About the Author

Peter Pininski is an art historian and was working at the National Museum in Warsaw when General Jaruzelski imposed Martial Law in 1981. Returning to Poland upon the fall of communism, for over a decade Peter Pininski has been living in Warsaw with his son and is a director of the Lanckoronski Foundation of Geneva, the Ciechanowiecki Foundation at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, and a member of the supervisory board of the Polish National Investment Fund Octava.