Waldemar januszczak biography of abraham

Waldemar Januszczak (born 12 January 1954) is a British art critic. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he now writes for The Sunday Times, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.

Januszczak is also a film maker of television arts documentaries and the Director of ZCZ Films.

Waldemar januszczak biography of abraham

Waldemar januszczak biography of abraham

Vincent, the Full Story on Channel 4

ZCZ Films

The Michelangelo Code: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel on Channel 4

Links to some art analyses by Waldemar Januszczak

Life

Waldemar Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire to Polish refugees who had arrived in Britain after World War II. His father, a policeman in Poland, whose job had included exposing Communists, found work as a railway carriage cleaner and died, aged 57, when a train ran over him at Basingstoke station.

His widow, then aged 33, found work as a dairymaid. Waldemar was one year old.

The young Januszczak attended Divine Mercy College, a school for the children of Polish refugees which the Congregation of Marian Fathers had set up at Fawley Court, Henley-on-Thames.

Career

After studying History of Art at Manchester University, Januszczak beca