Travel.LovePoland December 2020
Dear Readers, As befits the winter issue of the magazine, we encourage you to get to know and visit various parts of Poland. We show you round the most famous places, such as Gdańsk or the Tatras (in Łukasz' beautiful photographs), but we also encourage you to get to know the less known ones, such as Tylicz or Ochodzita or the Herbst Museum in Łódź. As usual, we devote a lot of space to Polish nature. This time in two articles: Magda and Łukasz take you on the Biebrza, and Włodzimierz Stachoń invites you to get to know wild birds. There must be also something about Christmas traditions. As always, Kasia Skóra will tell about many of them – but she won't be the only one. Get to know some secrets of Polish Christmas cuisine, including those described by Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolałek. And almost at the end, we have for you a beautiful, in our opinion, photo gallery by Kamila Rosińska - kept in a very festive mood. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Good New Year.
Dear Readers,
As befits the winter issue of the magazine, we encourage you to get to know and visit various parts of Poland. We show you round the most famous places, such as Gdańsk or the Tatras (in Łukasz' beautiful photographs), but we also encourage you to get to know the less known ones, such as Tylicz or Ochodzita or the Herbst Museum in Łódź. As usual, we devote a lot of space to Polish nature. This time in two articles: Magda and Łukasz take you on the Biebrza, and Włodzimierz Stachoń invites you to get to know wild birds. There must be also something about Christmas traditions. As always, Kasia Skóra will tell about many of them – but she won't be the only one. Get to know some secrets of Polish Christmas cuisine, including those described by Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolałek. And almost at the end, we have for you a beautiful, in our opinion, photo gallery by Kamila Rosińska - kept in a very festive mood.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Good New Year.
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Another valuable contribution to the pre-war collection of Polish
painting was the gift of the Łódź industrial tycoon, Karol Eisert,
who donated the following paintings: Alchemist Sędziwój and
King Sigismundus III by Jan Matejko, Intermezzo by Jacek
Malczewski, and a Wounded Cuirassier and a Girl by Wojciech
Kossak. The list of donors includes also other names of Łódź
industrialists, such as, e.g., Stanisław Silberstein, Jakub Brat-Kon
or the heirs to Henryk Grohman. Collection of the newly
established museum was also expanding as a result of
subsequent acquisitions. Among the most precious purchases of
the pre-war period we can mention two portraits by Olga
Boznańska, the famous Portrait of the Artist’'s Mother by Henryk
Rodakowski, and the Self-Portrait by Piotr Michałowski. After
the war the collection was constantly expanded with donations
and purchases but also as a result of many transfers. Currently,
it is composed of more than 700 artworks, out of which almost
450 are oil paintings. Major sets of works are graphics by Jan
Piotr Norblin (84 works) and the paintings by Marian
Wawrzeniecki (28 oil works and gouaches). Latest acquisitions
include Adolf Herstein painting, considered lost, Landscape with
Peasants/Prayer, 1900 – purchased in 2007.
The Herbsts. Unfinished Stories
Newly discovered archive materials used to prepare the
exhibition allowed us to tell the history of two generations of
the Herbst family, which exerted significant impact upon the
development of Łódź. The exhibition in Herbst Palace Museum
unconventionally leads us through the history of palace owners
set against the background of the history of Łódź at the turn
of the 19th and the 20th centuries. The title „Unfinished
Stories” makes references to both family links with the city
broken by historic events and to still continued studies on the
history of industrial Łódź. The flourishing of the Łódź industry
turned a small settlement into one of the most powerful
industrial cities in Europe. Such a dynamic development
enabled some families, the Herbsts included, accumulate huge
fortune within a relatively short time. The Herbsts were not
only active by taking care of their business and amassing
wealth. Both Edward and Matylda engaged themselves in public
and charity activities. They supported new hospitals, donated
significant amounts for the construction of churches of
various religions and were involved into the life of the city.
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