Making collections available in “Polish lands” in the second half of the 19th century - the example of the Museum in Gołuchów
Polish collecting in the 19th century took on a special character, different from that in Western Europe. Aesthetic or scientific issues had to take into account the issue of protecting Polish historical heritage, promoting Polish culture or simply manifesting the Polish presence on the territories that once belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian state. Polish collectors faced legal restrictions from the partitioning countries - Prussia, Russia, Austria – that could result in loss of land estates or collections. This presentation will analyze the strategies of making the collections available in this difficult political context, focusing mainly on the situation in the Prussian state in the second half of the 19th century.
Paweł Ignaczak lectures in art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has worked in different museums since 2003 (National Museum in Poznań, 2003-2015 and from 2024; Polish Library in Paris, 2006-2007 and 2008-2009; Museum of Warsaw, 2015-2022). His principal research interests are eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art (printmaking, amateur art) and art exchanges between Poland and France; Polish collections in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He wrote his PhD thesis on the graphic work of Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830). He is currently working on the exhibition of Norblin’s prints, which will open in September at the Czartoryski Museum in Puławy.
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