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DOI Artikel:Załęski, Krzysztof: Stanisław Lorentz as the creator of the "Modern" National Museum
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11. Meeting with
Antoni Słonimski at the
National Museum
in Warsaw, around 1960.
From leftto right
Kazimierz Michałowski,
Janina Konarska-
Słonimska,
Antoni Słonimski,
Irena Lorentz,
and Stanisław Lorentz
Nieborów,8 and Łazienki9 not only safeguarded them from devastation
(Wilanów and Nieborów were overseen on the basis of an unofficial agreement
with their respective owners) and dispersal of their collections, but also resulted
in their overall conservation; in the case of the Łazienki complex, the
Museum’s protection resulted in a complete rebuilding of the pałace and
supplementation of its furnishings. Meanwhile, the Museum of Old Warsaw
was separated from the National Museum and re-established as the Historical
Museum of the City of Warsaw, which remained a municipal institution. The
first postwar years had a decisive significance for the development and the
shape of the National Museum in Warsaw, whose collections expanded
immeasurably after the recovery efforts, the transfer of collections from the
TZSP, and the acąuisition of collections from the nobility and abandoned
property. In many fields the Museum possessed the most significant collections
of their kind in Poland, with specialised galleries such as the Gallery of Ancient
Art, the Gallery of Medieval Art, as well as the representative Galleries of Polish
Painting and Foreign Painting, and the rich collections of the Gallery of
Decorative Art.
A Baroąue palace-park complex built in the łatę 17th century according to a design by Tyłman
van Gameren. Remodelled and enlarged in the second half of the 18th century according to a
design by Szymon Bogumił Zug for Prince Michał Radziwiłł and his wife Helen. Nearby is the
landscape park Arcadia with numerous paviłions and garden buildings.
A palace-garden complex, the summer residence of Poland’s last King, Stanisław August
Poniatowski. The Pałace on the Water was remodeled from the Baroąue baths in cłassicist style
in 1775-93 according to a design by Dominik Merlini in cooperation with other artists.
Numerous pavilions, including an orangerie with a theatre and an amphitheatre modelled on the
ancient theatre in Herculanum, with the stage mounted on a smali island in the park lakę.
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Antoni Słonimski at the
National Museum
in Warsaw, around 1960.
From leftto right
Kazimierz Michałowski,
Janina Konarska-
Słonimska,
Antoni Słonimski,
Irena Lorentz,
and Stanisław Lorentz
Nieborów,8 and Łazienki9 not only safeguarded them from devastation
(Wilanów and Nieborów were overseen on the basis of an unofficial agreement
with their respective owners) and dispersal of their collections, but also resulted
in their overall conservation; in the case of the Łazienki complex, the
Museum’s protection resulted in a complete rebuilding of the pałace and
supplementation of its furnishings. Meanwhile, the Museum of Old Warsaw
was separated from the National Museum and re-established as the Historical
Museum of the City of Warsaw, which remained a municipal institution. The
first postwar years had a decisive significance for the development and the
shape of the National Museum in Warsaw, whose collections expanded
immeasurably after the recovery efforts, the transfer of collections from the
TZSP, and the acąuisition of collections from the nobility and abandoned
property. In many fields the Museum possessed the most significant collections
of their kind in Poland, with specialised galleries such as the Gallery of Ancient
Art, the Gallery of Medieval Art, as well as the representative Galleries of Polish
Painting and Foreign Painting, and the rich collections of the Gallery of
Decorative Art.
A Baroąue palace-park complex built in the łatę 17th century according to a design by Tyłman
van Gameren. Remodelled and enlarged in the second half of the 18th century according to a
design by Szymon Bogumił Zug for Prince Michał Radziwiłł and his wife Helen. Nearby is the
landscape park Arcadia with numerous paviłions and garden buildings.
A palace-garden complex, the summer residence of Poland’s last King, Stanisław August
Poniatowski. The Pałace on the Water was remodeled from the Baroąue baths in cłassicist style
in 1775-93 according to a design by Dominik Merlini in cooperation with other artists.
Numerous pavilions, including an orangerie with a theatre and an amphitheatre modelled on the
ancient theatre in Herculanum, with the stage mounted on a smali island in the park lakę.
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