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• Authors: Sztarbałło Kazimierz

Title variants

EN

The Unusual History of Paintings by Michael Willmann from the Lubiąż Collection

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The author describes the circumstances of the origin and later history of canvases by Michael Willmann, an outstanding Baroque painter from Silesia. In 16 5 6 -1 7 0 2 , Willmann executed a series of several score religious paintings, commissioned by the Cistercian abbots in Lubiąż. Subsequently, they comprised part of the outfitting of the local church. The rank of the collection was n o t impaired either by the secularisation of monastic property in 1810, the adaptation of the abbey for the purposes of a field hospital for Russian soldiers during the Napoleonic campaign, nor the opening of a hospital for mentally ill Prussian aristocrats. The beginning of the end of the Lubiąż collection dates back to 1936, when the abbey was converted into an armament factory. In 1940, the church was closed in connection with the p ro duction of aeroplane engines and secret preparations for the production of the VI and V2 missiles. When in 1943 armament enterprises from Berlin were evacuated to Lubiąż, Gunter Grundman, the then conservator of Wrocław, decided to rid the church of its outfitting, including about 40 paintings by Willmann. After the war, the canvases were stored in Szklarska Poręba, administered by Soviet military authorities. From here, at the end of 1945, 30 paintings and 40 period frames were moved to a central storehouse in Paulinum Castle on Krzyżowa Mt. in the region of Jelenia Gora, never to return to Lubiąż. In 1952, an agreement signed between the Ministry of Culture and Art and the Warsaw Metropolitan Curia enabled 30 paintings and 22 frames to be transferred to Warsaw. The remaining objects, after much turmoil, found themselves in the National Museum in Wrocław and Warsaw. The article contains an extremely valuable catalogue of paintings by Michael Willmann from the monastic church in Lubiąż, and gives the title of a given canvas, a brief technical description, and information about its current whereabouts.

Keywords

PL

Michael Willmann; cystersi; opactwo w Lubiążu

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 2000
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 32-38

Dates

published

2000

Contributors

author

Sztarbałło Kazimierz

References

• W. Kieszkowski, Składnica Muzealna Paulinum..., (w.) Pamiętnik Związku H istoryków Sztuki i Kultury, 1.1, Warszawa 1948, s. 135-158.

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247