Web Resources :

NB February 2022. This site has disappeared. The text of our description with the then links remains below as before. But pages from the site can still be found online as noted under the photograph of Leo Lewin.

The Polish government has been funding a research project to document Silesian art collectors from the 18th century onwards. The aim of the project is to create a publicly available database of information on private art collections in Silesia until 1945.

Beside the information on particular works of art, the database contains descriptions of the collections as such, accompanied by short biographical notes and portraits of the collectors as well as images of the interiors of their residences, decorated by the works of art. The database also contains a bibliography of the most important publications on the collections and the objects they  consisted of.  'The Reading Room', including theme related articles, is intended to be an important platform of information exchange. An additional source of knowledge on the former collections will be present in the form of critically processed fragments of contemporary texts, e.g. press articles, journals and diaries of visitors to art collections and other written accounts from the time of the collections' existence.