A detail of importance. Drawings of Marian Gongor in Silesian Museum 2011
A detail of importance. Drawings of Marian Gongor in Silesian Museum 19 October 2011 - 29 January 2012
A detail of importance. Drawings of Marian Gongor
Venue: Muzeum Śląskie
Location: Katowice
Date: 19 October 2011 - 29 January 2012
Marian Gongor is a retired mining rescuer, born and domiciled in Ruda Śląska. He has been a fan of drawing since primary school. Although his father was an amateur painter, Marian has preferred to express himself by drawing lines, and he has never been attracted by painting.
His preferred range of topics includes architectural details, parts of pavements, old manholes and hydrants - all these elements whose beauty we tend to overlook in our hectic life. Sometimes we thus need to stop for a minute, raise one's head or look down to notice the beauty that surrounds us. The artist also likes nostalgic laubas and houses for miners' families made of red brick, the ambiance of old backyards that remind him of his childhood spent in a Ruda Śląska workers' neighbourhood. This is why Gongor is keen on recording both images of Nikiszowiec and Zabrze-Biskupice or Lipiny; he makes them "freeze", which allows a viewer to get to know them in great detail.
Curator: Sonia Wilk
History of Silesian Museum
The beginnings of the Silesian Museum go back to 1924 , which is the date of establishing Towarzystwo Muzeum Ziemii Śląskiej (Society of Museum of Silesian Land). The society started to collect objects of cultural and spiritual value created in Silesia. Formally, after the resolution was passed by the Silesian Parliament on the 23rd January 1929, the Silesian Museum was set up and in May the first exhibition opened to the public. The museum pieces were displayed on the fifth floor of the Provincial Office and the Silesian Sejm building. Its first director was Tadeusz Dobrowolski, who instigated the whole program of this institution and coordinated it. He started with assembling items like: folk costumes, handicraft, paintings and a collection of sacred art.
In 1936 the construction of a new building for the museum started. It was going to be one of the most spectacular and modern edifices of that type in Europe. The overall concept of it was developed by its main architect Karol Schayer. Construction works finished in 1939 but the building was never officially opened. As soon as the World War II broke out the Nazi dismantled (tore down) the building – a symbol of Polish identity. The collection suffered as well and its sizeable chunk was destroyed and plundered. The rest that survived was moved to Landesmuseum in Bytom, now called the Upper-Silesian Museum.
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