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MARIAN MINICH (1898‒1965)

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Kurc-Maj P.

Muzealnictwo

2018

vol. 59

163-174

Marian Minich was born on the 21st December 1898 in Baligród near Lesko, died on the 6th of July 1965 in Łódź. For thirty years, excluding the World War II period, he was a director of the Art Museum in Łódź. In 1929, he graduated from the John Casimir University in Lviv, history of art faculty. He worked there from 1928, first as an assistant of Professor Władysław Kozicki, then of Professor Władysław Podlacha. In 1932, he defended his doctoral thesis on the oeuvre of Andrzej Grabowski (published in 1957). He was granted a university award while still a student for his study The Concept of Art by Wölfflin, whose methodology influenced future exhibition concepts of Marian Minich. From the late 1920s, he was writing as an art critic for Lviv newspapers. In 1935, he assumed the position of the director of the Art Museum in Łódź (at the time: the J. and K. Bartoszewicz Museum of History and Art). Among his major achievements was not only a remarkable expansion of museum collection, but also a transformation of the museum into an institution devoted exclusively to art, with a significant representation of contemporary art. In the uneasy post-war years, he managed to sustain this direction, both before and after the tightening of cultural policies in the socialist realism era. In 1948, together with the first post-war permanent exhibition, the Art Museum in Łódź opened thanks to him the “Neoplastic Room” by Władysław Strzemiński. Marian Minich was also a persistent defender of the avant-garde, and strived to make it an integral part of conceptual programme for any art museum. From the years 1946/1947 to 1951/1952, he taught art history at the University of Łódź. His professional experience as a museum director has been described by him in a book Szalona galeria (published in 1963); his article O nową organizację muzeów sztuki (1966) he devoted to museum issues.

WHAT REMAINS AFTER THE JUBILEE YEAR OF POLISH AVANT-GARDE?

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Kosiewski P.

Muzealnictwo

2018

vol. 59

113-122

The year 2017 – a centenary of the “1st Exhibition of Polish Expressionists” – was proclaimed as the Jubilee Year of Polish Avant-garde. To mark the occasion over 200 events were organised by nearly 100 institutions. What is the outcome of it all? Has it changed the way the avant-garde movement and its role in Polish culture and tradition were perceived? Among accomplishments the jubilee year brought about is undoubtedly a number of exhibitions, their catalogues as well as other publications devoted to the avant-garde. Unfortunately, not all the initiatives turned out to be successful. Some of them though will be well remembered, inter alia: the cycle of exhibitions prepared by the Art Museum in Łódź which were accompanied by comprehensive and well edited catalogues; exhibitions: “Urban Revolt” at the National Museum in Warsaw, and “Avant-gardes of Szczecin” at the National Museum in Szczecin. One of the achievements is bigger amount of visual and textual resources available in Poland to explore the subject of the avant-garde. The jubilee publications also contained numerous documental materials that were not well known before. Significant theoretical texts have been published as well: the extended edition of Władysław Strzemiński’s Theory of Vision, and the Athens Charter by Le Corbusier, the importance of which can not be emphasised enough. The publication of relevant source materials must also be brought to attention; they came out as a series of catalogues by the Art Museum in Łódź, inter alia an ample selection of articles written by Debora Vogel in the book that accompanied the exhibition “Montages. Debora Vogel and the New Legend of the City”. During the jubilee year a question whether the avant-garde tradition resonates today was raised on many occasions. Two exhibitions presented various attitudes towards the heritage of the avant-garde: mentioned above “Montages” exhibition in Łódź, and one in the International Cultural Centre in Kraków “Lviv, 24 June 1937. City, Architecture, Modernism”.

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MARIAN MINICH (1898‒1965)

WHAT REMAINS AFTER THE JUBILEE YEAR OF POLISH AVANT-GARDE?