The Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents invites you to a popular-scientific conference dedicated to the outstanding artist Awit Szubert on 18th April.
Due to the places and forms of his creative activities and experiments, Awit Szubert is better known in Krakow, Wieliczka, Zakopane and Szczawnica than in his hometown. Called the court photographer of the Tatra Mountains, he was also one of the pioneers of Krakow photography. He was the first ever to take pictures of the underground interiors of the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
Awit Szubert was born in Oświęcim on 3rd July 1837. He attended middle school and a drawing and painting school in Krakow. He continued his study of painting in Rome with his brother Leon. After the outbreak of the January Uprising in 1863, he joined the insurgents. After the fall of the uprising, he settled in Oświęcim and opened a photographic studio here in 1864. Three years later he moved the studio to Krakow. Here he collaborated with prominent Krakow artists, making reproductions of works by Artur Grottger, Juliusz Kossak, Henryk Siemiradzki and, above all, Jan Matejko. He won medals for his photographic work: at the Vienna Universal Exhibition (1873), at the Brussels Exhibition of Photography (1874), at the Vienna Exhibition (1875), at the Lviv National Exhibition (1877) and at the Paris Universal Exhibition (1878).
He died in Szczawnica on 27th May 1919 and was buried there. His mother Barbara, father Antoni and brother Leon are buried in the parish cemetery in Oświęcim.
The conference, entitled “Awit Szubert – a multidimensional photographer from Oświęcim,” will begin on 12:00 pm on 18th April 18 2023 (Tuesday) at in the conference room of the Remembrance Museum at 2A Maksymiliana Kolbego Street. For those of you unable to make it in person, the meeting will also be live streamed on the Internet.
The conference will be accompanied by a temporary exhibition with photographs, heliographs and postcards from the studio of Awit Szubert in the Remembrance Museum’s collections.
TAURON DYSTRYBUCJA S.A. is a partner of the event.
If you are interested in attending in person, please confirm your participation by 14th April 2023 Tel. 33 447 40 84 E-mail: biuro@muzeumpamieci.pl
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
1. Welcome and opening words
2. lecture Awit Szubert’s Oświęcim and Krakow atelier Speaker: Katarzyna Marko, curator of the Walery Rzewuski Museum of Photography in Krakow
3. lecture Awit Szubert – the first photographer of the Wieliczka mine Speaker: Dr. Barbara Konwerska, deputy director for science and research at the Krakow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka
4. coffee break
5. lecture Awit Szubert’s Szczawnica atelier Speaker: Barbara Węglarz, curator of the District Museum in Nowy Sącz, manager of the branch of the Józef Szalay in Szlachtowa Pieniny Museum near Szczawnica
6. Introduction to the temporary exhibition entitled Awit Szubert – a multidimensional photographer from Oświęcim Speaker: Piotr Hertig, employee of the Historical Department of the Remembrance Museum.
