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EXHIBITION OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AND POLISH MASTERPIECES
[Image: Leonardo da Vinci - Lady with an Ermine, ca. 1490 - Oil on panel
The Princes Czartoryski Foundation, National Museum, Cracow -- The Princes Czartoryski Museum]
From March 8 to May 18 - The Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco will present historic exhibition of Polish Art: "Leonardo da Vinci and The Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage".
The story of Poland’s most important public and private museum collections will be presented for the first time anywhere outside of Europe beginning September 13, 2002 as the Milwaukee Art Museum opens Leonardo da Vinci and The Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage. The exhibition runs through November 24, 2002.
Leonardo da Vinci and The Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage is sponsored by Wisconsin Energy Corporation, Christopher Seton Abele, Polish National Alliance, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Spirit of Milwaukee, and The Kosciuzko Foundation, Inc., An American Center for Polish Culture. It is funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. Transportation is provided by LOT Polish Airlines.
The centerpiece of the collection of 77 paintings representing French, Italian, Dutch and German artists is Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine (Ceilia Gallerani), an undisputed masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. The powerful work also is particularly significant in that it was painted in approximately 1491 and anticipates the Mona Lisa (1505-14).
Other exhibition highlights reflect the proud history of collecting in Poland, including a love for the great Dutch and Flemish painters evident in the large numbers of their works found in the national collections, including Hans Memling’s The Last Judgement (1467-71), from Gdańsk.
The collection also includes important Italian Renaissance and Baroque works by artists such as Veit Stoss, Jan Matsys, and Ferdinand Bol, and several 18th century cityscapes of Warsaw by Italian court painter Bernardo Bellotto. Alongside these and numerous other European masters will be a select group of works by great Polish artists from five centuries, including The Great Poland Painter, Jan Matejko, Piotr Michalowski, Olga Boznańska and Jacek Malczewski.
Exhibition Highlights Polish Cultural and Historical Significance
The exhibition will highlight Poland’s place in history as a meeting ground for artists and intellectuals of many nationalities; a center for rich and diverse forms of royal patronage incorporating Italian, Netherlandish and French influences; a hub for international trade that produced a pluralism of taste, and a country that clung to its artistic culture in the face of a geopolitical order that shattered its national independence throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Adding poignancy and power to this exhibition is Poland’s determination over the past 50 years to recover and restore national treasures that were stolen or displaced during World War II. The exhibition will tell, for the first time, the story of the fate of important collections of European paintings in Poland as well as works by late 19th century Jewish artists. A number of the paintings will be on view for the first time since recovery and conservation.
Milwaukee Art Museum officials emphasize the dual impact of the art and its international significance.
“The exhibition is a highly charged symbol of international relations unlike any other exhibition in recent history,” says MAM Director Russell Bowman. “Supported by the President of Poland, the American Ambassador to Poland and a host of international scholars, this exhibition of the greatest masterpieces of European and Polish painting promises to be a favorite of audiences who will be thrilled by the masterpieces that have never before traveled outside of Poland."
Exhibition curator Laurie Winters, the Museum’s curator of Earlier European Art, notes that this is the first time MAM has partnered with the national institutions of another country to bring an important exhibition to the United States.
“This is a significant partnership and we hope it will be the first of many others to follow,” Winters says. “This exhibition is a great opportunity to showcase the significance of Poland as a European cultural center, a fact that had been lost for many years because of the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II and the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Poland has been effectively dismissed and ignored by American museums and scholarship – a critical omission that the exhibition and catalogue remedy.”
Museum to Publish Exhibition Catalogue...
Winters is one of several essayists who are contributing chapters to the exhibition’s catalogue. Published by Yale University Press, the book will chronicle Poland’s cultural contact with Italy, the history of collecting through the 17th and 18th centuries, Polish Art through the 19th century, restoration and collecting in Poland and the current state of Poland’s museums. Other contributing essayists include Paul W. Knoll, professor of history, University of Southern California; Wojciech Kowalski, professor of law, University of Silesia, Katowice; Andrzej Rottermund, director of The Royal Castle, Warsaw; Piotr S. Wandycz, Bradford Dufee professor of history, Yale University; Dorota Folga-Januszewska, director of collections and research, National Museum, Warsaw; Janusz Walek, deputy director and curator of foreign paintings, The Princes Czartoryski Museum, Cracow, and Antoni Ziemba, curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings, National Museum, Warsaw.
Programs and Events to be Scheduled Throughout Community...
Throughout the exhibition, the Milwaukee Art Museum will host and partner with local and international organizations such as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw Symphony to present a broad range of educational programs and activities designed to enhance the understanding of Polish culture to diverse audiences. Activities will include musical performances, lectures and a symposium.
The exhibition travels to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Address of museum:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
"Leonardo da Vinci and The Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage"
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121
USA
For information call: tel. 415 863-3330 or visit web site Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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