Andrzej Ciechanowiecki

Who is Andrzej Ciechanowiecki?

Andrew Stanislaus Ciechanowiecki was born on 28 September 1924 in Warsaw, Poland. Ciechanowiecki was an art historian, philanthropist, art collector, antique dealer, antiquarian, founder of the Ciechanowiecki Foundation at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Honorary Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Honorary Member or Life Member of many learned societies both foreign and Polish, FSA, member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, member of the Board of the Lanckoroński Foundation, and was a Council Member of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation but was voted out on the 12 July 2011 and he has nothing more to do with the Foundation, the Raczyński Foundation, and the Polish Historical & Literary Society in Paris, chairman of the Polish-Belarusian Bilateral Commission for the Conservation of the National Patrimony, prominent member of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta. He also decorated with the Order of the White Eagle, Grand Cross of Polonia Restituta, war medals, Gloria Artis Gold Medal and other awards.