With deep sadness the Foundation regrets the loss of its long-standing member, Andrzej Stanisław Ciechanowiecki, who died in London on November 2nd at the age of ninety one. The funeral will take place at the Brompton Oratory at eleven o’clock on November 16th after which his ashes will be interred in the church at Mistrzejowice, Kraków.
His contribution to Polish culture and the arts was of enormous importance.
On October 9th 2015 an exhibition on the above subject was opened in Hoover Square, Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, based on the book of the same name which was financed by the Lanckoronski Foundation and published by the Professor Mojżesz Schorr Foundation.
(From left to right) Jadwiga Czartoryska (member of the Council of the Lanckoronski Foundation), Dr. Grażyna Pawlak, Professor Elżbieta Mazur and Professor Daniel Grinberg (co-authors of the book and exhibition), Piotr Piniński (president of the Lanckoronski Foundation) and Maciej Sadowski (co-author of the book and exhibition).
The website of the Polish Academy of Learning has been redesigned and one of the pages is now devoted to the Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae http://pau.krakow.pl/index.php/pl/wydawnictwo/publikacje-on-line/acta-nuntiaturae-polonae/wstep .
Volumes published between 2005-2014 were edited in a manner which permits their immediate release in digital form. A separate Lanckoronski Foundation grant also allows PAU to digitalize volumes published between 1990-2004 which are being scanned (from 2004 back) and will be successively made available on the page mentioned above. The Polish Academy of Learning plans to complete this task by the first quarter of 2016.
The greatest collection of scientific photographs in Central Europe, namely that of Count Karol Lanckoroński, was kept in the palace on his estate of Rozdół from the 1870s until 1915. During the First World War the collection was evacuated from there to Vienna where it was housed in the Lanckoroński Palace on Jacquingasse.
In 1929 Count Lanckoroński gave the Polish Academy of Learning his photographic collection, which comprised about sixty thousand images […] of architecture, sculpture and painting, with special emphasis on Italian art. Read more
Jakub Borawski, a member of the Council of The Lanckoronski Foundation as a guest at the honorary meeting of the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków on November 15th 2014.
Jacquingasse 16-18, Vienna, (from right): Artur Lorkowski, the Polish Ambassador to Austria, Professor Jerzy Wyrozumski, Secretary General of the Polish Academy of Learning, Professor Bogusław Dybaś, Director of the subsidiary of the Polish Academy of Science in Vienna.
The Viennese subsidiary of the Polish Academy of Science: Dr Joanna Winiewicz-Wolska, author of the book “Karol Lanckoroński and his Viennese Collections,” reading a letter from the President of the Lanckoronski Foundation during the meeting after the ceremony.
The conference’s opening ceremony in the Senators’ Hall of the Wawel Castle, (from left): Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Kraków, Professor Jerzy Wyrozumski, Secretary General of the Polish Academy of Learning, Bishop Jan Kopiec, Bishop of Gliwice.
Piotr Piniński, President of the Lanckoronski Foundation speaking to those attending the conference in the Senators’ Hall of the Wawel Castle, (on the left) Professor Jan Ostrowski, Director of the Royal Castle of Wawel.
Professor Piotr Skubiszewski introducing one of the speakers, Professor Jerzy Miziołek, in the lecture room at the Wawel Castle.
