The Wlodzimierz and Jerzy Kulczycki Art Gallery is located in a house built in the dwor (manor house) style in 1929. After the Second World War, it was turned into a guest house villa for high-ranking officials. Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a post-war Prime Minister, was among those who stayed there, hence its nickname, the "Cyrankiewiczowka". Since 1981, the villa has housed the Oriental Rug Gallery, a gift presented to the Tatras Museum in 1977 by Anna Piotrowicz-Kulczycka, Jerzy Kulczycki's widow.
The collection of oriental textiles and rugs was begun in 1906 by Wlodzimierz Kulczycki (1862-1936), who was a professor at the Lwow Veterinary Academy, and later its rector. His son Jerzy (1898-1974), an art historian, continued adding to the collection, which includes 65 rugs and textiles from Iran, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus. The subtlety and harmony of colour combinations are beguiling, and the abundance and mysteriousness of the symbols used in the ornamentation are fascinating.
The Gallery also displays more than 100 paintings and prints by Marek Zulawski, a contemporary artist who spent his childhood and adolescence in Zakopane. As a young man, Zulawski, a mountain climbing enthusiast, got to know a great many artists, writers and musicians of that time who would gather at his parents' home, including Kazimierz Tetmajer, Jan Kasprowicz, Leopold Staff, Wladyslaw Orkan, Tymon Niesiolowski, Artur Rubinstein, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Wladyslaw Reymont, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski, Kazimierz Sichulski and many others.
Galeria Sztuki na Kozińcu
im. Włodzimierza i Jerzego Kulczyckich
Oddział Muzeum Tatrzańskiego w Zakopanem
ul. Koziniec 8
34-500 Zakopane
Region: małopolskie
Phone: (+48 18) 201 29 36
WWW: www.muzeumtatrzanskie.com.pl
Email: sztuka@muzeumtatrzanskie.pl