Mieczysław Porębski (31 March 1921 – 10 September 2012) was a Polish art historian, critic and theorist.
Biography In 1938 he started to study art history at the Jagiellonian University. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the World War II. During the Nazi occupation, he attended the School of Artistic Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule) and collaborated with Tadeusz Kantor's underground theatre. In 1944, he was arrested for underground activities. He was imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.
From 1950 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. From 1952 to 1957 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine . From 1970 he was a professor at the Jagiellonian University. From 1974 he was a curator at the National Museum in Kraków. In 1990 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tadeusz Różewicz dedicated to him the poem Nożyk profesora (2001).
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Awards Gold Cross of Merit (22 July 1952) Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (19 January 1955) International critics' prize at the Venice Biennale (1956) Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1991) Kazimierz Wyka Award (1995) Kraków Book of the Month Award (September 2002) Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture (2011)
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