Michał Walicki

From 1924 to 1929, Walicki studied art history at the University of Warsaw, where he also wrote his PhD thesis.

Walicki worked at the Department of Polish Architecture of the Warsaw Technical University in 1929–1936 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1932–1939 and 1945–1949, he was awarded by the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1947.

In his younger years, the latter worked as an assistant to Walicki at the National Museum, Warsaw, and, as an unpaid assistant, also at the University of Warsaw in Walicki's Institute of Medieval Art History.

[2] In 1957, Walicki and Białostocki wrote an overview of the history of painting collecting in Poland.

[3] In 1949 Walicki was arrested and imprisoned till 1953 on the grounds of both false accusations and a fabricated evidence.