'LWÓW, THE OPEN CITY'. AN EXHIBITION AT THE JACEK MALCZEWSKI MUSEUM IN RADOM ('Lwów Miasto Otwarte' - wystawa w Muzeum im. Jacka Malczewskiego w Radomiu)

• Authors: Madejski Jerzy
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

From November 2006 to April 2007 the showrooms of the Jacek Malczewski Museum displayed an exhibition entitled 'Lwów, the Open City', marking the 750th anniversary of the titular town. The initiator and organiser of the event was Janusz Pulnar, the then Museum director (today retired). The exposition was previously presented at the Lviv Art Gallery. The exhibits on show included portraits of town councilors and mayors, examples of the crafts, and objects of Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Armenian, and Jewish religious cults, i. e. of those communities which created Lwów (Lvov, today: Lviv) in the past. For long, the town had been celebrated for its multicultural character and witnessed the harmonious coexistence of representatives of numerous nations and religions. Unique exhibits included portraits of local rabbis, discovered in the recesses of various Lviv museums. The Radom exhibition also featured fragments of a large model of Lvov, constructed by Janusz Witwicki during the inter-war period and continued during the occupation until 1946; prior to his departure for Poland Witwicki was murdered. The exhibition offered a unique opportunity to see an enormous panorama of the town by Stanislaw Jankowski and Zygmunt Rozwadowski. The conservation of the canvas, conducted in Radom for half a year, restored its former brilliance. The presented exhibits came from the Lviv Art Gallery and local museums: Historical, National, and the History of Religion. The show was held under the patronage of Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and Adam Struzik, marshal of the Self-government of the Voivodeship of Mazovia, The authors of the exhibition were Janusz Pulnar and Boris Woznitski, director of the Lviv Art Gallery. The project was consulted by Jerzy Petrus from the Royal Castle on Wawel Hill in Cracow. Bohdan Czajkowski provided scientific counsel. The commissars were Adam Zieleziński and Szczepan Kowalik, and on the Ukrainian side: Oksana Chervoniuk, representing the Lviv Art Gallery, Igor Kozhan from the National Museum in Lviv, Olga Moroz from the Lviv Historical Museum, and Ruslana Bubriak from the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion. The Ukrainian coordinator was Taras Rutko. Photographs of contemporary Lviv and in the catalogue were taken by Jerzy Madejski, art photographer and author of this article.

Keywords

EN

LVIV ART GALERY; LWÓW THE OPEN CITY; MUSEUM (JACEK MALCZEWSKI) IN RADOM

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Krajowy Ośrodek Badań i Dokumentacji Zabytków
• Journal: Muzealnictwo
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 48
• Pages: 202-213
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Madejski Jerzy

• Jerzy Madejski, no data

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA088116