Feliks Kopera

Feliks Kopera (born May 12, 1871 in Cracow , Austria-Hungary , † March 27, 1950 in Cracow, People's Republic of Poland ) was director of the National Museum in Cracow and an important art historian in Poland.

Life

The parents were Jan Kopera and Maria née Tokarska. Feliks attended grammar school in Cracow and studied Polish, German and French language, classical philology, philosophy, history and art history in Cracow since 1891. He became a doctor of philosophy history.

Thanks to an Kaiser Franz Josef scholarship, Kopera was able to visit the universities in Basel with Professor Heinrich Wölfflin in 1896 and in Berlin with Professors Carl Frey and Aleksander Brùckner in 1897 . He then worked at the Istituto delle Belle Arti in Venice under Heinrich Brockhaus and in the Vatican Archives in Rome . In 1898 Feliks Kopera familiarized himself with Eastern European sacred art history at the Spiritual Academy in St. Petersburg and looked for medieval Polish codices. He then traveled to Moscow , Kiev , Crimea and Constantinople and via Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary back to his homeland.

In 1900 Feliks Kopera became an assistant at the Akademia Umiejętności . In 1901 he became the new director of the National Museum in Krakow, which he remained until 1950. He also taught art history as an honorary professor at the University of Krakow. Feliks Kopera was Vice President of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow.

He published numerous works on the history of art in Poland. He also worked at the General Lexicon of Fine Arts ( Thieme-Becker ) and the Enciclopedia Italiana .

literature

• Kazimierz Buczkowski: Feliks Kopera, wspomnienie pośmiertne. In: Biuletin Historii Sztuki . Volume 14, No. 3, 1952, pp. 95-98. ( Digitized , obituary, Polish).

Web links

Commons : Feliks Kopera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Feliks Kopera Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny, detailed biography (Polish)