{"id":10174,"date":"2024-03-11T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herito.pl\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2024-03-11T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:47:21","slug":"exhibition-memento-vitae-paintings-by-jozef-czapski-in-the-collections-of-the-national-museum-in-krakow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herito.pl\/en\/ahice-en\/exhibition-memento-vitae-paintings-by-jozef-czapski-in-the-collections-of-the-national-museum-in-krakow\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition &#8220;Memento vitae. 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Because here I wasn\u2019t talking only about memento Mori, but about memento Vitae, which still awaits me, whether this life will last a day or a few years!\u201d \u2013 wrote 91-year-old J\u00f3zef Czapski in one of his last diaries.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition &#8220;Memento vitae&#8221; is the first presentation of the entire collection of Czapski\u2019s paintings in the collections of the National Museum in Krakow. J\u00f3zef Czapski is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by C\u00e9zanne.\u00a0 Although Czapski drew from French painting and was forced to live and create in exile, saw his painting primarily in Poland, against the background of Polish painting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead size-small\">This collection currently includes (as at the end of December 2023) 27 oil paintings and 2 oil sketches for paintings. It was created mainly thanks to gifts and individual purchases. Already in 1958, thanks to the efforts of the legendary curator of the Museum, Helena Blum, was purchased directly from the author Red Caf\u00e9 (1956), in 1960 Altar Boys (1955), and in 1967 Old Woman \u2013 Femme Forte (1965). In 1991, thanks to Tadeusz Nyczek, the National Museum in Krakow purchased Woman in the Window (1977) from the collection of Katarzyna and Zbigniew Herbert, and in 2021\u20132022 Couple (undated) and Young Men on the Beach in Dinard (1970) from Renata and Marek Szypulski.<\/p>\n<p>Czapski\u2019s paintings from their collections were donated to the NMK by El\u017cbieta Colin-\u0141ubie\u0144ska, Barbara and Richard Aeschlimann, Adela Maria \u017bele\u0144ska n\u00e9e Bohomolec and W\u0142adys\u0142aw \u017bele\u0144ski, the \u0141ubie\u0144ska sisters \u2013 R\u00f3\u017ca (artistic pseudonym Rula Lenska), Gabriela \u0141ubie\u0144ska-Steele and Anna, Lady Frances Phipps, Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda and Andrzej Wajda, Renata and Marek Szypulski and the Polish Humanitarian Fund (Fonds Humanitaire Polonais) in Lailly-en-Val in France.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is available at the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum (Pi\u0142sudzskiego 12, Krak\u00f3w), which constitutes the oldest and largest branch of the National Museum in Cracow. The neo-classical Czapski Palace, built in 1884 and designed by Antoni Siedek, functions as its main building and houses the world-renowned exhibition presenting the history of Polish coinage and medal art.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is open from 16.02 to 04.08.2024.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/exhibitions\/memento-vitae-paintings-by-jozef-czapski-in-the-collections-of-the-national-museum-in-krakow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mnk.pl\/exhibitions\/memento-vitae-paintings-by-jozef-czapski-in-the-collections-of-the-national-museum-in-krakow<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,65],"tags":[685,974,85,50,84,112],"class_list":["post-10174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ahice-en","category-exhibitions","tag-ahice","tag-central-europe-en-2","tag-cracow","tag-exhibition","tag-mnk","tag-poland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exhibition &quot;Memento vitae. 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