Professor Teresa Maria Róża Grzybkowska

Art historian
Specialities: modern European (including Polish) painting and sculpture; the art of Gdańsk, the work of Jacek Malczewski, museology, art collecting, musical motifs in modern art.

Education, scientific degrees and titles:
- MA, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 1963
- PhD, Warsaw University 1974
- Post-doctoral degree ("habilitation"), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 1986
- Functional professor, Gdańsk University 1992
- Titular professor 1997

Author of about 170 publications including 10 books:
Andrzej Stech, Exhibition Catalogue 1973
Andrzej Stech, a Gdańsk Painter. Warsaw 1979
The Golden Age of Gdańsk Painting Against the Backdrop of the City's Artistic Culture. Warsaw 1989
Eros in Polish Art. Warsaw 1993
The Museums of Gdańsk. Warsaw 1996
Malczewski's Mythology. Cracow 1996
The World of Jacek Malczewski's Pictures. Warsaw 1996
The Artists and Patricians of Gdańsk. Warsaw 1996. Gdańsk - Wrocław 2000
Art and Politics. The Grand Council Hall of the Main Town Hall of the City of Gdańsk. Warsaw 2003

1989-2000 Founder and head of the History of Art Unit at Gdańsk University
2000-2002 Vice-director of the National Museum, Gdańsk

Awards:
- the Professor Szczęsny Detloff award of the Art Historians' Association 1972 and 1974
- award of the Ministry of Culture and Art for the exhibition Aurea Porta Rzeczypospolitej 1997 (National Museum, Gdańsk) and Gdańsk dla Rzeczypospolitej 2004 (City of Gdańsk History Museum)
- Member of the Art Historians' Association, Gdańsk Scientific Society, Polish Heraldic Society, Historians of Netherlandish Art (USA), International Council of Museums.

Founder of history of art studies at Gdańsk University in 1997 and the journal "Porta Aurea". Annals of the History of Art Unit, Gdańsk University (5 volumes have now been published).
Organiser of seven scientific conferences devoted to Gdańsk art 1992-2002.

Author of several exhibitions:
- Andrzej Stech, a Gdańsk Painter. National Museums in Gdańsk and Warsaw and the Museum of Middle Pomerania in Słupsk 1973;
- Malczewski's Mythology, the Czartoryski Museum, Cracow 1996; Aurea Porta Rzeczypospolitej, National Museum, Gdańsk 1997;
- Sword and Kimono, City of Gdańsk History Museum 2003;
- Gdańsk for the Republic, City of Gdańsk History Museum 2004.

Professor T. M. R. Grzybkowska organised two interdisciplinary scientific conferences at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music: Music in Jacek Malczewski's Pictures 2004 (proceedings published in 2005) and Light, Sound, Picture in Polish 20th century art 2005.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music