{"id":33734,"date":"2024-08-12T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/wystawy\/przykladowa-wystawa-do-powielania\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:59:40","slug":"przykladowa-wystawa-do-powielania","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wystawy\/przykladowa-wystawa-do-powielania\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in uniform. The War Graves Department in Krakow 1915\u20131918"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A board exhibition with art objects introducing the work of artists active in the War Graves Department in Krakow (Kriegsgr\u00e4berabteilung Krakau, abbreviation: KGA). In 1915\u20131918, the group was responsible for arranging the space of the former battlefields and the construction of cemeteries primarily in the area of Western Galicia. Over 40 individuals collaborated with the Department \u2013 architects, painters, sculptors, graphic designers, and photographers from various countries of the monarchy.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition presents the work process of the Department. It showcases original plans, topographic maps, numerous photographs \u2013 including those previously unpublished \u2013 from the time when the cemeteries were designed, as well as original surviving artifacts: sculptures, tombstones, and works of art obtained during the renovation of cemeteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An important objective of this exhibition is to revive the interest in the work of artists who worked for the Department \u2013 famous artists such as Du\u0161an Jurkovi\u010d, Henryk Uziemb\u0142o or Alfons Karpi\u0144ski, but also those less known, discovered only in the last decade. The second group includes, among others, Hans Mayr, Gustaw Ludwig, and Heinrich Scholz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On display are works addressing the military and everyday issues, including sketches documenting the life in the barracks, landscapes, battlefields, temporary burial sites, genre sketches, leaflets, and medals. Among particularly interesting exhibits are gouaches and watercolours with the views of Krakow and Galicia by the Viennese landscape painter Franz Poledny, etchings by Robert Pochop, Reinhold V\u00f6lkel\u2019s watercolours with views of war cemeteries, and Henryk Uziemb\u0142o\u2019s oil and watercolour sketches to the now lost panorama \u201cGorlice 1915\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n The display boards and artworks are supplemented with one more important element \u2013 the first edition of the work \u201cDie Westgalizischen Heldengr\u00e4ber aus den Jahren des Weltkrieges 1914\u20131915\u201d [The West Galician heroes\u2019 graves from the years of the World War 1914\u20131915] by Rudolf Broch and Hans Hauptmann, summarising the Department’s activity. <\/div>\n
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In the exhibition, the focus on the artistic aspect of the work of the War Graves Department in Krakow comes together with the emphasis on the postwar history of the cemeteries. Many of these sites have been destroyed. Those that survived are now included in the Lesser Poland part of the \u201cTrail of the Eastern Front of World War I\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition has been organised in cooperation with Ma\u0142opolska Provincial Office in Krak\u00f3w.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibits presented in the object-based part come mainly from private collections, and together with the board part also from the National Archives in Krakow, the Slovak National Archives in Bratislava, the National Museum in Krakow, the Museum of Krakow, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Alfons Karpi\u0144ski Painting Gallery in Stalowa Wola, the Stanis\u0142aw Fischer Museum in Bochnia, the Regional Museum in Rzesz\u00f3w, the Regional Museum of the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society in Gorlice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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dr Beata Nykiel<\/div>\n
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dr Agnieszka Partridge<\/div>\n
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\n Journalist, publicist, and art historian. Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. Member of, among others, PKN ICOMOS, the Society of Enthusiasts of Krakow History and Monuments, “Crux Galicjae,” the Association of Polish Journalists, the Association of Polish Filmmakers, and the Association of Art Historians. Author of the album monograph “Open the Gates of Memory. War Cemeteries from 1914\u20131918 in Ma\u0142opolska” (together with photographer Rafa\u0142 Korzeniowski).\r\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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