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Waldemar Januszczak
English journalist
Waldemar Januszczak | |
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| Born | (1954-01-12) 12 January 1954 (age 71) Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Occupation(s) | Art critic and television presenter |
Waldemar Januszczak (born 12 January 1954) is a Polish-British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter.
Waldemar Januszczak - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in 1992, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.
Life
Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Polish refugees who had arrived in England after the Second World War.
In Poland his father had been a policeman in Sanok,[1] a job which included exposing Communists.
In the UK he worked as a railway carriage cleaner, but died, aged 57, when a train ran over him at Basingstoke railway station. His widow, then aged 33, found work as a dairymaid. Waldemar was one year old at the time.[2]
The young Januszczak attended Wyndham Lewis's big mistake - Waldemar Januszczak RAXYR