Prof. Dr. Irena Kossowska

Irena Kossowska is Full Professor of Art History at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, and at the Polish Institute of World Art Studies in Warsaw. She specializes in the field of nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual arts, art theory, and criticism. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Bogliasco Foundation, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Henry Moore Institute, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian Institution, British Academy and Warburg Institute. She has written extensively on Polish and European art, including State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918-2018 (co-authored and ed. with Agnieszka Chmielewska and Marcin Lachowski), Artistic Reconquest: Art in Interwar Poland and Europe, The Search for Cultural Identity in Eastern and Central Europe 1919-2014, Symbolism and Young Poland; Reinterpreting the Past: Traditionalist Artistic Trends in Central and Eastern Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, Bruno Schulz: El pais tenebroso; Medieval and Modern: Direct Carving in the Work of Gill and Barlach; Le Symbolisme polonaise; Polonia fin de siglo 1890-1914; The Beginnings of Polish Original Printmaking 1897-1917.