Katedra Historii Sztuki Nowożytnej Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II. Zarys dziejów
The Department of the History of Modern Art in the Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II. An Outline of History

Summary/Abstract: The history of the Department of the History of Modern Art in the Catholic University of Lublin reach as far back as 1945. It was then that Prof. Marian Morelowski arrived from Lublin in Vilnius, and in the third trimester of the academic year 1944/45 established a Department of the History of Art at KUL. In the same year he employed Antoni Mas´lin´ ski (MA) as an assistant and then Piotr Bohdziewicz (PhD) as a vice-professor. Although the whole history of art is taught here, the Department has specialised since its beginning in modern art. Prof. Morelowski had written (before the war) important works on Vilnius Baroque and – no matter that in Lublin he was also interested in the history of art from other epochs – he was well disposed towards modern art. The other two workers, also previously linked with Vilnius, were almost exclusively occupied with Baroque (see P. Bohdziewicz’s monumental book Zagadnienie formy w architekturze baroku [The Question of Form in the Architecture of the Baroque], Lublin 1961). Master’s theses written at the Department of the History of Art was generally devoted to the Polish art of the 16th-18th centuries (in particular the Lublin region). (...)

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