Stawisko - Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz Museum / Muzeum Anny i Jarosława Iwaszkiewicz w Stawisku My Fav Spot

Stawisko - Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz Museum

Muzeum Anny i Jarosława Iwaszkiewicz w Stawisku

Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz received on her wedding day (1922) Anna’s estate from his father, Stanislaw William Lilpop, which they called Stawisko, where, in 1928 was built house designed by Stanislaw Gadzikiewicz. Stawisko from the beginning was not only the House of marriage of Iwaszkiewicz, but also an important center of cultural life, meeting place for many artists, especially writers and musicians, visited here: Jan Lechon, Antoni Slonimski, Karol Szymanowski. It was also a time of origin Iwaszkiewicz best stories, such as "Birch", "The Maids of Wilko" poems from the volume "Summer 1932" art "Summer in Nohant". A special page in the history Stawisko a time of war and occupation, when the house Iwaszkiewicz was a place of refuge for many refugees from Warsaw: Czeslaw Milosz, Stanislaw Dygat, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, Witold Lutoslawski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Leon Schiller, Jerzy Waldorff. After the death of both Iwaszkiewicz (Anna - 23 December 1979 Jaroslaw - March 2, 1980) - according to the will writer expressed in his will - house became the property of the state and has been designed for the Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz Museum. Stawisko interior retains its original character of a wealthy Polish home with collections of nineteenth and twentieth-century paintings and other works of art, furniture, appliances and objects everyday use. There is the writer’s office, library, bedroom, living room, entrance hall and staircase. Today Stawisko operates primarily as a special center of high culture, in which tradition continued living literary-musical past.

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