Director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. After completing a course in art history, he received a master's degree from the faculty of history at the University of Warsaw. He obtained his PhD in 1972. After obtaining a postdoctoral degree at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, where he was employed from 1983, in 1990 he became an art history professor at the same institute. Previously, after his graduation, he had worked at the National Museum in Warsaw for 20 years, and was its deputy director in 1975-82. In 1980-81 he was active in the Solidarity trade union's Culture Committee in the Mazovia region. He was fired from his job in 1982.

   From the very start of work on rebuilding the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Andrzej Rottermund was involved in the project: he was a member of the Architectural Commission from 1973, and curator of the Royal Castle Branch in 1973-76. He was appointed deputy director of the Royal Castle in 1987, became Poland's deputy minister of culture and art in 1991, and has been the director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw since November 1991. He became a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in May 2002. He is a member of the Association of Art Historians, of which he was the president in 1987-91, a member of the Polish National Committee of ICOM, which he chaired from 1990 to 1996, chairman of the Council of Museums affiliated to the minister of culture, a member of the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship's editorial board. He has written over 100 books, papers, and essays. He was the initiator and organizer of numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including Land of the Winged Horsemen. Art in Poland 1572-1764 in the United States (1999-2000), Thesauri Poloniae, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2002), and Semper Polonia. L’art en Pologne des Lumières au romantisme, Dijon (2005).

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