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Obituary

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Copyright (c) 2017 Andrzej Rottermund (Autor)
Obituary
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2017 Andrzej Rottermund (Autor)
Prof. Dr. Hab. Andrzej Rottermund is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), member of the Monuments Protection Board of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, member of the Academic Board of the PAN Institute of Art and the PAN Committee of Art Sciences. He sits on museum boards of the Royal Wawel Castle, the National Museum in Poznań and the Royal Łazienki in Warsaw, among others. He is a permanent representative of Poland at the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), and a member of Polish ICOM and ICOMOS committees. He previously served as the director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw (1991–2015), deputy director of the National Museum in Warsaw (1975–82), Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and Art (1991), member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum in Warsaw (2008–13), and head of the Polish UNESCO Committee. He is a researcher of 16th- to 19th-century European art and museologist. Between 1971 and 1984 he was involved in the reconstruction of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. He is the author of concepts and scripts of numerous national and international exhibitions on Polish art, culture and the history of collecting. His published works include Katalog rysunków architektonicznych ze zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie [The catalogue of architectural drawings from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw] (1970), Zamek Królewski w Warszawie [Royal Castle in Warsaw] (1971), Zamek Warszawski w epoce Oświecenia. Rezydencja monarsza – funkcje i treści [The Warsaw Castle in the Enlightenment, a royal residence – its functions and contents] (1989), J.-L.-N. Durand a polska architektura 1. połowy XIX wieku [J.-L.-N. Durand and Polish architecture of the 1st half of the 19th century] (1990) and the dissertation: Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto, Von Venedig nach Warschau (2005), Muzea – Perspektywy [Museums – Outlooks] (2015).