Cracow. Karolina Lanckorońska in 40 scenes
From November 20, at the Home Army Museum, you can see the photographic exhibition “The First and the Last. Karolina Lanckorońska polska”, a document of over a century of life of a scientist from a distinguished family, a soldier of the Home Army, great benefactors of culture and science. Opening of the exhibition event at 16.
From several thousand photographs, 40 photos were selected in the collection of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, documenting the life of the heroine of the exhibition, permission from the cradle. The last of the photos shown were taken in the 1990s. – it turns out that they have very different faces of a certain professor’s character: from the earliest years of a baby in the cradle, through a girl from the world, an active young woman, to an old lady at the end of her life. Karolina Lanckorońska was known for her very strong, distinctive, stubbornness. This can be seen in the photos, but you can also see an elegant, stylish woman, fantastically dressed, and even disguised, says Izabela Cisek, curator of the exhibition. – The title of the exhibition to the fact that prof. Lanckorońska was the first woman in Poland who was the daughter of a habilitation in art history, and then the last representative of the Lanckoroński family – application curator
The heroine of the exhibition was a human figure. Life in three centuries. born in 1898, died in Rome on August 25, 2002. Her father, Count Karol Lanckoroński (1848-1933), was a descendant of a powerful Lesser Poland family from Brzezie near Kraków, mother – Countess Małgorzata von Lichnovsky (1863-1957) , came from a well-known German aristocratic family. Karolina had siblings: half-brother Antoni (1893-1965) and Adelaide (1903-1980). Feeling good in the multilingual improvement extension, you turned off the tough Polish patriot. She gave the damage thrown out of the house towards the motherland. She inherited her passion for art history from her father. He was a lecturer at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. She inherited the Komarno estate in the Lwów Voivodship from her father.
During the war in the Home Army. Arrested in May 1942 by the Germans, she was imprisoned until 1945, including over two years of committing crimes in the Ravensbrück camp. After the war, she remained in exile, settling in Rome, where she founded the Polish Historical Institute. Together with her siblings, she creates a reproduction of works of art plundered by Germans from the family collection. For years they rested in bank safes in Zurich. The owner decided to donate them to the nation. Old Italian paintings were donated to the Wawel sciences in 1994, confirming the donor’s words “they come from the same country, their architects created the Wawel area and chambers at that time.” The gift was also complemented by a series of drawings by Jacek Malczewski, documenting Karol Lanckoroński’s expedition to ancient cities in Asia Minor.