Józef Edward Dutkiewicz (1903-1968)

• Authors: Kalinowski Lech

Title variants

EN

JÓZEF EDWARD DUTKIEWICZ (1903-1968)

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

Jozef Edward Dutkiewicz has been distinguished from among art historians and conservators of the generation of the 20th century by the versatility of his theoretical and practical skills and his artistic and scientific interests. He formed his life around the fine arts: as an artist painter and as an art historian, as a conservator of monuments involved in the field of the protection of cultural property and as a conservator of paintings working at the easel and on scaffolding, as organizer of the Department of Conservation of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and as a teacher of the younger generation of art conservators, as co-creator of the Commitee of Theory and History of Art at the Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow and as author of publications on historical and contemporary art. He chose his main profession to be that of conservator,serving in 1939 as conservator of monuments successively in Warsaw, Łuck and Lublin. The Lublin years (1936-1939) were particularly fruitful, when he initiated and carried out for the first time the restoration of monuments of the city centre of Lublin, Zamość and Kazimierz on the Vistula. During the war, employed as a painter conservator at the Muzeum in Tarnow, he worked on medieval paintings and sculpture. After the war, he organized the Museum of the Tarnow District from collections of old manors. He also took part in the protection of monuments in Silesia. In 1946- 1951, he was conservator of the monumente of the Cracow voivodeship and the city of Cracow. In 1948 he established and headed the editing of the conservation magazine "Ochrona Zabytkow" (Monument Protection), with the exception of the interval 1951 -1961. From 1949 he gave lectures on the theory of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he was shortly appointed associate of conservation and where he organized and headed as dean the Department of Conservation of Works of Art, in the newly established Academy of Art (transformed in 1956 into the Academy of Fine Arts). After 1960 he became dean of the School of Conservation of Works of Art at the Department of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts and this post he held, with the exception of the academic years 1956-1957 and 1960-1961, until his tragic death in 1968. From 1951 he headed the Institute of Conservation of Wall Paintings, and in the years 1962-1965 he was also head of the Institute of Conservation of Easel Paintings and Polychrome Wood Sculpture. He manifested his scientific approach to matters of conservation of works of art in the establishment and expansion of the servicing chemical and physical workshop and by drawing into cooperation representatives of the Cracow Technical University and the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy. He changed work as conservator for team work subordinated to the requirements of scientific cognition and calling for laboratories of the highest technical level. In all his activities Dutkiewicz was an authority. His sudden departure has been felt as a painful loss among conservationists and art historians. His vision, looking into the future, has remained a basic canon of conservation conduct, in spite of the changing aesthetic assumptions.

Keywords

PL

historia sztuki; konserwacja; malarstwo

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1990
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 189-191

Dates

published

1990

Contributors

author

Kalinowski Lech

• prof. dr, ASP — Kraków

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247