{"id":22995,"date":"2026-04-19T17:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wystawy\/from-japan-to-europe-beautiful-and-useful-objects\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:47:01","slug":"from-japan-to-europe-beautiful-and-useful-objects","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wystawy\/from-japan-to-europe-beautiful-and-useful-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"From Japan to Europe. Beautiful and Useful Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"


An important place in Jasie\u0144ski’s collection belongs to art from the Far East, including Japanese and Chinese painting, Buddhist sculpture, textiles, small objects made of bone, wood, lacquer, bronze and enamel, Japanese and Chinese ceramics, as well as Japanese militaria and other exhibits. However, special attention should be paid to the incredibly impressive collection of Japanese colour woodcuts, currently consisting of over 4600 items. This part of the collection suffered considerable damage during the Second World War, when the Nazis looted nearly 500 prints. Nevertheless, the collection still remains one of the most valuable in Europe, and its status is based on the names of such outstanding masters of Japanese woodcuts of the Floating World genre as Harunobu, Toyokuni, Utamaro, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, and others. Other valuable works include those by Katsushiki Hokusai, whose art inspired Jasie\u0144ski to adopt one of his pseudonyms \u2013 Manggha. Thanks to the involvement of the collector, who was enraptured by Japanese culture, this particularly valuable collection of Japanese objects became the source of various inspirations for the artists of his generation \u2013 the creators of Polish Modernism \u2013 who inscribed Polish art in the pan-European trend of changes taking place in the art of the turn of the century.

Numerous valuable exhibits from Jasie\u0144ski’s collection are displayed in permanent galleries of the National Museum: in the Sukiennice’s Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art, in the Gallery of 20th and 21st-Century Polish Art, Gallery of Decorative Arts and Gallery ‘Arms and Uniforms in Poland’ in the Main Building, as well as in the J\u00f3zef Mehoffer House and formerly even in the Gallery of Western European Painting of the Princes Czartoryski Museum.
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\"Tr\u00f3jdzielna
Utagawa Hiroshige, Scene in Snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Obraz
J\u00f3zef Pankiewicz, 'A Japanese Woman'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Br\u0105zowy
A vase with a silhouette of a dragon, second half of the 19th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wysoki,
Folding desk, 19th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Grafika
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Window View of the Uchikawa River, the Woods behind the Suijin Temple and the Village of Sekiya'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bia\u0142a
A ko-omote mask for the role of a young girl in no theatre, 19th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dwudzielny
Kikoku, Two-winged screen \u2013 Flowers of the Four Seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Z\u0142ocony
Buddha Amida Standing on a Lotus Flower against Mandrola, first half of the 14th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Obraz
Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski, Portrait of Feliks Jasie\u0144ski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Malarstwo
W\u0142adys\u0142aw Podkowi\u0144ski, A Lupin Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Portret
Jacek Malczewski, Portrait of Feliks Jasie\u0144ski with a Portfolio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pionowy,
J\u00f3zef Pankiewicz, Barbarka and FLowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fragment
Jan Stanis\u0142awski, Cathedral in Siena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Obraz
Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski, Sta\u0144czyk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Obraz
Jacek Malczewski, Exiles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rysunek
Tichy Karol, Portrait of Feliks Jasie\u0144ski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Drzeworyt
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Clearing Weather after a Snowstorm in Kameyama', plate no. 47 from the series: 'The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Czarno-bia\u0142a
Francisco Goya, 'Gloomy Premonitions of What Must Come to Pass', plate no. 1, from the series 'The Disasters of War'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Czarno-bia\u0142a
Max Klinger, Intermezzo, Tabl. VII\/1 \u2013 'Rettungen Ovidischen Opfer' 1879, 1880; etching, paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Szkicowa
James Whistler, Alderney Street, 1880\/1881, etching, paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An important place in Jasie\u0144ski’s collection belongs to art from the Far East, including Japanese and Chinese painting, Buddhist sculpture, textiles, small objects made of bone, wood, lacquer, bronze and enamel, Japanese and Chinese ceramics, as well as Japanese militaria and other exhibits. However, special attention should be paid to the incredibly impressive collection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23108,"template":"","wystawy_categories":[],"class_list":["post-22995","wystawy","type-wystawy","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy\/22995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wystawy"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy\/22995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wystawy_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy_categories?post=22995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}