Painting Conservation Studio in the Main Building
Painting Conservation Studio in the Main Building
Established in 1995, it is the museum’ third studio specializing in painting conservation, after the ones in the Sukiennice (Cloth Hall) and at the Princes Czartoryski Museum. At present, a staff of four specialists with degrees in art conservation provide care mostly for 19th and 20th century objects of Polish art kept in the Main Building. Conservation work on objects from other branches of the museum is conducted here as well.
In 2010–2013 the studio performed a series of important conservation works on objects intended for the rearranged art gallery in the Sukiennice. The restored paintings included e.g. Landscape with a Haystack, A Field of Lupine and Wilczyce: The Clover Field by Władysław Podkowiński, Susanna and the Elders by Franciszek Żmurko, Christmas Eve in Siberia by Jacek Malczewski, and The Battle of Zborów by Jan Piotr Norblin.
In addition to its ongoing activities, the studio undertakes comprehensive conservation projects on groups of paintings by specific artists, for example Zbigniew Pronaszko, Alfons Karpiński, Jacek Malczewski, Leon Wyczółkowski, or Witkacy. These are often occasioned by monographic exhibitions, such as the conservation of about fifty works by Olga Boznańska carried out between 2000 and 2004 in preparation for a scheduled show. Many of her paintings had not been transported since their acquisition by the National Museum in Krakow, due to their poor state of preservation. One of the methods used in the course of the project involved cleaning a powdered layer of paint while impregnating it, and devising a special composition of paste putty, adequate for the cardboard support in which large missing parts needed to be filled in. The conservation procedures improved the technical condition of the paintings and restored their aesthetic qualities to an extent which made them exhibitable.
Since 2010 the studio’s work has focused on about twenty paintings by Olga Boznańska from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, among them: Girl with Chrysanthemums, The Florists, Portrait of Miss Deuringer, Portrait of Feliks Jasieński, Portrait of Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Portrait of Mrs Bankiewicz.
The studio is also involved in preventive activity. In order to maintain adequate conditions for storage and display, the lighting and climate conditions in the galleries and storerooms are monitored on an ongoing basis, and the conservators supervise the packing and transport of the museum’s objects, carry out their annotations and check the state of preservation of loaned items, and also extend their care over temporary exhibitions held in the Main Building.
Studio team:
Urszula Małecka – head
Małgorzata Golińska
Anna Rydzewska
Dorota Wierzbicka-Miłkowska
Contact:
The Main Building
al. 3 Maja 1
tel. +48 012 433-55-81
In 2010–2013 the studio performed a series of important conservation works on objects intended for the rearranged art gallery in the Sukiennice. The restored paintings included e.g. Landscape with a Haystack, A Field of Lupine and Wilczyce: The Clover Field by Władysław Podkowiński, Susanna and the Elders by Franciszek Żmurko, Christmas Eve in Siberia by Jacek Malczewski, and The Battle of Zborów by Jan Piotr Norblin.In addition to its ongoing activities, the studio undertakes comprehensive conservation projects on groups of paintings by specific artists, for example Zbigniew Pronaszko, Alfons Karpiński, Jacek Malczewski, Leon Wyczółkowski, or Witkacy. These are often occasioned by monographic exhibitions, such as the conservation of about fifty works by Olga Boznańska carried out between 2000 and 2004 in preparation for a scheduled show. Many of her paintings had not been transported since their acquisition by the National Museum in Krakow, due to their poor state of preservation. One of the methods used in the course of the project involved cleaning a powdered layer of paint while impregnating it, and devising a special composition of paste putty, adequate for the cardboard support in which large missing parts needed to be filled in. The conservation procedures improved the technical condition of the paintings and restored their aesthetic qualities to an extent which made them exhibitable.
Since 2010 the studio’s work has focused on about twenty paintings by Olga Boznańska from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, among them: Girl with Chrysanthemums, The Florists, Portrait of Miss Deuringer, Portrait of Feliks Jasieński, Portrait of Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Portrait of Mrs Bankiewicz.
The studio is also involved in preventive activity. In order to maintain adequate conditions for storage and display, the lighting and climate conditions in the galleries and storerooms are monitored on an ongoing basis, and the conservators supervise the packing and transport of the museum’s objects, carry out their annotations and check the state of preservation of loaned items, and also extend their care over temporary exhibitions held in the Main Building.
Studio team:
Urszula Małecka – head
Małgorzata Golińska
Anna Rydzewska
Dorota Wierzbicka-Miłkowska
Contact:
The Main Building
al. 3 Maja 1
tel. +48 012 433-55-81