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Previous research on Leopold Bauer's work has already identified countless inspirations from various cultural circles and different eras. However, you can still find new ones. Among them, an important place is occupied by those from the circle of ancient Egyptian art. Textbooks, compendiums and exclusive albums published in the 19th century presented a huge wealth of forms used more and more boldly in European art. Among them, there is an almost ready-made model of the Breda & Weinstein department store in Opava. A closer circle of inspiration, so far marginalized in research, is the art of Silesia, the entire Silesia, and not only its Czech part in the 20th century. This is especially true of the inspiration for the Opava church of St. Hedwig of Silesia, which Bauer found in Trzebnica. An unnoticed element of the church in Opava is a reference to the Templum Salomonis topos. The inspirations indicated in the article allow us to interpret the motives behind Leopold Baur's actions differently than before. They went far beyond the professional strategy indicated so far or the all-too-locally understood patriotism, limited to Czech Silesia. Bauer's artistic legacy says more about this than his written statements. Her reading is, among other things, a matter of going beyond the thought patterns of contemporary researchers determined by the development of art history; formulas that were not Leopold Bauer's formulas.