Object of the week
Object of the week
A painting on a stone by Jacek Malczewski
The collection of the Nowy Sącz Museum includes an unusual work by the famous Polish symbolist painter and outstanding portraitist Jacek Malczewski. This interesting exhibit is small in size and was made on an unusual base, an obliquely cut block of stone.
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Triple self-portrait
"Triple Self-Portrait" is one of Nikifor's most famous works and is one of the few large-format paintings that the artist painted in the 1920s. It is probably the painter's largest surviving painting.
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Picture painted on glass "Bobbers on the Dunajec"
Rafting season is in full swing. The Dunajec River is as crowded as "Zakopiance", among the highlander boats - kayaks, rafting pontoons and SUP boards. It's not like it used to be, when you could only see colorful rafters on the fast-flowing Dunajec River. For over 200 years, rafting down the Dunajec River has been the biggest attraction of the Pieniny Mountains.
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A bourgeois coif
A beautiful, decorative bourgeois bonnet was donated to the Museum in 1945. It was made in the first half of the 19th century. 19th century using 18th-century materials: silk brocade on top of a bonnet with a flower motif and gold bobbin lace with a palmette and flower pattern. The bonnet was a headgear for married women.
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The painting "At the hundred-year-old spring in Szczawnica"
A small watercolor by Antoni Kozakiewicz (1841-1929) depicting two women - highlanders, in traditional costumes: one in a kanafaska skirt and a light corset, the other in a dark navy blue skirt and a green corset. Both with scarves on their heads, both barefoot... They are standing with glasses by a rocky slope, on the bank of the Dunajec River.
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Viennese chair
Among the furniture in the apartment of MP Myjak from Zagorzyn, a wooden chair from the Viennese company Jacob & Josef Kohn deserves attention. The seat and backrest of the furniture are decorated with an embossed grotesque ornament, consisting of a centrally placed satyr's face and plant tendrils entwining it. The chair has turned, round legs and two decorative balusters serving as the sides of the backrest. There is a paper tag glued to the bottom of the furniture with the marking "Jacob&JosefKohn", which was used from the 1860s to 19
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Pieniny women's corset
Pieniny corset typical of highlander women from Szczawnica. Made of black velvet. The armholes, neckline and shoulder straps are trimmed with a yellow crepe ribbon. Corset fastened with the so-called "horses", to which a red ribbon is attached and tied.
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Optical paper fold
The collection of the Museum includes an optical compilation made around 1835 in Germany. After unfolding, it has the shape of a two-level accordion with five colored cut out pictures placed in each level, creating a three-dimensional effect.
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Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Kotlarski's garrison cap
Stefan Kotlarski's rogatywka comes from the times when he was the commander of the 31st Regiment of Kaniowski Riflemen in Łódź (1928-1931), sweat. this is also evidenced by the manufacturer's logo: "Korona" Piotrkowska 45 Łódź located inside on a leather piece of material, the so-called sweat.
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Wooden washing machine
In the hall of a wealthy highlander's house from Zagorzyn in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, looking at the center of the spores of a wooden device. It consists of an octagonal container made of vertical boards joined with metal hoops, supported on four wooden, slightly bent legs. Inside there is a corrugated wooden stand with two handles for removal, supported by a metal bar.
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Photo album - a souvenir from Szczawnica
A commemorative album from Szczawnica and Pieniny. Made in the interwar period by the photo studio FOTO-TATRY, operating at that time in Szczawnica.
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Medal with the image of Nicolaus Copernicus
2023 marks the 550th anniversary of the birth and the 480th anniversary of the death of the outstanding astronomer, doctor, mathematician, creator of the heliocentric model of the Solar System, Nicolaus Copernicus. This is a great opportunity to present a zinc medal commemorating him.
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Cabbage barrel
In the corner of the hall of the cottage from Gostwica in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, there is a barrel of small size. Its height is almost 1 meter, while the upper diameter is 1.2 meters! Unfortunately, we will disappoint all listeners during relaxing baths. In the context of the reality of the 19th-century countryside, it follows that this is the largest barrel, and therefore a larger amount of water, which is a real waste! Can you imagine how much an analysis with water carriers for a nearby well or efficient stream would have to be calculated to count such a vessel? The described exhibit had a lot of practical use, especially for pickling cabbage.
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Cross of the Order of the White Eagle
Cross of the Order of the White Eagle according to the pattern from 1921. In terms of precedence, the first Polish civil and military decoration, established by King August II the Strong at the Tykocin Castle on November 1, 1705. O. O. B. Cross of the Maltese type by. model from 1921, designed by Mieczysław Kotarbiński (January 3, 1890 – May 27, 1943), a painter, graphic artist, author of many decorations.
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Jerzy Nowosielski "Church"
The collection of the District Museum in Nowy Sącz includes a charming work by Jerzy Nowosielski entitled "Orthodox", purchased in 1982. The work shows a tripartite block of a wooden temple seen from the side, consisting of a high tower above the vestibule.
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