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employed by municipal or state planning and design studios. Sketches which are not signed
include works by the pupils of Professor Pniewski.
Research of the Collection
Research of the architectural drawings in the then Department of Polish Graphic Arts was
initiated by Stanisław Lorentz, who conducted a doctoral seminar on the subject in the
1960s and 1970S.70 The collection was also used in numerous publications.71 Apart from
Andrzej Rottermund, museum employees involved in architectural drawings included
Marek Kwiatkowski and Krzysztof Załęski, who headed the Department of Polish Drawings
between 1974 and 2004. Between 1987 and 1990 scholarly supervision of the architec-
tural drawings was exercised by Robert Bogdański. It was then that a number of drawings
was transferred to the Collection of Polish Drawings from the Department of Scholarly
Documentation (currently known as the Iconographie and Photographic Collection). They
were ordered in terms of topography and, for the most part, supplemented with scholarly
descriptions. Other researchers involved in the drawings included Andrzej Dzięciołowski
and Anna Rudzińska (identification of some of the drawings, description, provenance find-
ings recorded on identification cards, in inventory books and exhibition catalogues). Tasks
for the coming years include completing the list of entries in the electronic inventory72 and
publishing the study on the Internet.73 Part of the designs created c. 1900, including the lega-
cy of Jarosław Wojciechowski, has been qualified to the European Partage Plus programme,
which focuses on Art Nouveau and artistic activity c. 1900. The work will conclude in an
Internet publication of the examined drawings.
The collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, albeit not fully representative, contains
examples of architecture ranging from late Baroque to late Modernism. Many of the works
are of high artistic value, which places the collection among the most important sets of archi-
tectural drawings in Polish museums, libraries and archives.

70 The scope of works, names of researchers and bibliography until 1970 are provided in A. Rottermund,
Katalog tysunków architektonicznych..., op. cit., pp. 15-6. For more information on the subject, see id., “Stanisław
Lorentz jako badacz sztuki polskiej doby Oświecenia,” in Przeszłość przyszłości..., op. cit., pp. 193-211.
71 The most important include: Marek Kwiatkowski, Szymon Bogumił Zug - architekt polskiego Oświecenia
(Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1971); Tadeusz Stefan Jaroszewski, Architektura doby Oświecenia
w Polsce: nurty i odmiany (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo, 1971). Studia z Historii
Sztuki, Władysława Jaworska and Jerzy Pietrusiński, eds, vol. 13; Tadeusz Stefan Jaroszewski, Andrzej Rottermund,
Jakub Hempel, Fryderyk Albert Lessel, Hemyklttar, Wilhelm Hemyk Minter-architekci polskiego klasycyzmu (Warsaw:
Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1974); Stanisław Lorentz, Efraim Szreger - architekt polski XVIII wieku (Warsaw:
Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1986); Andrzej Rottermund, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand a polska architektura
i. połowy XIX wieku (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich-Wydawnictwo, 1990). Studia z Historii Sztuki,
Wiesław Juszczak et al., eds, vol. 45.
72 The work is carried out in the MONA system designed by Halina Słomka (S-Soft Biuro Usług
Informatycznych), which was developed taking into account content-based remarks of NMW employees.
73 The Digital National Museum in Warsaw (www.cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl) is an element of the dMuseion
programme.