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Aristocrat taking the waters. Count Zygmunt Pusłowski's purchases in Karlsbad

event-date: 13.02.2014

The new exhibition named ‘Aristocrate taking the waters. Count Zygmunt Pusłowski's purchases in Karlsbad' is getting closer. The opening will take place on 3rd March at 16.00 in the Jagiellonian University Museum.

What can you expect? Remarkable objects purchased by Zygmunt Pusłowski during his five visits in the famous Bohemian health resort in Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in years 1885 – 1897.

The new exhibition features objects from the Museum's collection, among them crockery sets, including two unique and almost complete sets: one made by Antona Hille in 1885, remarkable for its surprising geometrical forms, and second made in Ludwig Moser glass factory in 1892. Apart from this, several sets of silverware will be exhibited, made by distinguished producers from Vienna, like J. C. Klinkosch, Franz Heid, Ladislaus Jarosinski and others, who regularly visited Karlsbad during the season. Visitors will also see preserved furniture pieces and a porcelain set, travelling items, and images of Maria nee Moszyńska Pusłowska with Zygmunt Pusłowski depicted in various places in Karlsbad, like hotels where he stayed. The aim of this exhibition is not to present a general view of the  19th century phenomenon of visiting health resorts, but to focus on one person, count Zygmunt Pusłowski, who travelled to Bohemia for one specific purpose, from one specific place, on a particular trail, spending a certain time in the health resort and then returning to his Cracow home, where the objects purchased in Karlsbad were delivered later.

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Published Date: 13.02.2014
Published by: Paweł Siemianowski