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GDANSK
this purpose. The Maritime Museum had been organized in the
years 1960—61 as a section oi the Fomeranian Museum. The com-
pletion oi the reconstruction oi the Abbots' Palace at Oliwa in 1965,
made it posslble to move there the Ethnographic Department which
had been started in 1950. The art departments alone will remain
in the post-Eranciscan buiiding.
The Pomeranian Museum began its post-war work as a municipal
museum. Taken over in 1947 by the Ministry oi Culture and Art,
it became a District Museum in 1950. From 1957, the Pomeranian
Museum has been subordinated to the Praesidium oi the Voivodship
People's Counoii in Gdansk. In October 1972 it totok the name of
Nationa! Museum.
The collections of the Pomeranian Museum are now made
up of the following departments:
I. Polish Art Gallery
The Gallery is partly based on paintings and sculptures
from the Museum's pre-war collection, chiefly, however, on
works of art assembled in the past twenty years; some
70 paintings by Polish artists from the second half of the
19th century were acquired by the Pomeranian Museum as
a permanent loan from the National Museum in Warsaw.
Mediaeval Art. Painted panels and wooden and stone
sculptures of the period from the second half of the 14th
century to about 1530, executed in Gdansk workshops and
in the workshops of other centres in Gdansk Pomerania.
Especially noteworthy are: "Christ Crucified" from Staro-
gard — the earliest specimen of Gothic sculpture in Pome-
rania; sculptures from the period cycle of the "Madonnas on
Lions" and "Beautifui Madonnas" ("Pieta" from the Church
of Our Lady, from the beginning of the 15th century); altar
sets from the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th
centuries (from St. Elisabeth's — c. 1400, St. Jadwiga's —
c. 1420, St. Dorothea's — with English alabaster reliefs from
the first quarter of the 15th century); St. George from the
Artus Court, executed by H. Brandt about 1485. Also interest-
ing are ornamented elements of the earliest stone doorsills
of Gdansk houses from c. 1475.
Modern Art. The art of Gdansk from the 16th—18th
centuries is weli represented by the works of artists active
in Gdansk: sculptors — Master Pawet ("The Adoration of
the Magi" from c. 1530), A. Karffycz ("St. Reynold" from
c. 1536), and painters: L. Lauenstein ("Lot and His Daught-
ers" from 1534), M. Schoninck ("The Siege of Malbork" from
1536), A. Moller ("Tribute Money" from 1601, "The Acts of
Mercy" from 1607), J. Krieg ("View of Gdansk" from the
beginning of the 17th century), D. Schultz ("Portrait of Con-
stance Schumann", "Pictures of Animals"), A. Stech (por-
traits), D. Chodowiecki ("Portrait of Anna Czapska"), and
others. The collection of paintings from the 19th and the
turn of the 19th—20th centuries, includes works by: P. Mi-
chalowski ("Entry Into the Stable", "Portrait of Young Man
Wearing a Ruff", and others), J. Brandt, O. Boznanska,
J. Cheimonski, W. Gerson, A. Gierymski, A. Kotsis, J. Mal-
czewski, J. Matejko, J. Pankiewicz, J. Stanisiawski, W. Sle-
winski, L. Wyczoikowski and S. Wyspianski.
Contemporary Art. The coilection, started in 1948,
and systematically supplemented, now contains works by
nearly all the more distinguished artists active on the Coast
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this purpose. The Maritime Museum had been organized in the
years 1960—61 as a section oi the Fomeranian Museum. The com-
pletion oi the reconstruction oi the Abbots' Palace at Oliwa in 1965,
made it posslble to move there the Ethnographic Department which
had been started in 1950. The art departments alone will remain
in the post-Eranciscan buiiding.
The Pomeranian Museum began its post-war work as a municipal
museum. Taken over in 1947 by the Ministry oi Culture and Art,
it became a District Museum in 1950. From 1957, the Pomeranian
Museum has been subordinated to the Praesidium oi the Voivodship
People's Counoii in Gdansk. In October 1972 it totok the name of
Nationa! Museum.
The collections of the Pomeranian Museum are now made
up of the following departments:
I. Polish Art Gallery
The Gallery is partly based on paintings and sculptures
from the Museum's pre-war collection, chiefly, however, on
works of art assembled in the past twenty years; some
70 paintings by Polish artists from the second half of the
19th century were acquired by the Pomeranian Museum as
a permanent loan from the National Museum in Warsaw.
Mediaeval Art. Painted panels and wooden and stone
sculptures of the period from the second half of the 14th
century to about 1530, executed in Gdansk workshops and
in the workshops of other centres in Gdansk Pomerania.
Especially noteworthy are: "Christ Crucified" from Staro-
gard — the earliest specimen of Gothic sculpture in Pome-
rania; sculptures from the period cycle of the "Madonnas on
Lions" and "Beautifui Madonnas" ("Pieta" from the Church
of Our Lady, from the beginning of the 15th century); altar
sets from the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th
centuries (from St. Elisabeth's — c. 1400, St. Jadwiga's —
c. 1420, St. Dorothea's — with English alabaster reliefs from
the first quarter of the 15th century); St. George from the
Artus Court, executed by H. Brandt about 1485. Also interest-
ing are ornamented elements of the earliest stone doorsills
of Gdansk houses from c. 1475.
Modern Art. The art of Gdansk from the 16th—18th
centuries is weli represented by the works of artists active
in Gdansk: sculptors — Master Pawet ("The Adoration of
the Magi" from c. 1530), A. Karffycz ("St. Reynold" from
c. 1536), and painters: L. Lauenstein ("Lot and His Daught-
ers" from 1534), M. Schoninck ("The Siege of Malbork" from
1536), A. Moller ("Tribute Money" from 1601, "The Acts of
Mercy" from 1607), J. Krieg ("View of Gdansk" from the
beginning of the 17th century), D. Schultz ("Portrait of Con-
stance Schumann", "Pictures of Animals"), A. Stech (por-
traits), D. Chodowiecki ("Portrait of Anna Czapska"), and
others. The collection of paintings from the 19th and the
turn of the 19th—20th centuries, includes works by: P. Mi-
chalowski ("Entry Into the Stable", "Portrait of Young Man
Wearing a Ruff", and others), J. Brandt, O. Boznanska,
J. Cheimonski, W. Gerson, A. Gierymski, A. Kotsis, J. Mal-
czewski, J. Matejko, J. Pankiewicz, J. Stanisiawski, W. Sle-
winski, L. Wyczoikowski and S. Wyspianski.
Contemporary Art. The coilection, started in 1948,
and systematically supplemented, now contains works by
nearly all the more distinguished artists active on the Coast
118