One Has to Move On with the Living... Adam Asnyk Memorabilia in the NMK collections

16.12.2016-12.03.2017 One Has to Move On with the Living... Adam Asnyk Memorabilia in the NMK collections

There are very few mementoes of Adam Asnyk – a poet, journalist, insurgent, Tatra climber, activist, Member of Parliament and Krakow councillor – preserved in Polish collections. Some of them – such as his oil portrait, ‘addresses’ on the occasion of his namedays – are stored at the National Museum in Krakow, and will be gathered for the first time in one exhibition to be presented to the public.

The exhibition 'One Has to Move On with the Living... Adam Asnyk Memorabilia in the MNK collections' will present mementoes of the poet donated to the Museum in 1899 by his son – Włodzimierz Asnyk.

The 120th anniversary of celebrating the 30th jubilee of Asnyk’s creative work, which falls in December 2016, serves as an appropriate occasion to present this collection which consists of e.g. a whole-figure portrait of the poet painted by Aleksy Stażyński in 1886, a silver wreath presented to Asnyk in 1886, an album with 20 photographic landscapes of Kalisz, and several commemorative addresses, diplomas and more than a hundred congratulatory telegrams that Asnyk received on the occasion of his jubilee.

The event constitutes part of a series of small anniversary exhibitions prepared by the Department of Decorative Art and Material Culture, which commemorate the lives of the most outstanding figures in Polish culture (Adam Mickiewicz – 1995, Jadwiga Łuszczewska – 2002, Józef Kraszewski – 2012, Prince Józef Poniatowski – 2013).

Author: Monika Paś

Keywords:

Adam Asnyk, Memorabilia, MNK collections

MNK The Sukiennice

Rynek Główny 3

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Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00 - 18.00

Artist unknown, Adam Asnyk with his parents – Konstancja née Zagórowska and Kazimierz Asnyk
Krakow (?), c. 1870 (?)
albumen print

Artist unknown, Adam Asnyk
Heidelberg, 1860/1861
albumen print

Walery Rzewuski (1837 - 1888), Adam Asnyk
Krakow, c. 1874
albumen print

Aleksy Strażyński (1859-1902), Portrait of Adam Asnyk
Krakow, 1886
oil on canvas

T. Cwiżewicz, Portrait of Adam Asnyk
1897-1910
bronze cast

Julian Stanko, Name day address from Ziomek to Adam Asnyk
Krakow, 1893
cardboard, gouache, ink, manuscript

Jan Styfi (1841-1921), after the original by Ksawery Pillati (1843-1902), based on a photograph by Walery Rzewuski (1837-1888)
Adam Asnyk (El...y), from: 'Tygodnik Powszechny' 1883, no. 27, p.1
Warsaw, 1883
newsprint, woodcut

Sash with a dedication for Adam Asnyk and Kornel Ujejski
Souvenir of the Mass dedicated to the souls of the Poets in St John's church in Vilnius
Vilnius, 1897
rep, print

Sash from a flower basket presented to Adam Asnyk by Aleksy Strażyński (in place of „a shy girl”) on behalf of Polish women during the play titled 'The Lerche Brothers' on 6 May 1886
Krakow, 1886
rep, print

Andrzej Zajkowski (1851-1914), 'Dr Adam Asnyk after a portrait by Kazimierz Pochwalski', from: 'Tygodnik Ilustrowany' 1897, no. 33, p. 1
Warsaw, 1897
newsprint, woodcut

A publication featuring panoramas of Kalisz presented to Adam Asnyk by 'Admirers' on 24 December 1896 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his creative work
Kalisz, Wincenty Franciszek Boretti (?) – photographs, A. Lewandowicz – binding, 1896
binding: cardboard, velvet, rep, cut and engraved silver

A diploma appointing Adam Asnyk as an honorary member of the Literary-Artistic Club of Lviv / Lviv, binding: Ludwik Wierzbicki, 1896
manuscript on parchment, binding: leather, velvet, silver, brass

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