Spotkania w Osiekach – Sztuka, Dokumentacja i Refleksje Po Latach
Artists' Meetings in Osieki – Art, Documentation and Reflections After Years

Summary/Abstract: The International Meetings of Artists, Scientists and Art Theorists were periodically organised in Osieki near Koszalin over the years of 1963through to 1981. As a consequence they left their mark in one way or another, on many important phenomena in 20th century Polish art. The First International Study of the Koszalin Plein Air organised in September 1963 by Marian Bogusz ofWarsaw and Jerzy Fedorowicz of Koszalin was the first artistic plein air in the modern sense of the term, held in Poland after World War II. Works bequeathed by artists attending the successive Osieki sessions were earmarked for the modern art collection of the Museum in Koszalin. This began in 1963 with a gift from Marian Bogusz himself (comprising works from the Krzywe Koło Gallery). As intended by the initiators of the Osieki plein airs, these works were to become the endowment of a future Museum of ModernArt in Koszalin. Now kept at the modern art department of the Museum in Koszalin, this body of over 500 works, augmented by a compendious archive documenting the plein airs, indubitably178 Sztuka i Dokumentacja nr 18 (2018) │ Art and Documentation no. 18 (2018) • ISSN 2080-413X • e-ISSN 2545-0050 • doi:10.32020/ART and DOC deserves a place among the more valuable collections of 20th century art. Within this trove, art and documentation overlap and augment one another, combining into a unique insight not only into Polish art, but also Polish art criticism and art theory in the period of 1963 to 1981.

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