Our Opinion
Was the shipment of the
Hanna Weynerowska KALI
paintings
not sent to the address of the
Polish Museum in Rapperswil?
Some questions remain that still require documented answers.
Did the California shipper/sender actually put the paintings in the designated and designed boxes (crates) as prepared by the Polish Museum?
Each box/crate was to have had specific dimensions for specific paintings.
From the extensive bulk documentation we have presented only some items prove:
(a) there was an Agreement between Hanna Weynerowska KALI and the Polish Museum at Rapperswil detailing the donation of ninety (90) paintings from the large Kali Collection in California.
(b) the Agreement was signed by KALI Weynerowska with witness signatures.
(c) the ninety (90) paintings in California were stored in four locations, i.e. the KALI home, garage and house, and also in the possession of Josef Traverso and William Johnson of San Francisco, California.
According to KALI Agreement with attached list of donated paintings, from the ninety (90) paintings in question, KALI decided to sell some paintings to defray or offset the crating shipping expenses incurred in sending the paintings to Switzerland.
Some documents in PDF format
(Please click on picture)
From correspondence between Janusz Morkowski and Mark Woytowicz Wyatt only seventy-nine (79) paintings were mentioned. Thus it is clear that eleven (11) KALI Weynerowska paintings were sold by Mark Woytowicz Wyatt to cover the aforementioned transportation expenses.
From the letter of JM GTI Company of July 4, 2002 sent to Janusz Morkowski’s private home address, it is clear that all transportation expenses were mutually agreed to by both parties.
Some questions that require documented answers by Wyatt still remain.
Did the California sender/shipper put the paintings in the boxes designed by the Polish Rapperswil Museum?
The question then becomes “Did Mark Wyatt actually turn over to JM GTI Transport Company all seventy-nine (79) paintings or did he use some other company to send those paintings to Switzerland?”
The next questions would be how much money did Mark Woytowicz Wyatt realize by selling the eleven (11) paintings to “cover” the shipping expenses?
Did the Polish Museum at Rapperswil benefit from the sale of the eleven (11) paintings?
Janusz Morkowski apparently circulated a rumor in Rapperswil) indicating that seventy-nine (79) of the ninety (90) paintings had been destroyed by a fire at Wyatt’s home in California.
If, in fact, the paintings were destroyed by a fire, the insurance company should have covered the loss for the interested parties.
Where then is the money from the insurance, money which should have been given to the Rapperswil Museum’s account?
If all seventy-nine paintings were destroyed in the fire, then Mark Woytowicz Wyatt should have sent the money he had collected to offset the shipping expenses by selling the eleven (11) Kali paintings to the account of the Rapperswil Museum.
Now, perhaps, Mark Woytowicz Wyatt can offer us an explanation that will enable us to close the case of the missing KALI paintings that were bequeathed to the Polish Museum at Rapperswil.
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Did Kali’s art work include sexual accentuations
and what happened to them?
Let us return to the beginnings of the artistic career of Ms. Hanna Gordzialkowska -Weynerowska- Kali
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, for many young Poles, their imaginations, ambitions and even lives had changed dramatically. Kali at that time was a student in the Art Academy in Warsaw where she wanted to continue her studies.
Instead she found herself drawn into the underground resistance movement, i.e. The Home Army, the largest underground, organized army in the world at that time.
She was quick to enroll in and study at the underground military school, graduating with the rank of lieutenant. She was assigned to a Special Force unit dealing with sabotage in all its forms.
Kali was wounded in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and for her heroism she was awarded the Uprising Cross.
After the Uprising collapsed, Kali was captured by the Germans and sent to a German military prison camp. Later Kali was liberated by the Soviet Army. She was living in the Soviet Sector from which she escaped to Belgium in the Fall of 1945.
While in Belgium she resumed her art studies at the Royal Art Academy in Brussels. By 1950 Kali had moved to Canada where she achieved a great success and recognition. Her art works earned many prestigious awards. Her art was selected to represent Canada in its Modern Art Exhibition held in Sao Paulo, Brazil and also in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1953 Kali and her husband Henryk moved to California, living in San Francisco. The U.S. art critics praised her work highly and both its appreciation and prices continued to increase.
Kali preferred to keep many of her works close at hand; however, when needed, she would use them as collateral for loan guarantees for her home where kept many of the works, located at 191 Robinhood, San Francisco, California. The basic foundation of Kali’s artistic success was the humanism reflected in her brush. No where throughout her works will you ever find reference to the war and brutality that she hated to her dying day.
Her husband, who was also her best friend, Henryk, passed way in 1988 in San Francisco. From that time onward Kali gradually stopped working at her art.
Later on Kali made a contact with the former director of the Polish Museum in Rappersvil Mr. Janusz S. Morkowski who was visiting his son in California. As a result of this chance meeting, Kali bequeathed in her will several pieces of her famous art work to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil.
On June 20, 1998 Kali died from a wound by a firearm discharge.
Kali’s nephew Mr. Mark Woytowicz Wyatt of Santa Rosa, California was the sole executor of Kali’s Will. Mark Woytowicz Wyatt sent to Janusz S. Morkowski a list of seventy nine (79) pieces of Kali’s art. He and Morkowski maintained a very close contact.
Listed below is the original data of Kali’s art bequeathed to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil.
Please click below to see the detailed list (PDF Format).
In Rappersvil Morkowski ordered that special boxes be made for all the art pieces and shipped to California for packing up the art work for shipment back to Rappersvil. Unfortunately not single piece of Kali’s art ever reached Rappersvil since the date the Will was processed.
All of Kali’s art (see list above) was presented on the Internet on the website www.kaligallery.com. From this website was taken pictures all the Kali art work that can be seen below. All the Kali art work was removed from the website (www.kaligallery.com). The website was taken down by the owner even though the website had been paid up through 19-AUG-2010.
On the link below you may still find Mark Wyatt as the registrant of the Kaligallery.com www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/kaligallery.com
On link www.cafepress.com/kaligallery you find that someone sells tee shirts with printed pictures of Kali. According to copyright law the use of publishing rights and any profit there from belong to the Polish Museum at Rappersvil.
On the link www.najmici.net/malarstwo_kali.htm we find a text in English about Kali art that was supposed to be in the Polish Museum from the time when Janusz S. Morkowski was director.
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We informed Mr. Piotr Mojski Chairman Polish Cultural Foundation "Libertas" Schloss Rapperswil about our discovery. He is responsible to protect any gift or donation coming to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil.
Our letter remains without any substantive response. After we sent our letter Piotr Mojski gave an order to Polish Museum not to provide any information to anyone as to what happened with the gift of Hanna Gordzialkowska-Weynerowska- Kali.
Probably Mr. Mojski thinks that rumors about the sexual overtones of Kali art are true and he would like to protect employees of the Museum from accusations of propagating pornography. In this way he thinks he can be free of the problem and keep a clear conscience.
After a thorough review of all Kali art we have a different opinion. Predominating is Kali’s humanism in art thus creating the contrast and texture. Under Kali’s brush, shadows are made to perfection and become a great attribute of her paintings. We do not see in Kali art any sexual accents. In our opinion Piotr Mojski's handling of his neighbor and friend is a very problematic matter when it comes to holding back.
We believe that in Rapperswil there should be set up a Special Commission to investigate this whole matter. For this job we suggest the very energetic Mr. Max Berti or the director of the Polish Museum in Rapperswil Ms Anna Buchmann.
The ineffective Mr. Piotr Mojski would not be the man for this job.
Every interested reader of this article should get his or her own impression by viewing Kali’s art works.
If you have any information about missing Kali art please contact Polish Muzeum in Rapperswil, director Polish Museum in Rapperswil (www.muzeum-polskie.org) a.buchmann@muzeum-polskie.org or our web admin@rapperswil-castle.com You may also contact Piotr Mojski, Chairman Polish Cultural Foundation "Libertas" Schloss Rapperswil p.mojski@muzeum-polskie.org
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Art of Hanna
Weynerowska Kali.
Please click below to see pieces of Kali's art (PDF Format).
Details of the art Hanna Weynerowska Kali.
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