Włodzimierz Hodys – indywidualność pedagoga i animatora sztuki

Abstract

The work of Włodzimierz Hodys – the first principal of the Secondary School of Visual Arts and forms teacher of a few generations of artists in the post-war period – has become legendary in Kraków. The paper presents the role of a history of art teacher, his methods as well as skills and tools, the impact he exerted on the shaping of artistic attitudes first among pupils and then among students of the Academy of Fine Arts. Professor Hodys also manifested a great didactic passion as a populariser of many exhibitions and historical building tours. His pedagogical work during the communist era in Poland is recalled on the basis of recollections of the students and preserved archive materials.