The Research Centre for Armenian Culture in Poland
within the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

and the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Art in Kraków would like to invite you to participate in an online scientific conference entitled Axentowicz. Kraków. Armenia,
which will be held on November 30, 2020 at 5.00 pm.

The conference is devoted to Armenian and Cracovian motifs in the life and work of the eminent Polish painter Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the academic year 1910/1911, whose ancestors came to Poland from Armenia.

The conference is sponsored by the City of Kraków.

Conference and visual materials will be available on RCACP’s FB profile  “https://www.facebook.com/armenopolonia

Programme:

Welcome ‒ Prof. Dr. hab. Jan Ostrowski, President of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Introduction ‒ Prof. Dr. hab. Andrzej Bednarczyk, rector of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts

Axentowicz and Kraków: a multimedia presentation – Marcin Banaś and Jakub Osiecki.

Raumkunst by Teodor Axentowicz – Dr Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska (Kraków)

Axentowicz as the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków – Michał Pilikowski (Kraków)

Axentowicz exhibitions: Yerevan – Sopot – Stalowa Wola – Anna Król (Kraków)

The Armenian Pedigree of the Axentowicz Family ‒ Dr. hab. Andrzej A. Zięba (Kraków)

Armenian Themes in the Paintings of Teodor Axentowicz ‒ Dr Jakub Osiecki (Kraków)

Reflections on Teodor Axentowicz and the Reception of his Works in Armenia (paper in Armenian) ‒ Gagik Parsamyan (Gdańsk)

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