Jan Białostocki

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Jan Białostocki (Photo: 1988)

Jan Białostocki (born August 14, 1921 in Saratow , Russia , † December 25, 1988 in Warsaw ) was the best-known Polish art historian of the 20th century .

Life

During the German occupation, Białostocki studied philosophy and art history at the so-called "secret university" under Władysław Tatarkiewicz and Tadeusz Kotarbiński . From September 1944 he was imprisoned in several German concentration camps , most recently in Mauthausen , where the 11th US Armored Division liberated the prisoners on May 5, 1945.

Białostocki worked as an assistant at the Muzeum Narodowe for around ten years , and from 1956 he headed the painting gallery there. From 1945 he was also employed at the University of Warsaw , first as an assistant at the Chair of Medieval Art, then as a lecturer. In 1962 he became a professor of art history there. Long study stays and visiting professorships abroad, including in France and the USA , made him internationally known. Białostocki had been a member of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art since 1964, and since 1973 a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University . In 1981 he was awarded the Aby M. Warburg Prize of the City of Hamburg for the first time . Since 1980 he has been a corresponding member of the Saxon and Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He published mainly essays and books on art from the Renaissance to the 18th century in several languages .

Memorial plaque at the University of Warsaw

There is an obituary written by Xavier Moyssén Echeverría in the Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.

Works

  • William Hogarth . Berlin 1972.
  • Late Middle Ages and early modern times. (In the series Propylaen Art History ), Berlin 1972.
  • The Art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe. Oxford 1976.
  • From the heroic tomb to the peasant burial. Mainz 1977.
  • The peculiarity of the art of Venice. Mainz 1980.
  • Old master drawings from Polish collections. Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , Braunschweig 1981.
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini . Berlin 1981.
  • Style and iconography. Studies in art history. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1966 ( Fundus series 18), revised version Cologne 1981.
  • Dürer and the humanists. Pforzheim 1983.
  • Dürer and his Critics, 1500-1971. Baden-Baden 1986.
  • The death symbolism of the door. In: Festschrift for Erik Forssman's 70th birthday , edited by Jürg Meyer zur Capellen and Gabriele Oberreuter-Kronabel , Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-487-07940-2 , pp. 61–98.

literature

  • Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz: Artists in the Concentration Camp: an autobiographical text by Jan Białostocki. In: Kunstchronik 72/2, 2019, pp. 54–59.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Secret lessons ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sztetl.org.pl
  2. ^ Member entry by Jan Białostocki (with a link to an obituary by Willibald Sauerländer ) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 3, 2017.
  3. ^ Xavier Moyssén Echeverría : Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. Vol. XV, No. 60. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México 1988, ISSN  0185-1276 , p. 280.
personal data
SURNAME Białostocki, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Saratov , Russia
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1988
Place of death Warsaw