Witold Gombrowicz Museum (Wsola)
The Witold Gombrowicz Museum is located in a former mansion in Wsola , a village near Radom in the Polish Masovian Voivodeship . It is dedicated to the writer Witold Gombrowicz and belongs to the Adam Mickiewicz Literature Museum in Warsaw . Witold Gombrowicz visited the villa that belonged to his sister-in-law Aleksandra. Here he wrote his most famous novel Ferdydurke .
building
The mansion was built in 1914 for Jakub Grobicki based on designs by the Finnish architect August Furuhjelm. The building, which is characterized by neoclassicism , also has elements of Art Nouveau . In the 1920s, the villa came into the possession of Maria Pruszak, who gave it to her niece Aleksandra, wife of Jerzy Gombrowicz, Witold Gombrowicz's older brother.
After the Second World War , the property was nationalized and various charities were housed in the villa. In 2005, the Powiat Radomski district sold the mansion including the park of the Masovian Voivodeship, which set up the Witold Gombrowicz Museum there. The museum was inaugurated on October 10, 2009 in the presence of Rita Gombrowicz , the writer's widow.
museum
Numerous photos and documents by Witold Gombrowicz are exhibited in the museum. The museum also houses a collection of Witold Gombrowicz's personal items such as his typewriter, a chess game, and his pipe. In a reading room the works of Witold Gombrowicz are available to the visitor in original editions and translations as well as secondary literature.
literature
- Muzeum Witolda Gombrowicza we Wsoli . Museum prospectus
Web links
- Witold Gombrowicz Museum Portal Witold Gombrowicz
- Witold Gombrowicz Museum accessed on February 8, 2014 (Polish)
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ N , 21 ° 7 ′ 36 ″ E