George Zarnecki

George Zarnecki (* Jerzy Zarnecki September 12, 1915 in Stara Osota, Ukraine, † 8 September 2008 in London) was a British art historian. He specialized in Romanesque (especially sculptures of the Romanesque in the UK) at the Courtauld Institute of Art

Life

Zarnecki was the son of a railway engineer (originally a Polish Jew who converted to Catholicism ) and a Russian mother. Zarnecki studied art history in Krakow with the conclusion of 1938. He was briefly an assistant at the University of Krakow, before he and his parents fled to Bucharest with the German invasion of Poland. He went to Italy and France, where he joined the French army as a Polish volunteer and 1940, the Croix de Guerre received. He was a prisoner of war, was able to flee to Spain in 1943 and went to England, where he joined the Polish army in exile. In 1945 he married. About Anthony Blunt he came to the Courtauld Institute, where he was responsible for the photographic archive and 1950 beei Fritz Saxl has a doctorate in English Romanesque (Regional Schools of English Sculpture in the Twelfth Century ). In 1959 he was Reader at the University of London, Courtauld Institute where the was attached. In 1961 he was deputy director of the Courtauld Institute ( under Anthony Blunt ) and 1963 professor. As Blunt in 1974 gave the management of the Institute, he was not applied for the succession, because he wanted to devote himself to research ( under Blunt cut him a lot of the administrative work ). In 1982, he went into retirement.

1960/61, he was a visiting professor at Oxford ( Slade Professor of Fine Art ) in 1966 at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1984 he organized an exhibition of Romanesque art in England at the Hayward Gallery.

He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1968. In 1970 he was CBE.

Writings

  • Romanesque, Belser Style History, 1970
  • English Romanesque Sculpture, 1066-1140. London: A. Tiranti, 1951 ( developed from his dissertation )
  • English Romanesque Sculpture, 1140-1210. London: A. Tiranti, 1953 * English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century. New York: Philosophical Library, 1957
  • The Early Sculpture of Ely Cathedral. London: A. Tiranti. 1958
  • With Denis Grivot: Gislebertus: Sculptor of Autun. New York: Orion Press, 1961
  • The Monastic Achievement. New York: McGraw -Hill, 1972
  • Romanesque Art New York: Universe Books, 1971
  • Art of the Medieval World: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, the Sacred Arts. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1975.
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