Open AccessWITOLD DOBROWOLSKI (1939–2019)
Author(s) -
Jerzy Żelazowski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.2476
Subject(s) - exhibition , period (music) , civilization , egyptology , pottery , art , visual arts , documentation , sculpture , dozen , art history , classics , history , ancient history , archaeology , arithmetic , mathematics , computer science , programming language , aesthetics
The recollections of Prof. W. Dobrowolski focusmainly on his activity at the National Museum in Warsaw(1960–2011) and his scholarly accomplishments. Thecreator of modern Etruscology in Poland in the 1960s, hecontributed greatly to promoting knowledge of Etruscancivilization among Polish society. He won his internationalfame with the documentation of Etruscan tombs and theirpainterly decoration in the modern period. Furthermore,W. Dobrowolski was an unquestioned expert in Greekpottery, particularly from the Vilnius and Gołuchówcollections kept at the National Museum in Warsaw, and wascapable of applying his deepened iconographic analyses tomuseum displays. His passion being Greek art as a universaland topical model for artistic and esthetical values, he wasgreatly committed to promoting ancient art in Poland as anorganizer of several dozen exhibitions at local museums,author of numerous encyclopaedic entries and chapters inart history textbooks. Moreover, he authored and curatedsome big and important exhibitions at the NationalMuseum in Warsaw, where he also had a significant impacton the permanent Ancient Art Gallery which existed until2011. Dobrowolski’s studies in Polish collecting of ancienthistorical pieces in the 18th and 19th centuries paved him theway to important analyses of the presence of the Antiquityin European and Polish culture that were the academic focusin the last period of his life.