About Ada Polak
Lived 1914 – 2010 (aged 96). Ada Polak was a Norwegian art historian.
Ada Buch Polak (19 September 1914 – 25 October 2010) was a Norwegian art historian.
She finished her secondary education in 1933 and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1940 with the thesis Norsk Glass 1739–1753, and continued working with glass to take her doctorate in 1953 on the thesis Gammelt norsk glass.
She spent half a year as an associate professor at the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, and was then a curator at West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum) from 1942 to 1948. She was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1981. Personal life In July 1948 she married the British solicitor Alfred Laurence Polak (1900–1992), and moved to London. She died in October 2010 in London.
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Who was Ada Polak?
Norwegian art historian (1914–2010)
When was Ada Polak born?
Ada Polak was born on 19 September 1914 in Ljan.
When did Ada Polak die?
Ada Polak died on 25 October 2010 in London.
What was Ada Polak's occupation?
Ada Polak was an art historian.
What nationality was Ada Polak?
Ada Polak was Norwegian.
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