Instytut Historii Sztuki <Danzig> [Hrsg.]; Zakład Historii Sztuki <Danzig> [Hrsg.]: Porta Aurea: Rocznik Instytutu Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego (13.2014)

Fig. 1. Andreas Schluter (attributed),
Allegory of Astronomy (c. 1705-1711),
pen and ink, Muzeum Narodowe,
Gdańsk


Fig. 2. Andreas Schluter (attributed),
Allegory of Time (c. 1705-1711), pen
and ink, Muzeum Narodowe,
Gdańsk

of paintings, prints, and drawings.4 Kabruris collection was bequeathed to the
Danzig authorities upon his death in 1814, housed in the years thereafter
in several temporary locations, and ultimately transferred to the new Munici-
pal Museum (now called the Muzeum Narodowe) in 1872.5 From among the
four drawings attributed to Schluter in the Kabrun-collection catalogue, only
these two have survived the turmoils and tragedies of World War II including
confiscation by the Soviet-army and revindication to Poland in 1956; while
the other “...Zwei Blatter Frontispice. Feder...” listed in the catalogue unfor-
tunately did not.6 The fact that these Gdańsk drawings may belong to Andreas

4 For Kabrun and his collection, see: Block, von Duisburg, Catalog..., p. 169; Z.L. Pszczółka,
“Kabrun, Jakub,” [in:] Słownik biograficzny Pomorza Nadwiślańskiego, vol. 2, St. Gierszewski
(ed.), Gdańsk 1994, p. 329-330; Talbierska, Zabuska, Straty Wojenne..., p. 11-50.
5 Talbierska, Zabuska, Straty Wojenne..., p. 43-46.
6 The two now-lost drawings were listed as “... no. 8153 and 8154...” in: Block, von
Duisburg, Catalog..., p. 169. In this connection, we can mention that Schluter also provided
a design for a printed commemorative sheet, see: P. Walie, Eine Schlutersche Zeichnung fur
ein Gedenkblatt auf Moritz Damian Marschall v. Bieberstein, “Mitteilungen des Vereins fur die
Geschichte Berlins” 1896, Bd. 13, p. 58-60.

Some Notes on
Two Allegorical
Drawings
Attributed...

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