What is Andrzej Ciechanowiecki?
[[File:Portrait of Andrzej Ciechanowiecki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Portrait of Andrzej Ciechanowiecki by Andrzej Okinczyc - October 2009]] '''Andrew Stanislaus (Andrzej Stanisław) Ciechanowiecki''' (28 September 1924 – 2 November 2015) was a [[Polish people|Polish]] art historian, philanthropist, art collector, and antique dealer. He is the founder of the Ciechanowiecki Foundation at the [[Royal Castle in Warsaw]] (1986). He was an Honorary Professor of the [[Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw]] and a member of the [[Polish Academy of Sciences]]. He was honored with the [[Order of the White Eagle (Poland)|Order of the White Eagle]] in 1998, Grand Cross of [[Polonia Restituta]], war medals, [[Gloria Artis]] Gold Medal and other awards. Ciechanowiecki died in [[London]] at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/227324,Patron-of-the-arts-and-WWII-resistance-veteran-Ciechanowiecki-dies|title=Patron of the arts and WWII resistance veteran Ciechanowiecki dies|work=Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy|access-date=2015-11-03|archive-date=2015-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105050437/http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/227324,Patron-of-the-arts-and-WWII-resistance-veteran-Ciechanowiecki-dies|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ciechanowiecki, Andrzej}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Art historians]] [[Category:Polish philanthropists]] [[Category:Polish historians]] [[Category:Polish academics]] [[Category:Polish artists]] {{bio-stub}}