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KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI'S LETTERS TO LUDWIK BERNACKI FROM 1919-1939. Edited and introduced by Maciej Matwijow (Listy Kazimierza Piekarskiego do Ludwika Bernackiego z lat 1919-1939).

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Matwijow M.

Roczniki Biblioteczne

2009

vol. 53

39-61

Kazimierz Piekarski's letters to Ludwki Bernacki (most letters from Bernacki have not survived) testify to many years of contacts and collaboration between these two historians of Polish books. The most important for Piekarski's future career were the contacts between 1919 and 1921 when, in accordance with Bernacki's proposal, he took on the recording of 15th-16th century printed books from the Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków and was employed by the Ossolineum Library in Lviv, headed by Bernacki, to catalogue its collection of early printed books. After Piekarski left the Ossolineum in 1921 and Bernacki became interested in other fields, contacts between them were mainly over Piekarski's use of the Ossolineum collections in his research. At the same time Piekarski helped Bernacki to solve various factual issues. The last stage in their collaboration (1938-1939) was associated with Piekarski's plans (eventually abandoned) to have the Ossolineum publish a monograph devoted to Polish printing houses in the 16th century. Piekarski's letters from that period bring us most details from his private life - this was a time when health problems made it extremely difficult for him to continue his work.

THE VISUAL PANORAMA OF OLD LWÓW BY JANUSZ WITWICKI IN 1936-1939 (Sprawa panoramy plastycznej dawnego Lwowa Janusza Witwickiego w latach 1936-1939)

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Matwijow M.

Muzealnictwo

2007

issue 48

214-222

The purpose of the Visual Arts Panorama of Old Lwów (Lvov, Lviv), designed and realised in about 1932 by engineer Janusz Witwicki, was to recreate on a 1:200 scale a view of historical Lwów from 1772. Since the reconstruction was to be financed by the city of Lwów, at the beginning of 1937 the Town Board convened a Committee of Experts composed of local historians, historians of art and a single architect, to assess of Witwicki's heretofore work. The experts' opinions varied greatly: Prof. Mieczyslaw Gebarowicz and Dr. Tadeusz Mankowski denied the reconstruction any scientific merits, while others, including Dr. Zbigniew Hornung and Prof. Teofil Emil Modelski, represented a diametrically different stand. This divergence to a large degree influenced the attitude of the Town Board, which in 1938-1939 decided not to finance the complete Panorama, and offered its author a subvention of 10 000 zlotys. Consequently, the Panorama remained unfinished up to the outbreak of the war in September 1939.

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KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI'S LETTERS TO LUDWIK BERNACKI FROM 1919-1939. Edited and introduced by Maciej Matwijow (Listy Kazimierza Piekarskiego do Ludwika Bernackiego z lat 1919-1939).

THE VISUAL PANORAMA OF OLD LWÓW BY JANUSZ WITWICKI IN 1936-1939 (Sprawa panoramy plastycznej dawnego Lwowa Janusza Witwickiego w latach 1936-1939)