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Kuczman, Kazimierz: The Lanckoroński collection in the Wawel Royal Castle
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1. Professor Karolina Lanckorońska
distinction, Count Karol Lanckororiski (1848—
1933)2. The owner of a vast landed property in
central Poland (Wodzisław), eastern Galicia (Roz-
dół, Komarno, Jagielnica), and Styria (Frauenwald),
a lawyer by profession, actively engaged in political
life, he was first of all a lover of art, patron of artists,
art collector, museologist, as well as theorist and
practician in the field of conservation. Born in
Vienna, in the years 1892—1894 he built there,
at Jacąuingasse no. 18, a neo-Baroque pałace in
which he accumulated the fruits of his passion for
collecting3. On the other hand, his family summer
pałace at Rozdół, extended in the late 19th century,
2 The bibliography concerning the Lanckoroński family is
vast today. Only selected titles are cited in the present paper.
Among recent biographical publications we should mention:
R. Taborski, Karol Lanckoroński [in:] Polski słownik bio-
graficzny, XVI, 1971, pp. 442 — 443; J. A. Ostrowski, Karol
Lanckoroński (1848 —1933) — Archaologe, Kunsthistoriker und
Sammler [in:] Zur Geschichte der klassischen Archaologie,
Jena —Kraków, bearb. v. E. Kluve, J. Śliwa, Jena 1985
(Wissenschaftliche Beitrage der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat
Jena), pp. 100 — 120; Idem, Karol Lanckoroński (1848 — 1933)
— Polish Connoisseur and Friend of Art [in:] Studies in Ancient
Art and Civilisation, VI, Cracow 1993 (Zeszyty Naukowe UJ
1109. Prace Archeologiczne 56. Studia z Archeologii Śródziem-
housed most of the works of art that he had
inherited from his great-grandfather, Kazimierz
Rzewuski, who in 1815 bought part of the collection
once belonging to the last king of Poland,
Karol Lanckoroński the traveller (he madę, inter
alia, a journey round the world) felt most at ease in
the sphere of Mediterranean culture, devoting his
energy, intellect, and money to both accumulating
its heritage and organizing scientific expeditions to
the Near East with the aim of learning morę about
its roots. When setting out on a great research
expedition to Pamphylia and Pisidia in 18844, he
invited, among others, the outstanding archaeol-
ogists Georg Niemann and Eugen Peterson, as well
as Marian Sokołowski, an art historian at the Jagieł-
lonian University, and the Cracow painter Jacek
Malczewski, to take part. Lanckororiski was of great
service to the restoration of the early Christian
cathedral at Aąuileia in North Italy5. A friend of
Max Dvorak, he shared his views on the theory of
conservation, while in practice he distinguished
himself above all as organizer of conservation
services in the Austrian part of the Hapsburg
monarchy. The year 1918 saw the publication in
Vienna of a book in honour of Karol Lanckoroński,
containing treatises on his collection, written by
eminent scholars, including Max Dvorak and Karl
M. Swoboda6. Lanckororiski presented his own
views on modern museums in a booklet entitled
Kunstler und Kunsthistoriker (1924).
A hereditary member of the Austrian Senate,
Grand Steward of the imperial court, and a Knight
of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Lanckoroński
was at the same time a great Polish patriot, at heart
always a representative of the nation whose large
proportion lived until 1918 under Hapsburg rule.
He manifested his attitude chiefly in his
participation in the activities of the Polish Group
within the Austrian parliament, by taking part in
the restoration of Cracow Cathedral, and in his
strenuous efforts to free the castle of the kings of
nomorskiej, 17), pp. 53 — 79; J. Mi ziółek, The Lanckoroński
Collection in Poland [the paper submitted to the publisher of the
periodical Antichita Viva 1995, no. 3]. I wish to thank Dr. Jerzy
Miziołek for allowing me to read his text.
3 See Palais Lanckoroński Jacąuingasse 18, Wien 1903.
4 Die Stadte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens, I —II, hrsg. v. K.
Lanckoroński, unter Mitwirkung v. G. Niemann
u. E. Pet er sen, Wien 1890—1892.
5 Der Dom von Aąuileia. Sein Bau und seine Geschichte, hrsg.
v. K. Lanckoroński, unter Mitwirkung v. G. Niemann
u. H. Swoboda, Wien 1906.
6 Ausgewahlte Kunstwerke der Sammlung Lanckoroński, Wien
1918.
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distinction, Count Karol Lanckororiski (1848—
1933)2. The owner of a vast landed property in
central Poland (Wodzisław), eastern Galicia (Roz-
dół, Komarno, Jagielnica), and Styria (Frauenwald),
a lawyer by profession, actively engaged in political
life, he was first of all a lover of art, patron of artists,
art collector, museologist, as well as theorist and
practician in the field of conservation. Born in
Vienna, in the years 1892—1894 he built there,
at Jacąuingasse no. 18, a neo-Baroque pałace in
which he accumulated the fruits of his passion for
collecting3. On the other hand, his family summer
pałace at Rozdół, extended in the late 19th century,
2 The bibliography concerning the Lanckoroński family is
vast today. Only selected titles are cited in the present paper.
Among recent biographical publications we should mention:
R. Taborski, Karol Lanckoroński [in:] Polski słownik bio-
graficzny, XVI, 1971, pp. 442 — 443; J. A. Ostrowski, Karol
Lanckoroński (1848 —1933) — Archaologe, Kunsthistoriker und
Sammler [in:] Zur Geschichte der klassischen Archaologie,
Jena —Kraków, bearb. v. E. Kluve, J. Śliwa, Jena 1985
(Wissenschaftliche Beitrage der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat
Jena), pp. 100 — 120; Idem, Karol Lanckoroński (1848 — 1933)
— Polish Connoisseur and Friend of Art [in:] Studies in Ancient
Art and Civilisation, VI, Cracow 1993 (Zeszyty Naukowe UJ
1109. Prace Archeologiczne 56. Studia z Archeologii Śródziem-
housed most of the works of art that he had
inherited from his great-grandfather, Kazimierz
Rzewuski, who in 1815 bought part of the collection
once belonging to the last king of Poland,
Karol Lanckoroński the traveller (he madę, inter
alia, a journey round the world) felt most at ease in
the sphere of Mediterranean culture, devoting his
energy, intellect, and money to both accumulating
its heritage and organizing scientific expeditions to
the Near East with the aim of learning morę about
its roots. When setting out on a great research
expedition to Pamphylia and Pisidia in 18844, he
invited, among others, the outstanding archaeol-
ogists Georg Niemann and Eugen Peterson, as well
as Marian Sokołowski, an art historian at the Jagieł-
lonian University, and the Cracow painter Jacek
Malczewski, to take part. Lanckororiski was of great
service to the restoration of the early Christian
cathedral at Aąuileia in North Italy5. A friend of
Max Dvorak, he shared his views on the theory of
conservation, while in practice he distinguished
himself above all as organizer of conservation
services in the Austrian part of the Hapsburg
monarchy. The year 1918 saw the publication in
Vienna of a book in honour of Karol Lanckoroński,
containing treatises on his collection, written by
eminent scholars, including Max Dvorak and Karl
M. Swoboda6. Lanckororiski presented his own
views on modern museums in a booklet entitled
Kunstler und Kunsthistoriker (1924).
A hereditary member of the Austrian Senate,
Grand Steward of the imperial court, and a Knight
of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Lanckoroński
was at the same time a great Polish patriot, at heart
always a representative of the nation whose large
proportion lived until 1918 under Hapsburg rule.
He manifested his attitude chiefly in his
participation in the activities of the Polish Group
within the Austrian parliament, by taking part in
the restoration of Cracow Cathedral, and in his
strenuous efforts to free the castle of the kings of
nomorskiej, 17), pp. 53 — 79; J. Mi ziółek, The Lanckoroński
Collection in Poland [the paper submitted to the publisher of the
periodical Antichita Viva 1995, no. 3]. I wish to thank Dr. Jerzy
Miziołek for allowing me to read his text.
3 See Palais Lanckoroński Jacąuingasse 18, Wien 1903.
4 Die Stadte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens, I —II, hrsg. v. K.
Lanckoroński, unter Mitwirkung v. G. Niemann
u. E. Pet er sen, Wien 1890—1892.
5 Der Dom von Aąuileia. Sein Bau und seine Geschichte, hrsg.
v. K. Lanckoroński, unter Mitwirkung v. G. Niemann
u. H. Swoboda, Wien 1906.
6 Ausgewahlte Kunstwerke der Sammlung Lanckoroński, Wien
1918.
136