fot. Joanna Pawłowska
Professor Andrzej Szczerski is a historian and art critic, a lecturer and former head of the museum curatorial studies programme (2005–2011) at the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University. He also lectured at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (2003) and at the University of St Andrews in the UK (2004). He has held fellowships at foreign universities and research institutes, including the University of Oxford, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, and the Università per Stranieri in Perugia. He has also received fellowships from the Lanckoroński Foundation and the Foundation for Polish Science, as well as grants from the National Science Centre and the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities. Recipient of the City of Kraków Award (1996) and the Rector’s Awards of the Jagiellonian University. In 2018, he received the annual Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the category of ‘Protection of Cultural Heritage’.
Prof. Andrzej Szczerski is the author of numerous publications, including: Modernisations. Art and Architecture in the New States of Central and Eastern Europe 1918–1939 (Łódź 2010), Four Modernities. Texts on 20th-Century Polish Art and Architecture (2015), Views of Albion, The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe (1890–1918) (2015), and Transformation. Art in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 (2018). He also curated exhibitions such as Polish Artists and British Art at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries at Wilanów Palace in 2006, Symbolism in Poland and Britain at Tate Britain in London in 2009, Modernisations 1918–1939. The Future Perfect at the Museum of Art in Łódź in 2010, The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at the Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussels in 2011, and the #heritage exhibition at the National Museum in Kraków, ‘Young Poland. An Arts and Crafts Movement’ at the William Morris Gallery in London.
From January 2016 to 31 March 2018, he served as Deputy Director for Research at the National Museum in Kraków. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Public Committee for the Restoration of Kraków’s Monuments.
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