Andrzej Tomaszewski
Andrzej Stanisław Tomaszewski (26 January 1934 – 25 October 2010) was a Polish historian of art and culture, architect, urban planner and archaeologist. He was investigator of medieval architecture and art in Poland and abroad (mainly in Hungary, Belgium and Italy). He was considered one of the most important and influential international scientists in the preservation and conservation of cultural heritage.
Biography
Tomaszewski was born on 26 January 1934 in Warsaw. In 1962 he graduated in Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology with a dissertation about landscape architecture and preservation of historical sites.
In 1967 he earned his Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Medieval Archaeology. Soon after he began a research period in Rome, at the Università La Sapienza, under the tutorship of professor Guglielmo de Angelis d'Ossat. During this period, he attended an
Professional activity
He expanded the conservation projects at the
Functions
As a valued scientific collaborator, he maintained lively contacts with numerous academic centres in Europe. In the years 1988–1992 he was the General Director of
In 1984–1993 he had relevant functions in
Since 1999 he participated in the activities of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation (Florence, Italy) promoting intercultural dialogue between Central-Eastern Europe and Western countries, as President of the Polish Board of Experts of the Foundation. In co-operation with the Foundation he led and chaired the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration until his departure. In the period 2003–2009 he was President of the Polish National Committee of ICOMOS.
He was also the Polish delegate to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee and was a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Cultural Heritage. He was a member of the International Council of the International Cultural Centre in Kraków, a member of the Scientific Programme Council of Denkmal – The European Trade Fair for Conservation, Restoration and Old Building Renovation in Leipzig. Since 2009 he was a vice-president of PKN ICOMOS and president of the International Council of Museums ICOM.
Activity in the field of Dialogue Among Cultures
For many years he was involved in Polish-German collaboration in the protection and conservation of historical monuments. He initiated the creation of the Working Group of Polish and German Art Historians, and the creation of the German-Polish Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural Monuments. He was member of the Board of International Experts of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation in Florence, Italy.
Publications
Tomaszewski completed, in Poland and abroad, more than 300 works and publications of research in medieval architecture, and the theory of preservation and conservation of cultural heritage.
Honors
- 1999 - Honorary citizenship of Bova City (Italy)
- 2002 - Honorary citizenship of Jawor City (Poland)
- 2003 - Georg Dehio Prize(de:Georg-Dehio-Kulturpreis)[1]
- 2010 - Kronenberg Foundation Aleksander Gieysztor Prize
- 2010 - Jan Zachwatowicz Prize
- 2011 - "Anfiteatro Andrzej Tomaszewski" - amphitheater in Florence, Italy, entitled to the memory by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation.[2]
References
- ^ "Nagroda Kulturalna im Georga Dehio dla prof. Andrzeja Tomaszewskiego" (in Polish). Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ "Life Beyond Tourism". Archived from the original on 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2011-06-20.