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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In both periods, Zakopane had its own original conceptions
and achievements in its quest for a national style; during the
period of Tatra Young Poland, it was Stanisław Witkiewicz's
Zakopane Style. In the interwar period this search for a
‘Polish’ style continued with the participation of the leading
artists of the time (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, August
Zamoyski, Leon Chwistek and Rafał Malczewski) in the avantgarde
movements as well as Zakopane being established as
an interesting modern centre of sculpture and graphic arts,
initiated by Karol Stryjeński at the School of Wood Crafts.
The exhibition „Artists and Art in Zakopane” is based on the
Tatra Museum's own collection, complemented by a few
loans. It embraces painting, graphic arts, drawing, sculpture
and photography, as well as applied arts and posters.
The Zakopane colony is usually described as an artistic and
literary colony, as some of the artists, such as Stanisław
Witkiewicz (father) and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (son),
Leon Chwistek, August Zamoyski and Rafał Malczewski, also
had considerable literary achievements, which have been
important for Polish culture.
Art, literature and poetry were interwoven in Zakopane’s
artistic (and social) life, complemented mutually and linked
with other types of creative work – music (Mieczysław
Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski), artistic dance (Rita Sacchetto)
and theatre (the Formist theatre of Stanisław Ignacy
Witkiewicz).
Many of the displayed art works and their authors have
interesting literary references and contexts.
Photo: Mariusz Cieszewski / www.polska.pl
The display includes artworks by Leon Wyczółkowski, Wojciech Weiss, Zofia Stryjeńska, Jan Rembowski, Rafał Malczewski, Stanisław Gałek and Jan Gąsienica Szostak;
psychological portraits by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz; sculptures by Konstanty Laszczka, Wojciech Brzega, Stanisław Sobczak, Jan Szczepkowski and pupils of the
School of Wood Crafts; kilims and lacework, artistic woodcarving and many others exhibits.
We would like to also encourage you to visit two other branches of the Tatra Museum:
the beautiful, historic Highlander house situated at Droga do Rojów 6, which along with its interiors constitute the ideological model
of the Zakopane Style, now the Museum of the Zakopane Style – Inspirations; Koliba villa, ul. Kościeliska 18, which was the first house
built in the Zakopane Style, designed by Stanislaw Witkiewicz, and which now hosts the Museum of the Zakopane Style. Both these
places are connected to the exhibition at Oksza villa by many threads, and only by visiting all of them can you fully grasp the main
movements and issues of art in Zakopane until WW II.
92 TRAVEL.LOVEPOLAND
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