Secrets of the Past
Fig. 112. Interior of Jozef Unger's art gallery
on ulica Niecata during the exhibition of the
works of Maurycy Gottlieb, 1879
Fig. 113. Exhibition of Jan Matejko's 'Battle of
Grunwald" and 'Prussian Flomage" in the pa-
vilion on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie, draw-
ing, 1882
lishment of relations and keeping in touch with similar institutions (Wierciriska 1961,
pp. 74—75). One of the founders of the Zach^ta was the well-known painter Wojciech
Gerson; he was supported by people like Rafal Hadziewicz and January Suchodolski,
as well as Ignacy Kraszewski and Edward Rastawiecki, individuals regarded as real au-
thorities. The first meeting of the new Society was convened on 13th December 1860 in
the aula of the Medical and Surgical Academy (in today’s Staszic House).
The new institution’s first headquarters were in the no longer extant Mokronow-
ski Mansion on the corner of the Krolewska and the Krakowskie Przedmiescie; its
second in the Hotel Gerlach (on the site of today’s Hotel Europejski), from 1862 to
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Fig. 112. Interior of Jozef Unger's art gallery
on ulica Niecata during the exhibition of the
works of Maurycy Gottlieb, 1879
Fig. 113. Exhibition of Jan Matejko's 'Battle of
Grunwald" and 'Prussian Flomage" in the pa-
vilion on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie, draw-
ing, 1882
lishment of relations and keeping in touch with similar institutions (Wierciriska 1961,
pp. 74—75). One of the founders of the Zach^ta was the well-known painter Wojciech
Gerson; he was supported by people like Rafal Hadziewicz and January Suchodolski,
as well as Ignacy Kraszewski and Edward Rastawiecki, individuals regarded as real au-
thorities. The first meeting of the new Society was convened on 13th December 1860 in
the aula of the Medical and Surgical Academy (in today’s Staszic House).
The new institution’s first headquarters were in the no longer extant Mokronow-
ski Mansion on the corner of the Krolewska and the Krakowskie Przedmiescie; its
second in the Hotel Gerlach (on the site of today’s Hotel Europejski), from 1862 to
136