Tatra Museum in Zakopane
The art collection of over four thousand items consists of several interesting
sets. Two are permantently on display: the Zakopane Style collection in the
Koliba House and the collection of works by Władysław Hasior in a gallery in
Jagiellońska Street in Zakopane. Other sets are presented at temporal
exhibitions.
The largest and most representative collection consists of several hundred
paintings on Tatra subjects created since the mid-19th century by, among
others, Walery Eljasz Radzikowski, Alfred Schouppe, Stanisław Gałek, Aleksander
Mroczkowski, and Stanisław Kamocki.
Of much value to the history of Zakopane is a set of Kazimierz Sichulski's
caricatures including fifty large colour drawings created in Zakopane in
1914-1918. The caricatures represent famous people, actors, writers, poets,
painters, musicians and politicians who visited the capital of the Tatra Mts or
lived in Zakopane in the years of World War I. Sichulski's sitters included
Jerzy Żuławski, Ignacy Daszyński, Tadeusz Miciński, Józef Piłsudski and many
others.
The rich and varied collection of prints, depicting the beauty of the Tatra
landscape and the local people includes works by Leon Wyczółkowski, Jan
Rembowski and Antoni Kenar.
An important set of works consists of portraits of famous people, well-known
Poles, great artists and local people with, e.g. Dr Tytus Chałubiński,
Stanisław Witkiewicz (portrayed by Jacek Malczewski) and Jan Krzeptowski
Sabała. The set also includes paster portraits by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
(Witkacy).
Also interesting is the sculpture collection including works by artists like
Wojciech Brzega and Stanisław G±sienica Sobczak and, of the contemporary ones,
Antoni Rz±sa and Grzegorz Pecuch.
Zbigniew Ładygin ysladyg@cyf-kr.edu.pl