Abstract
Art history as an academic discipline and subject of academic education appeared in Poland in the second half of the nineteenth century, although an interest in the field can be traced back to the Enlightenment. The Polonization of research by other scholars led to the marginalization of Polish art history, a phenomenon which has continued almost until today. Eleven years after the establishment of the chair in Cracow, a second chair of art history was created on Polish territory in 1893, this time at Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov, the then capital of Galicia. The Second World War brought about deep political changes in Poland. Above all, the frontiers of the state shifted considerably, as a consequence of which the universities of Lvov and Vilnius no longer functioned as Polish educational institutions. Another important political change which occurred in post-war Poland was the imposition of the Communist system. Keywords:art history; Cracow; Galicia; marginalization; Poland
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