Historia i program nauczania dokumentacji konserwatorskiej malowideł ściennych na Wydziale Konserwacji Dzieł Sztuki Krakowskiej ASP w latach 1950-1989

• Authors: Kalicińska Magdalena

Title variants

EN

THE HISTORY AND PROGRAMME OF TEACHING CONSERVATION DOCUMENTATION CONCERNING MURALS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ARTWORKS AT THE CRACOW ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN THE YEARS 1950-1989

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The training of future conservators of art relics from the point of view of the conservation documentation of murals was inaugurated in Cracow during the post-war period. From 1948 students of the then School of the Conservation of Art Relics at the Higher School of Plastic Arts were taught to conduct inventory documentation and colour registers of murals. Courses were assigned to prof. dr. Jozef E. Dutkiewicz who from 1951 was the head of the Chair of the Conservation of Murals in the Department of Conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts. At that time, students under prof. J.E. Dutkiewicz carried out numerous research and work on sites in Little Poland and the Western Territories ( primarily Lower Silesia ). From 1961 to 1968 prof. Dutkiewicz continued to hold courses on „inventory" as part of the conservation of murals, but for all practical purposes from 1966 these courses were conducted by Małgorzata Schuster- Gawłowska M. A. From 1968 the Chair of the Conservation of Murals and Architectonic Sculpture included the Department of Documentation and Inventory which, from that year, following the death of prof. J.E. Dutkiewicz, was headed by prof. Władysław Zalewski. Practical work concerning the discovery, uncovering and conservation of murals is continued up to this day. In 1972 the course in documentation of murals began with second year students. This topic was presented, together with dr. Jerzy Gadomski, by Magdalena Kalicińska, who, from the academic year 1 9 7 3 /1 974 conducted courses independently. Cooperation with the Mining and Metallurgical Academy in Cracow, initiated in 1973, expanded the course on the conversation documentation of murals, and architectonic sculpture, by the introduction of photogrammetry. Lectures and seminars were conducted for students of the second, third and fourth years by the staff from the Institute of Photogrammetry at the Department of Mining and Industrial Geodesy of the Cracow Academy - dr. Jozef Jachimski, dr. Adam Boroń and dr. Władysław Mierzwa. In 1973, owing to the efforts of the Warsaw-based Centre for the Documentation of Monuments , an international conference was held in Gdańsk-Oliwa dealing with the conservation documentation of mobile monuments. The conference drew attention i.a. to the need for a rapid preparation of a scheme-pattern for the execution of appriopriate documentation which would be uniform and compulsory throughout the country. Work on the „Scheme" was carried out up to December 1974 by Krystyna Sommer, M.A. and then by the Department of the conservation of Artworks at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. The coordination of efforts connected with the „Scheme" was entrusted to Magdalena Kalicińska M.A. On 14 April 1976 the Centre for the Documentation of Monuments recognized the „Scheme" as binding for the entire country, and from then on it is employed by all institutions which conduct conservation work as well as conservators working on their own. It is also obligatory in all academic centres which train conservators of monuments. In the academic year 1981 /1 982 organizational and programme changes were introduced into the training of students - photogrametry became a separate subject, and inventories of murals and architectonic sculpture became part of the first year curriculum. The Archive of the Department of the Conservation of Artworks possesses a very extensive and varied collection of conservation documentation; the organization of the archive lasted for many years and the students preserved many of the objects for future generations. Part of the drawn, colour and photogrammetric documents as well as copies of murals executed i.a. in the Workshop of the Inventory of Murals and Architectonic Sculpture was presented in September 1987 at an exhibition entitled: Nostra Documentaria in Salo ( Lombardy ). This display met with great interest, including that of Italian conservators. In recent years, the Workshop, still headed by M. Kalicińska, gained new didactic and scientific employees. The Cracow Department is up to this day the only centre which trains students in the documentation of murals by organizing a separate course. This fact testifies to the importance which was always attached to the role and significence of documentation in work connected with the conservation of art monuments.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1991
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 205-208

Dates

published

1991

Contributors

author

Kalicińska Magdalena

• Wydział Konserwacji Dzieł Sztuki ASP - Kraków

References

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• W . Śl e s i ń s k i , Rys historyczny metod badawczych stosowanych w identyfikacji i diagnostyce dzieł sztuki. Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Sztuk Pięknych, z.11, Krakow 1980 s. 8.

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ISSN

0029-8247