Exhibition entitled “Napoleon Orda. Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Country” at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk

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Exhibition entitled “Napoleon Orda. Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Country” at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk” from the collection of the National Museum in Kraków.

2017

The year 2017 marked the 210^thbirthday anniversary of Napoleon Orda (1807-1883), which became an opportunity to organise an exhibition showcasing the artist’s output. The exhibition included 110 drawings and watercolour paintings depicting places significant for many reasons to both Poles and Belarusians.

It was the first such a large exhibition presenting the works of Napoleon Orda abroad.

Napoleon Orda (1807-1883) is one of the most interesting names in Polish art of the 19^thcentury. The artist left an impressive legacy – over 1,000 drawings and watercolour paintings depicting places he visited in the years 1840-1880 during his journeys as an artist, first across France, the Rhineland, Spain, and Portugal, then around the governorates of Grodno, Volhynia, Minsk, Kaunas, Vitebsk, Vilnius, and Mogilev, the Grand Duchy of Posen, West Prussia, and Galicia. 260 of these works were printed in the “Album of Historical Views of Poland”, published in eight portfolios in the years 1873-1883.

Orda focused not only on the picturesqueness of the landscapes and sites he painted but most of all on the significance of the presented motifs. That’s why his works feature so many places significant for historical or patriotic reasons. He did not limit himself to sacral or representative architecture or scenic ruins, though. He drew and painted also industrial objects – factories, sugar refineries, regular mills or fulling mills. He also distanced himself from the traditional canon of beauty that required embellishment and idealization, and opted for truthful representation that did not leave out any potentially disfiguring details. His approach to colour schemes was very well thought out, and his objective was to capture the colours characteristic of particular sites.

Curators of the exhibition: Aliaksei Kharak and Urszula Kozakowska-Zaucha (National Museum in Kraków)

The project was granted financing from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s resources.

The exhibition was organised by the National Museum in Kraków, the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, and the Cultural Heritage Foundation in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Minsk.

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