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. Waldemar is also a film maker of television arts documentaries and the Director of ZCZ Films.
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 j...
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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. Waldemar is also a film maker of television arts documentaries and the Director of ZCZ Films.
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.
After studying History of Art at Manchester University, Januszczak became art critic – and then arts editor – of The Guardian. In 1990 he...
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