The Foundation team is comprised of specialists who share their knowledge and experience with dedication, enthusiasm and passion.
Chair of the Board, Eduard Petzold Foundation
Specialist in historic gardens, landscape architect. His academic focus (graduate of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, PhD from the Dresden University of Technology) has centred on nineteenth-century palace-and-park complexes in Silesia and the art of gardening during the period of the Polish–Saxon union. He is the author of more than one hundred studies and conservation reports concerning historic gardens in Poland (including: Wilanów, Belweder, Kamieniec near Kłodzko, Domanice, Duszniki-Zdrój, Moszna, Świerklaniec, Komierowo, and Muskau Park). He collaborated with the Swiss practice VOGT Landschaftsarchitekten AG (in Berlin, among others on the Lohsepark project in Hamburg) and with Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH (on the implementation of restoration works in Altdöbern). Between 2015 and 2021 he managed the gardens and the horticultural department at the Wilanów Palace. In 2021 he was appointed consultant to the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland on historic gardens at the Presidential Residences. He is an expert appointed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the field of monument protection, specialising in cultural landscapes, parks, gardens, and cemeteries.
He serves as President of the European Route of Historic Gardens (ERHG), with which he has been associated since 2017. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL) of ICOMOS, the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL) – Berlin-Brandenburg section, and the DGGL working group on historic gardens. He is also a member of the Dresden Historical Society (DGV), the German Working Group on Orangeries (AKO), and the Lower Silesian branch of the Association of Monument Conservators (SKZ).
Specialist in historic gardens and museologist. A graduate in Landscape Architecture from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, he has also completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Management at the Warsaw School of Economics, Cultural Diplomacy at the Jagiellonian University, and Museology at the University of Warsaw. He has collaborated with design studios and institutions such as the National Institute of Cultural Heritage and the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław. He is the author of the project Citri et Aurea, carried out in cooperation with the Uffizi Galleries – Boboli Gardens in Florence, as well as conservation documentation for historic landscapes, including residential parks in Mroczków Gościnny, Jakubowice, and Włostów, and the Krzycka Promenade in Wrocław. He is a doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School of the Cracow University of Technology. He is also a member of the team at the Sztuka krajobrazu – Joanna Kowalska design studio.
He serves as Secretary of the Scientific Committee of the European Route of Historic Gardens (ERHG) and Secretary of the Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He is also a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Network of European Landscape Architecture Archives (NELA), the German Working Group on Orangeries (AKO), the Lower Silesian branch of the Association of Monument Conservators (SKZ), and the Polish Association of Landscape Architecture (SAK).