The Regaining of the Academic Status by the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the time of the “Decade of Architects”

Authors

  • Michał Pilikowski ASP, Kraków

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/sts.3530

Keywords:

Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Józef Gałęzowski, Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment

Abstract

In the first years after Poland regained independence in 1918, a special place in the history of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow was taken as a result of the efforts to maintain the status of a university by the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. These efforts were led by rectors-architects, Józef Gałęzowski and Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, who headed the Academy of Fine Arts from 1919-1929. The Academy’s aspirations encountered obstacles raised by the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment. Subsequent drafts of the statute were ignored, and the amendments to the relevant laws favorable for the Academy of Fine Arts were postponed. The battle for the award of the academic status to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow became a nation-wide legal dispute concerning the competences of the parliament and the interpretation of the constitution. The whole affair was completed on 16 July 1924 when the educational act concerning tertiary education was properly amended (the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow was attached to the list of schools with full academic status).

The problem considered in this article was based on source materials obtained from various polish archives and press reports from discussed period.

The article, which presents a fragment of the history of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow during one of the most turbulent periods in Poland, may be treated as a contribution to the biographies of the outstanding architects Józef Gałęzowski and Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz.

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Published

2020-01-20

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Historia

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