 98787. A photograph of a previously unknown,
now lost, painting by Witkacy, a writer, painter, and philosopher, who
documented his works immediately after executing them. This kind of
photograph is rare, particularly in private collections.
Edward Augustynowicz, Flenryk Podçbski, Jan Bulhak, Adam Tankiewicz,
Henryk Hermanowicz, 84 photographs of architecture in Wolyn, made to
order by the Department of Tourism and the Ministry of Public Works in the
1920s, purchased in 1997, inv. no. DI 98475-98559. The excellent technical
quality of these photographs shows details churches and their interiors, castles,
136
von Mylius,
silver box,
early 18lh century
(acquired in 1996)
Four antique bronze Sumerian coins from the Bosphorus, purchased in 1997,
inv. no. NPO 39833-39836. Sumerian coins, like all coins originating from
the northern shore of the Black Sea, are among the most valuable items in the
Museum’s numismatic collection.
The Iconographie and Photographic Collections:
Jan Kosidowski (1922-1992), a collection of negatives from 1953-1989, the
gift of Barbara Jankowska-Kosidowska. Jan Kosidowski was a well-known
photo-reporter. Following his studies at the New York Photographic Institute
from 1946-1951 where he specialized in press photography, he worked from
1951 for the weekly Swiat\ thanks to Kosidowski, Wladyslaw Slawny,
Konstanty Jarochowski, and Wieslaw Prazuch, the periodical became one of
the most important in the history of Polish press photogrphy.
A photograph of a painting by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Portrait of Julia
Uninska-Borkowska, VII 1927, type A+B, gift of Edward and Stefan
Borkowski, 1997, inv. no. DI 98787. A photograph of a previously unknown,
now lost, painting by Witkacy, a writer, painter, and philosopher, who
documented his works immediately after executing them. This kind of
photograph is rare, particularly in private collections.
Edward Augustynowicz, Flenryk Podçbski, Jan Bulhak, Adam Tankiewicz,
Henryk Hermanowicz, 84 photographs of architecture in Wolyn, made to
order by the Department of Tourism and the Ministry of Public Works in the
1920s, purchased in 1997, inv. no. DI 98475-98559. The excellent technical
quality of these photographs shows details churches and their interiors, castles,
136