{"id":24084,"date":"2026-04-02T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/research-departments\/gabinet-grafiki-i-rysunku\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:43:52","slug":"prints-and-drawings-room","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/activity\/research-departments\/prints-and-drawings-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Prints and Drawings Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pobnn-1-1024x477.jpg\" alt=\"Zbli\u017cony, stylizowany portret twarzy kobiety w be\u017cowo-czerwonej palecie z cienkimi niebiesko-czarnymi konturami, ukazuj\u0105cy oczy, nos i usta oraz li\u015b\u0107mi i kwiatowymi elementami wok\u00f3\u0142 g\u0142owy.\" class=\"wp-image-32851\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Prints and Drawings Room is a department that boasts the largest collection of the National Museum in Krakow, comprising 160,000 objects. Established in 1883, it constitutes one of the most important museum collections of this type in Poland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The room consists of the following sections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>prints,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>drawings and watercolours,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>design,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>miniatures,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>posters,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>blocks and plates,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>photomontages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The most numerous section \u2013 prints \u2013 was divided into the following groups: early Polish printmaking, early foreign printmaking, Polish printmaking of the 20th\/21st century, foreign printmaking of the 20th\/21st century, early Polish and foreign applied printmaking, Polish and foreign applied printmaking of the 20th\/21st century, portraits, views, saints, bookplates, militaria, illustrative woodcut, costume, as well as Polish and foreign albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection of the Room consists of paper-based works created by Polish and foreign artists between the 16th century and the present day. Other well-represented groups contain prints, iconography collections and applied printmaking. Our distinguished benefactors include Feliks Jasie\u0144ski, Emeryk Hutten-Czapski, Ludwik Skarbek Micha\u0142owski, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Bartynowski, Stanis\u0142aw Ursyn Rusiecki and Leon Kostka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection of prints is representative of the history of Polish printmaking. The National Museum in Krakow is in possession of a nearly complete oeuvre of Jean-Pierre Norblin, Jeremias Falck, Stefano della Bella, Kajetan Wincent Kielisi\u0144ski as well as significant collections of prints by Aleksander Or\u0142owski, Fryderyk Krzysztof Dietrich, Jan Zachariasz Frey, Antoni Oleszczy\u0144ski and Jan Feliks Piwarski. Noteworthy early foreign prints include works by Jacques Callot, Daniel Chodowiecki and a set of print series by Francisco Goya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Printmaking of the 20th and the 21st century is superbly represented by the Polish artists (e.g. Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski, J\u00f3zef Pankiewicz) and valuable French prints by Pierre Bonnard, Eug\u00e8ne Carri\u00e8re, Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Auguste Reonoire and Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The iconography collection features a valuable set of portraits of the royalty and prominent historical figures. Another noteworthy group features an impressive set of Views including vedute of most cities in Poland and the former Commonwealth, as well as main European cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Drawings section predominantly consists of works by Polish artists of the 19th and 20th century, made in various drawing techniques as well as pastels and watercolours. Some of the noteworthy works were authored by Jean Pierre Norblin, Piotr Micha\u0142owski, Artur Grottger, Juliusz Kossak, Henryk Siemiradzki, Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski, Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski, J\u00f3zef Mehoffer, Olga Bozna\u0144ska, J\u00f3zef Pankiewicz, Jan Stanis\u0142awski, Jacek Malczewski, Teodor Axentowicz, and Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head:<strong> Katarzyna Podniesi\u0144ska<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:kpodniesinska@mnk.pl\"><u>kpodniesinska@mnk.pl<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tel. +48 012 4335 552<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr Filip Chmielewski \u2013 ext. 619<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Danuta Gody\u0144 \u2013 ext. 572<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Magdalena Laskowska \u2013 ext. 552<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lucyna Lencznarowicz \u2013 ext. 551<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr Magdalena Ludera \u2013 ext. 551<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kinga Migalska \u2013 ext. 547<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beata Pacana \u2013 ext. 572<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bogus\u0142aw Ru\u015bnica \u2013 ext. 551<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paulina Taradaj \u2013 ext. 552<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Janina Wilkosz \u2013 ext. 552<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maria W\u00f3jtowicz \u2013 ext. 619<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prints and Drawings Room is a department that boasts the largest collection of the National Museum in Krakow, comprising 160,000 objects. Established in 1883, it constitutes one of the most important museum collections of this type in Poland. The room consists of the following sections: The most numerous section \u2013 prints \u2013 was divided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":24032,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24084","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32854,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24084\/revisions\/32854"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}