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DOI article:Howorus-Czajka, Magdalena: Mała forma - wielka wizja: medale Wiktora Tołkina
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.37080#0287
MEDALE WIKTORA TOŁKINA
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14. Awers medalu Gdańskie Przedsiębiorstwo Budownictwa Przemysłowego, 1975,
W. Tołkin, śr. 70, tombak patyn., 100 szt., źródło ilustracji - Mennica Państwo-
wa.
15. Rewers medalu Politechnika Gdańska - Universitas Technologica Gedanensis
(wersja II), 1973, W. Tołkin, śr. 70, tombak patyn., 100 szt., źródło ilustracji -
Mennica Państwowa.
16. Awers medalu Izba Bawełny w Gdyni, 1977, W. Tołkin, śr. 70, tombak patyn.,
1000 szt., źródło ilustracji - Mennica Państwowa.
A SMALL FORM - THE BIG VISION
MEDALS BY WIKTOR TOŁKIN
S u m m a r y
The article concerns the medals by Wiktor Tołkin, a sculptor known especially as the
author of huge monuments commemorating the victims of the World War II, less known as
a medallic artist. His first medallions the artist engraved during the War as a prisoner of
Auschwitz-Birkenau - a Nazi concentration camp. Within 40 years the artist became the author
of 32 medals of different types: anniversary medals, commemorating medals, and medals of
honour. There are a few characteristic subject matters appearing on the medals’ surfaces: a city
view, a portrait, a human figurę, graphic symbols, the Polish emblem... Medals by Wiktor
Tołkin are ąuite far from avant-garde in form, however the artist combines synthesis and
decorative forms at the same time. Sometimes he contrasts these both features in one medal:
one on the averse and the other one on the reverse. The art of medals is an unappreciated
domain by the art historians although it reąuires an enormous discipline and clarity of compo-
sition.
Słowa kluczowe: Wiktor Tołkin, medale.
Key words: Wiktor Tołkin, the medals.
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14. Awers medalu Gdańskie Przedsiębiorstwo Budownictwa Przemysłowego, 1975,
W. Tołkin, śr. 70, tombak patyn., 100 szt., źródło ilustracji - Mennica Państwo-
wa.
15. Rewers medalu Politechnika Gdańska - Universitas Technologica Gedanensis
(wersja II), 1973, W. Tołkin, śr. 70, tombak patyn., 100 szt., źródło ilustracji -
Mennica Państwowa.
16. Awers medalu Izba Bawełny w Gdyni, 1977, W. Tołkin, śr. 70, tombak patyn.,
1000 szt., źródło ilustracji - Mennica Państwowa.
A SMALL FORM - THE BIG VISION
MEDALS BY WIKTOR TOŁKIN
S u m m a r y
The article concerns the medals by Wiktor Tołkin, a sculptor known especially as the
author of huge monuments commemorating the victims of the World War II, less known as
a medallic artist. His first medallions the artist engraved during the War as a prisoner of
Auschwitz-Birkenau - a Nazi concentration camp. Within 40 years the artist became the author
of 32 medals of different types: anniversary medals, commemorating medals, and medals of
honour. There are a few characteristic subject matters appearing on the medals’ surfaces: a city
view, a portrait, a human figurę, graphic symbols, the Polish emblem... Medals by Wiktor
Tołkin are ąuite far from avant-garde in form, however the artist combines synthesis and
decorative forms at the same time. Sometimes he contrasts these both features in one medal:
one on the averse and the other one on the reverse. The art of medals is an unappreciated
domain by the art historians although it reąuires an enormous discipline and clarity of compo-
sition.
Słowa kluczowe: Wiktor Tołkin, medale.
Key words: Wiktor Tołkin, the medals.