Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (10.2015)

Tom X

Kraków 2015


DOI: 10.12797/ZP.10.2015.10.16

MAGDALENA LASKOWSKA
Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie
KATARZYNA PODNIESIŃSKA
Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie

Konkurs na ekslibris Biblioteki Numizmatycznej
Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie

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The article describes the bookplate contest of the Numismatic Library at the
National Museum in Kraków which was organized in 1918 and announced in the
journal Er/ihrA. Despite the fact that the organizers planned for the possibly broad-
est framework of the entire project, allowing the participants to create their own
preferred design, not necessarily of a strictly numismatic character, and despite
the relatively large number of the submitted works (70!), the awarded design had
never been carried out.
The National Museum in Kraków preserves 58 design works submitted to the
above-mentioned contest, with a majority of them identihed and attributed to the
specihc authors. In this group of designs, the Lviv circles are particularly well re-
presented, to name only such authors as Julia Smolkówna, Wanda Korzeniowska,
Maria Podlewska, Kamilla Rosenfeld, Anna Harland-Zajączkowska, Fryderyka
Kallay, and Jadwiga Szeptycka. Other noteworthy designs include those submitted
by Wanda Barabaszówna, Stanisław Adamczyk, and Kajetan Stefanowicz ffom
Kraków, Dora Mukułowska (Posen), Witold Giżbert-Studnicki (Siersza Wodna
near Trzebinia). Finally, out of the best four works submitted, the jury selected the
designs by Romuald Mękicki on the emblem No?? A<3777<37A<2 (K Prize) and Witold
Giżbert-Studnicki on the emblem (2"^ Prize). Ali the submitted ax /ibrA desi-
gns had been exhibited at the Cloth Hall in Kraków in 1918.
Further on, the article describes the circumstances leading to the announce-
ment of the contest and presents a brief outline of the earlier initiatives undertaken

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