Plečnik Collection

Contact

Plečnikova zbirka

Karunova 4 and 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.mgml.si/plecnikova-zbirka/o-plecnikovi-zbirki/

info@mgml.si

Phone386 (0) 1 280 1600

Managed byMuseum and Galleries of Ljubljana

 Municipality of Ljubljana

Plečnik Collection, some objects from the master's studio, 2011.

From 1972 until 2010 the Plečnik Collection represented an important department of the Museum of Architecture and Design. Now managed by the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana), the collection is located at a separate location in the Plečnik House in Trnovo, where Jože Plečnik lived from 1921 until his death in 1957.

The collection consists of Plečnik's original work and furniture, his library, his drawing tools, and his personal belongings. The original artefacts of Jože Plečnik encompass a large archive of sketches, plans, photographs, and models made of wood, clay, and plaster, as well as Plečnik's correspondence and his student work. The main part of the collection is on display in the cylindrical annex of the house, constructed between 1923 and 1925 by the architect himself. The Plečnik House comprises a complex of two houses, and a garden with a lapidary, which all form a part of the Plečnik Collection as well.

The renovations of the Plečnik House and its surroundings lasted for two years, the Plečnik collection together with a permanent exhibition and a study centre is on view end of September 2015.

Background

The Plečnik Collection department was established along with the Architecture Museum in 1972, to focus on the preservation of Plečnik's estate, yet it was opened to public in 1974, side by side with the Plečnik House.

The role of the department is to preserve the existent material as well as to acquire the new, to explore the period and circumstances in which the master lived and worked, and to educate, present and promote the work of Jože Plečnik.

See also

• Plečnik House
• Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
• Museum of Architecture and Design

External links

• Plečnik Collection website
• Curator's article about the collection
• Virtual Museum of Plečnik's work
• Jože Plečnik on Wikipedia

Gallery

Portrait of Jože Plečnik, 1933

Plečnik House in 2012, before the renovation works that were accomplished in September 2015, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana

The interior of Jože Plečnik's studio in the year of the master's death in 1957.

Plečnik Collection, work table in Jože Plečnik's master's studio, 1957. Photo from Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana documentation/Plečnik Collection.

Plečnik Collection, some objects from the master's studio, 2011.

Plečnik Collection, some objects from the master's studio, 2011.

Drawing utensils preserved in situ at the Plečnik House, 2015.

Plečnik received guests in the small room panelled with wood on the ground floor. Renovated room in 2015

Plečnik House, reception room detail, 2015

Architectural design of the cylindrical extension of Plečnik House, Karunova street 4, Ljubljana, 1923

Jože Plečnik, standing in front of the cylindrical extension of his house in Trnovo, 1926. Photo by Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana documentation/Plečnik Collection.

Winter garden at Plečnik House, Karunova street 4, Ljubljana, 1923

The renovated complex (designed by Arrea Architecture) of the two houses at Karunova Street with the Plečnik Collection in situ, a new permanent exhibition on Jože Plečnik and a study centre, 2015.

Renovated Plečnik House, cylindrical annex, 2015

The entry porch in Plečnik House, with the master's collection of sculptures and spolia, 2015. Photo by Matevž Paternoster/Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.

The architect Jože Plečnik moved to a single-storey house at Karunova Street 4 in Ljubljana's Trnovo district in 1921, and extended it with a cylindrical tower in 1924. Plečnik House exterior, renovated in 2015. Photo by Andrej Peunik/Museum and Galleries of ljubljana

Renovated Plečnik House, house front, 2015

The authentic interiors are preserved just as Plečnik created them, with his own original design of furniture and a wealth of small objects. Renovated Plečnik House, 2015

Plečnik House, new entrance, 2015

The bedroom and work room of master architect Jože Plečnik was situated in the circular tower. A view of the renovated room, 2015.

The renovated complex of the Plečnik House in 2015.

The Plečnik House contains the artist's valuable original furniture and personal objects, renovated interior, 2015.

Plečnik House, renovated winter garden interior, 2015

The entry porch was both a reception room and a lapidary. Renovated Plečnik House, 2015.

Renovated Plečnik House with the garden, 2015.

During the war Plečnik moved his work desk from the first floor into his bedroom, where it stayed until his death in 1957. Restored room in 2015.