One legend says that amber is the petrified tears of the Heliades, sisters of Phaethon, son of the Sun god. Inspired by this myth and by the sun stone, Harald Popkiewicz created a unique object that can be admired in our Museum. Spring has come to the Amber Museum thanks to Harald Popkiewicz’s sun chariot, which lights up the Museum. “Chariot” was created in 2006.…
From a piece of “Baltic gold” he draws out the most precious things beneath its surface. Eugeniusz Salwierz is a Krakow visual artist. He started out making jewellery from acrylic glass. Later he switched to amber, and his love for it was born in the mid-1990s at the Dominican Fair in Gdańsk. In the book “Bursztyn nie tylko nad Bałtykiem”, talking to Anna Sado…
The Amber Museum holds a symbol of the search for purpose. For years his amber pieces have been breaking the rules. As he says in the book Bursztyn nie tylko nad Bałtykiem – “I do what my soul tells me. My aim above all is to find my own way, to avoid being pigeonholed, and to talk about jewellery in a different language every time.” The Amber Museum’s collection…
A true work of art, distinguished by timeless beauty and character. The beauty and warmth of amber have been appreciated for ages. Its unique forms and warm colour inspire not only jewellery but also remarkable sculptures set in gold frames, like the one this article is about. The amber version of “Christ Crucified” was made by a family…
A few words about the work of Joachim Sokólski. Joachim Sokólski was born in 1946 in Warsaw. From 1966 to 1972 he studied at the Faculty of Interior Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Sokólski was an outstanding maker of unique art jewellery. Between 1973 and 1985 he took part in more than a hundred group and solo exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Joachim Sokólski’s work…
At this year’s Amber Trip fair in Lithuania, the Amber Museum acquired a new exhibit, enriching its collection. Artist: Reimundas Padleckas, Vilnius, Lithuania. Object: “Agapė”. Materials: amber, walnut shell, a fork – found in the attic of an old house in Klaipėda, dating from between the First and Second World Wars. The plate – inherited from the artist’s grandfather, from before the war. The knife…
The sculpture of a woman on display at the Amber Museum belongs to a limited collection inspired by the beauty and harmony of the female body. It was created in the 1990s, influenced by the artist’s collaboration with the well-known sculptor Jacek Sumeradzki. “There were literally only a few of these sculptures, each one different, but each with a characteristic elongated figure, each in a style reminiscent of…
At the Amber Museum in Krakow you can admire the winged horse sculpture by Krzysztof Jacek Sumeradzki. In Greek mythology, Pegasus was believed to have been born from the blood of Medusa, which spurted out when Perseus cut off her head. Krzysztof Jacek Sumeradzki is a contemporary sculptor, a graduate of the Post-Secondary School of Advertising in Ciechanów, a member of the Association of Creative Work in Ciechanów and of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers…
A true and exceptional work of art, distinguished by enduring beauty and a timeless character. The painting Lady with an Ermine can currently be admired not only at Wawel, where it is shown while its home, the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, is being renovated, but also at the Krakow Amber Museum. The beauty of amber has been appreciated for centuries. It is a “stone” that remembers the most ancient times.…
Amber and silver are combined so often that the pairing can seem banal. In the hands of a creative maker, however, it can become a work of art – as with Tomasz Ogrodowski and his 1998 ring Amber and Silver. Created almost 20 years ago, the ring still surprises and delights with a concept drawing on Constructivism. Of course, its decorative value…
This family has been collecting amber for generations – first the father, and now his sons as well. The art studio Harald Popkiewicz runs with his sons has existed since 1973. They design and make art jewellery and three-dimensional forms in amber and silver. In 1983 Harald Popkiewicz was awarded the title of master of artistic craft, and…
In the Amber Museum collection you can admire the beauty and simplicity of amber in the work of Krakow artist Maryna Lewicka-Wala. Maria Lewicka-Wala lived from 1941 to 2011. She was a geologist by training, but her true passion was jewellery, which she began making in 1974. She was also fascinated by designing clothes from natural fabrics, sculpture and photography. From 1978 she was a member of the Association of Polish…
Greek mythology says the winged horse was born from the blood of Medusa. And what inspired K.J. Sumeradzki when he created this sculpture? Krzysztof Jacek Sumeradzki is a contemporary sculptor, a graduate of the Post-Secondary School of Advertising in Ciechanów, a member of the Association of Creative Work in Ciechanów and of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers of Applied Art in Warsaw. He probably inherited his love of art from his mother, who was…
At the Amber Museum in Krakow you can see an exceptional exhibit: a copy of the amber necklace of Duchess Sibylle of Brzeg. While making it, Marta Włodarska discovered that the “original” from 1610 on display at the Malbork Castle Museum is not an original at all… The story of this discovery may not be as gripping as a Dan Brown novel, but it is certainly very interesting – especially…