On 29 – 30 June 2023 a conference took place in Wrocław, organized by the Ossolineum and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL); the publication of the post-conference materials will be financed by the Lanckoronski Foundation.

The conference programme.

The conference programme.

Dr Łukasz Kamiński, dyrektor Ossolineum, i Piotr Piniński, prezes Fundacji Lanckorońskich

(from left): Dr Łukasz Kamiński, director of the Ossolineum,
and Piotr Piniński , president of the Lanckoronski Foundation.


 

3)Marian Lefferts, Executive Manager at the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).

Marian Lefferts, Executive Manager
at the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).

The speakers and organizers of the conference.



On 20 June 2023 the annual meeting of the Scholarship Committee took place in Kraków at the Polish Academy of Learning.

Komisja Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności

(left, nearest): prof. Bogusław Dybaś (Nicholas Copernicus University of Toruń), Piotr Piniński (president of the Lanckoronski Foundation),
prof. Andrzej Borowski (chairman of the Scholarship Committee), Wioletta Kania (assistant secretary of the Committee).
(right, nearest): prof. Edward Dąbrowa (Jagiellonian University of Kraków),
dr Hubert Kowalski (director of the Warsaw University Museum),
prof. Marcin Fabiański (Polish Academy of Learning), prof. Leszek Ziątkowski (University of Wrocław).
(remaining members): prof. Elżbieta Wesołowska (Adam Mickiewicza University of Poznań),
prof. Kazimierz Lewartowski (Warsaw University), Katarzyna Dzięgło (secretary of the Committee).

 

 


 

Under the patronage of the Lanckoronski Foundation a conference was held on 6 June 2023 in the Pomorze Library in Szczecin entitled “Count Leon Piniński and his Passions”, together with the presentation of the Count Leon Piniński Award for Knowledge of Roman Law.

 


(from right): Piotr Piniński (president of the Lanckoronski Foundation),
professor Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz
(deacon of the Faculty of Law of the University of Szczecin)
with the award’s recipients: Anna Czeczun, Aleksandra Laskowska and Jakub Wojciechowski.

(1st row from left): prof. Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz,
prof. Kinga Flaga-Gieruszyńska, Przemysław Wraga,
prof. Agnieszka Borysowska. dr Krzysztof Szczycielski, dr Ernest Bodura.
(2nd row from left): prof. Katarzyna Jaworska Biskup,
prof. Renata Świrgoń-Skok, dr Renata Wiaderna-Kuśnierz,
dr Wojciech Kosior.



On 19 December 2022 the square at the foot of the Wawel Castle in Kraków, at the junction of Podzamcze and Kanonicza Streets, was named after Professor Karolina Lanckorońska.

 


The invitation to the ceremony.

The invitation to the ceremony.

(from the left), Unveiling the name-plate are Piotr Piniński,
Dr Andrzej Betlej, director of the Wawel Royal Castle,
and Robert Piaskowski, plenipotentiary for culture
on behalf of the president of Kraków.


Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation
speaking at the unveiling ceremony.

(from the left), Borysław Czarakcziew,
chairman of the Social Committee for the Renovation of Kraków’s Monuments,
Dr Andrzej Betlej, Piotr Piniński and Robert Piaskowski.


On 18 October 2022 the 150th anniversary of the Polish Academy of Learning took place in Kraków in the Auditorium Maximus of the Jagiellonian University.



Professor Jan Ostrowski,
chairman of the Board of the Polish Academy of Learning.

Professor Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford University.


(1st row, left to right) Jerzy Muzyk, deputy mayor of the City of Kraków,
Artur Buszek, deputy charmain of Kraków City Council,
Jarosław Gracel, chairman of the Board of Astor plc,
Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation,
Wojciech Kolarski, secretary of state in the Chancellery of the Polish President.

Mark Brzeziński, US Ambassador to Poland.


The conference entitled
„Historical Libraries of Religious and Ethnic Minorities”
took place on 22-23 September 2022 at the Ossolineum in Wrocław.

The conference poster

Dr Łukasz Kamiński, director of the Ossolineum.


From the left: (row 1) Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation,
Dr Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak, vice-director of the Ossolineum,
(row 2) Professor Krzysztof Stopka, director of the Museum of the University of Kraków,
Monika Agopsowicz, member of the Board of the Foundation for the Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians,
Father Marek Miławicki OP, vice-director of the Dominican Historical Institute in Kraków.


A Promotion of the book
„Karolina Lanckorońska. In the Service of Science and Poland”
took place at the Ossolineum in Wrocław on 21 September 2022.

The book’s cover.

From the left: Dr Stanisław Bogaczewicz (co-author),
Professor Bishop Jan Kopiec (co-author),
Dr Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak, vice-director of the Ossolineum,
Dr Wojciech Biliński (editor, co-author),
Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation.


 

Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation.

From the left: Dr Stanisław Bogaczewicz,
Dr Lukasz Kamiński, director of the Ossolineum,
Dr Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak, vice-director of the Ossolineum,
Dr Wojciech Biliński,
Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation.



The Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków held a joint opening of two exhibitions, entitled ‘Masterpieces from the Lanckoroński Collection’ and ‘The New Royal Treasury’, on 30 June 2022.

Amongst those paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection which after the Second World War were sold on the European art market, are three, kindly lent by their present owners for the first of the two exhibitions. They are: Saint George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello (owned presently by the National Gallery in London), acquired originally by Count Karol Lanckoroński prior to 1892; Portrait of a 21 year-old Woman by a follower of Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder (today the property of the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill), purchased by the count in 1885 at an auction of the possessions of his close acquaintance, the artist Hans Makart, who died in 1884; and A Group in a Park by Barend Graat, earlier in the collection of the last King of Poland, Stanislas August (now belonging to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam). All three were amongst the most outstanding works which once belonged to the Viennese collection of the Lanckoroński family.

Guests were also invited to visit the Wawel’s third exhibition, entitled ‘Wyczółkowski Found’, presenting the painting A Highland Girl, sometimes also called A Country Lass in a Yellow Shawl, which was stolen during the Second World War having been earlier donated to the Royal Castle as part of the Wawel Foundation of Count Leon Piniński, founded in 1931.

 

A book financed by the Lanckoronski Foundation on the history of the Lanckoroński Collection, with emphasis on the paintings in the exhibition.

The director of the Wawel Royal Castle, Professor Andrzej Betlej.


 

The opening of the exhibitions.

The three paintings formerly belonging to the Lanckoroński Collection:
Saint George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello (centre),
Portrait of a 21 year-old Woman
by a follower of Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder (left),
and A Group in a Park by Barend Graat (right).



Presentation of the prizes for “the Count Leon Piniński award for knowledge of Roman Law”,
of which the Lanckoronski Foundation was patron.
University of Szczecin, 14 June 2022.

Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation (right),
with Professor Maciej Jońca.

Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation (left),
with Vice-Rector Professor Kinga Flaga-Gieruszyńska (right).


The diploma for 1st prize.


The promotion of the book „The Girl and the Scholar” which was financed by the Lanckoronski Foundation, took place at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on 24 May 2022.

Dziewczyna i uczony - Gerdien Verschoor

The cover

Od lewej: autorka Gerdien Verschoor i tłumaczka/redaktor Alicja Oczko

(from left to right) The author Gerdien Verschoor
with the translator and editor Alicja Oczko


Prezes Funcacji Lanckorońskich Piotr Piniński i prowadząca spotkanie Renata Kim

The President of the Lanckoronski Foundation Piotr Piniński
with the chairperson Renata Kim

od lewej: Prezes Funcacji Lanckorońskich Piotr Piniński, Alicja Jakubowska z Ośrodka Sztuki Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie, wraz z autorką Gerdien Verschoor

(from left to right) The President of the Lanckoronski Foundation Piotr Piniński,
Alicja Jakubowska of the Department of Art of the Royal Castle in Warsaw,
and the book’s author Gerdien Verschoor.



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