Waldemar Januszczak
Acting · Born Jan 12, 1954 · Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Polish refugees who had arrived in England after the Second World War. After studying history of art at the University of Manchester, Januszczak became an art critic – and then arts editor – of The Guardian. In 1990 he was appointed head of arts at the UK's Channel 4 television and in 1992 he became art critic for The Sunday Times. He has been voted Critic of the Year twice by the Press Association. Januszczak has been described as "a passionate art lover, art critic and writer. His presentation style is casual but informed, enthusiastic, evocative and humorous. He bumbles about on our TV screens, doing for art what David Attenborough has done for the natural world," and someone who acts out of "a refusal to present art as elitist in any way. He makes it utterly accessible and understandable."
Directed
Art's Wildest Movement: Mannerism
202410.0
Waldemar Januszcak: My Ukrainian Journey
2022
Handmade in Bolton
2019
Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman
20173.0
Holbein: Eye of the Tudors
20157.0
Rubens: An Extra Large Story
2015
The Dark Ages: An Age of Light
20128.0
The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution
201110.0
William Dobson: The Lost Genius of Baroque
2011
The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson
20118.0
Ugly Beauty
2010
Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art
20095.3
Sickert vs Sargent
2007
Travels with My Camera: The Happy Dictator
2007
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Full Story
2006
The Michelangelo Code: Lost Secrets of the Sistine Chapel
2005
Gauguin: The Full Story
200310.0
