{"id":299518,"date":"2023-08-14T16:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=299518"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:48:57","slug":"stefan-knapps-panneau-on-the-assembly-hall-building-at-nicolaus-copernicus-university-in-torun-to-be-conserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/stefan-knapps-panneau-on-the-assembly-hall-building-at-nicolaus-copernicus-university-in-torun-to-be-conserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Knapp&#8217;s panneau on the assembly hall building at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru\u0144 to be conserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 50 years of covering Stefan Knapp&#8217;s panneau on the auditorium building of Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Toru\u0144, conservators have begun restoration work. The distinctive installation of enamelled metal panels was handled by experts from the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Architecture and Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Toru\u0144.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation, comprising an image of Copernicus, a sundial, a plate with the artist&#8217;s signature and a sculptural composition symbolising the system of celestial bodies, was created and donated to the university by Stefan Knapp on the 500th anniversary of the astronomer&#8217;s birth. The front wall of the auditorium is decorated with 255 square elements in three sizes: 164 small, 67 medium and 24 large. The artist made all the mosaic pieces in his English studio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work will be funded by the University of Toru\u0144 and the City of Toru\u0144 in connection with the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.umk.pl\/pl\/article\/sztuka-w-konserwacji\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/portal.umk.pl\/pl\/article\/sztuka-w-konserwacji<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 50 years of covering Stefan Knapp&#8217;s panneau on the auditorium building of Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Toru\u0144, conservators have begun restoration work. The distinctive installation of enamelled metal panels was handled by experts from the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Architecture and Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":299423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299526,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299518\/revisions\/299526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}