Renovation of the monument of Bartosz Głowacki in Lviv

Ukraine
2016
conservation
conservation works, Lviv, monument, Pole, polish people, Ukraine

o projekcie

The monument of Bartosz Głowacki can be seen while taking a stroll through the Lychakiv Park in Lviv. The idea to commemorate Głowacki with a monument appeared in 1894, but because of financial reasons the project was postponed until 1901 – which is when the inhabitants of Lviv formed a construction committee.

It was decided to have the design drawn up by Julian Markovski (1846-1903), a pupil of Parys Filippi.  In the end, the monument was built by Grzegorz Kuźniewicz (1871-1948), a Ukrainian artist working with Markovski. It was the last piece designed by Markovski. The sculptor died prematurely, before the work was finished. The monument was officially unveiled on 8 July 1906. 

In the 1990s, the monument was subject to a range of preservation works, which involved restoring the inscription plaque and supplementing it with content in the Ukrainian language. 

Bartosz Głowacki was born in 1756. He was a Polish peasant, one of the leaders of the scythe-bearing forces during the Kościuszko Uprising, and a chorąży[≈second lieutenant] of Kraków grenadiers. He got the surname “Głowacki” in recognition of his service in the Battle of Racławice (4 April 1794). Heavily wounded in the Battle of Szczekociny, he died on 9 June 1794 in Kielce.

2016

The conservation works carried out by the Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2016 involved reinforcing the structure of the monument, clearing accumulation off its surface, patching chips and cracks, and reconstructing the missing parts of the sculpture.

All this was performed by a conservation team composed of: Anna Sztymelska-Karczewska (manager) and Piotr Maślanka. 

The project was implemented thanks to the resources provided by the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, and when the institution was closed, the ongoing activities were supervised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Department of Cultural Heritage Abroad and Wartime Losses.

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