ALOJZY OBORNY (1933–2022) IN HIS WIFE’S POST MORTEM

Abstract

Alojzy Oborny (1933–2022) was an art historian (MA 1955), assistant at the Pszczyna Castle Museum (1955– 1958), Head of the Raciborz Museum (1958–1961), a longstanding director of the Świętokrzyskie Museum, as of 1975 Director of the National Museum in Kielce (1961–1987, 1990– 2002), Deputy Director for Research at the National Museum in Krakow (1987–1990). A co-organizer and honorary member of the Kielce Branch of the Polish Art Historian Association, he was a long-standing member of the Council for Museums at the Ministry of Culture, as well as the president and a member of museum councils. He co-founded the Rotary Club in Kielce of which he was a member. As an art disseminator, he cooperated with Kielce dailies and cultural periodicals, as well as with the Kielce Radio. It was thanks to his efforts that the Former Palace of Cracow Bishops in Kielce was allocated to the Świętokrzyskie Museum (1971) which he subsequently raised to the dignity of the National Museum (1975). An active organizer of museum life, from the 1970s he initiated and co-organized an international cultural exchange, locating the Kielce museum collection and the offer of the Kielce Museum within the realm of Europeans culture. An expert in Polish painting, he created the Gallery of Polish Painting of the National Museum in Kielce. Oborny authored and co-authored museum exhibitions as well as several dozen publications and books on art, particularly Polish painting.