From Lviv To Krakow: Folk Woodcuts

Fri 12th
Sep
From Lviv To Krakow: Folk Woodcuts

A collection of 141 woodcuts from the 19th c. is a genuine ethnographic trove that has never been presented in public. What's more access to them was off limits since 1940's. One of the largest and oldest collections of folk graphics was assembled by Józef Gwalbert Pawlikowski, a 19 c. bibliophile and collector in today’s Ukraine in the last period of folk woodcut's existence. Later this type of artistic expression was replaced by paintings on glass, and more modern graphic techniques.

The exhibition allows entering the realm of symbolic and aesthetics is that characteristic for historic folk art, as well as the pioneer collecting concept.

The exhibition is a fruit of a few years’ work of Ethnographic Museum staff on a project Virtual Museum of Folk Woodcuts, dedicated to Polish folk woodcut art heritage. The team discovered Pawlikowski’s collection in Wasyl Stefanyk Ukrainian National Library in Lvov.

Tickets: 13/7 PLN, on Sunday admission free, family ticket 20 PLN

This event happens in Ethnographic Museum

Ethnographic Museum
pl. Wolnica 1
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