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On the 27 February 2025 a press conference and gala evening were held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw to celebrate the re-opening of The Lanckoronski Gallery.

From 28 February The Lanckoronski Gallery will be open to the public in a new arrangement. The works of art, including the two Lanckoronski Rembrandts, have been on show for many years on the castle’s ground floor, and now they have been been enriched by a new section dedicated to Italian art.

The principal works on display comprise the donation of Professor Karolina Lanckorońska, the last member of a family which for generations collected one of the greatest private collections in Europe. Part of her donation includes paintings formerly belonging to the last King of Poland, Stanislas August Poniatowski. Of them the most valuable are two works by Rembrandt van Rijn: A Girl in a Picture Frame and The Scholar by a Lectern. There are also portraits of members of the Lanckoroński family as well as their Rzewuski ancestors.

Professor Małgorzata Omilanowska, the director of The Royal Castle, speaking to journalists during the press conference.

Piotr Piniński, the president of The Lanckoronski Foundation, speaking during the press conference.

One of the rooms of The Lanckoronski Gallery.

Professor Omilanowska giving a speech during the gala.

Professor Elżbieta Orman of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Science, speaking during the gala.

Profesor Omilanowska przemawia podczas gali.

Speech by Piotr Piniński, the president of The Lanckoronski Foundation.

The foundation’s president Piotr Piniński giving a speech during the gala.

Photographs: The Royal Castle in Warsaw © B.Wronka.

On 30 January 2025 in the Ossolineum’s National Library in Wrocław was held the 9th meeting of The Provenance Working Group on the subject of The Lanckoronski Library.

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This was followed by a promotion of the book Historical Libraries of Ethnic and Religious Minorities which was sponsored by The Lanckoronski Foundation.

Afterwards, a co-operation agreement between The Ossolineum and The Lanckoronski Foundation concerning the future management of the Foundation’s projects (not including scholarships), was signed by the director of the Ossolineum Dr Łukasz Kamiński, and the president of The Lanckoronski Foundation Piotr Piniński.

President of the Lanckoronski Foundation Piotr Piniński.

Director of the Ossolineum Dr Łukasz Kamiński.

At Lwów University, on 13 December 2023, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of professor Karolina Lanckorońska, a lecture and discussion was held with the students entitled “Karolina Lanckorońska, the first female Associate Professor of the University of Lwów”.

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from left: Consul Bartosz Szeliga
(Director of the Department for the Polish Diaspora at the Polish Consulate in Lwów),
Dr Wiktoria Malicka (representative of the Ossolineum for foreign cooperation),
Prof. Wołodymyr Kaczmar (Vice-Rector of the University of Lwów
for matters academic, social and developmental),
Prof. Rusłan Siromskyj
(Dean of the Department of History at the University of Lwów).

from left: Natalia Tkaczyk (translator into Ukrainian
of Prof. Karolina Lanckorońska’s war time memoirs),
Piotr Piniński (President of the Lanckoronski Foundation).

At the Wasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library in Lwów, on 13 December 2023, was held the 102nd “Ossolineum Meeting”, entitled “About Karolina Lanckorońska, on the 125th anniversary of her birth”.

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Dr Wiktoria Malicka,
representative of the Ossolineum for foreign cooperation.

Natalia Tkaczyk, translator into Ukrainian
of Prof. Karolina Lanckorońska’s war time memoirs

Piotr Piniński, president of the Lanckoronski Foundation.

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During the XXXI Festival of Historical Books in Kubicki’s Arcades of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, took place on 3 December 2023 in the Forum room, the promotion of “Decyzje Bora” (a biography of Gen. Bor-Komorowski) and “Irena z Lamezan-Salins Komorowska. Malarstwo” (a biography and catalogue of the paintings of Irena Komorowska, the general’s wife).

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Hosting the presentation: Karol Płatek (of the KARTA Foundation),
Adam Komorowski (son of Gen. Bor-Komorowski),
Wojciech Rodak (editor of the book “Decyzje Bora”),
Piotr Piniński (president of the Lanckoronski Foundation).

In the Refectory of the Ossolineum, on 23 November 2023, was held a promotion of two books co-financed by the Lanckoronski Foundation: “Decyzje Bora” (a biography of General Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski), and “Irena z Lamezan-Salins Komorowska – Malarstwo” (a biography and catalogue of the paintings of Irena Komorowska, the general’s wife).

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(from left)
Dr Anna Kalinowska (co-author of the book on Irena Komorowska),
Dr Magdalena Białonowska (co-author of the book on Irena Komorowska),
Zbigniew Gluza (president of the KARTA Foundation),
Dr Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak (vice-director of the Ossolineum),
Adam Komorowski (son of Gen. Bor-Komorowski),
Wojciech Rodak, (editor of the book “Decyzje Bora”),
Piotr Piniński (president of the Lanckoronski Foundation).

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.

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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.

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.

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(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.

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(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.

This was followed by a promotion of the book Historical Libraries of Ethnic and Religious Minorities which was sponsored by The Lanckoronski Foundation.