Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Andrzej Ciechanowiecki

Polish art historian

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1924

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 02-Nov-2015

Profession: art dealer, economist, art historian

Nationality: Poland, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Andrzej Ciechanowiecki

  • Andrew Stanislaus (Andrzej Stanislaw) Ciechanowiecki (28 September 1924 – 2 November 2015), Dabrowa Coat of Arms, was a Polish-British nobleman, diplomat, prisoner and agent of Communist Poland, economist, academic, art historian, philanthropist, art collector, antique dealer, antiquarian and exhibition curator.
  • He was considered an authority on French baroque sculpture in the second half of the 20th century.He was founder of the Ciechanowiecki Foundation at the Royal Castle in Warsaw (1986), Honorary Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Honorary Member or Life Member of many learned societies both British and Polish, FSA, member of the board of trustees of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, and member of the board of the Lanckoronski Foundation.
  • He was also a council member of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation from its establishment until July 2011, the Raczynski Foundation, and the Polish Historical and Literary Society in Paris (SHLP), chairman of the Polish-Belarusian Bilateral Commission for the Conservation of National Patrimony.
  • He was a prominent member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George.
  • His distinctions included the Order of the White Eagle (1998), Grand Cross of Polonia Restituta and war medals, the Gloria Artis Gold Medal, among other awards. While there is no doubt about his considerable academic and business achievements and his subsequent generosity in restoring some of Poland's pillaged cultural heritage, his wartime and immediate post-war activities remain unclear.
  • A lack of clarity also applies to the origins of Ciechanowiecki's restored title of "Count".

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