ARTURO COLORADO CASTELLARY
Research Advisor – Plundered Cultural Heritage | MadridProfessional experience
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Complutense University of Madrid / Faculty of Information Sciences
August 4, 2015 - Current Events
Heritage Management and Research in the 21st Century, from the UCM and the UPM
FULL PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY
Complutense University of Madrid / Faculty of Information Sciences
October 1, 2006 - Present
PROFESSOR. APPOINTMENT OF RECTOR
SEK University, Segovia
September 27, 2002 - September 30, 2006
Full Professor at the University. Position funded by the University's own program (Program for offering positions with research as the objective)
Complutense University of Madrid / Faculty of Information Sciences
April 27, 1994 - On voluntary leave from September 26, 2002
ASSOCIATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Complutense University of Madrid / Faculty of Information Sciences
December 22, 1988 - April 26, 1994
Tenured Professor of Secondary Education on Secondment to France for Six Years (Through Public Merit-Based Competition of 1979)
Ministry of Education and Science/National Institute of Distance Learning High School
Head of Studies of the consular district of Lyon
October 1, 1979 - September 1985
Research at foreign universities
ECOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PARIS
"Artistic plunder during the Civil War and the Francoist recovery during the post-war period in France"
01/04/2017 - 30/06/2017
NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION ON PLASTIC ARTS OF MEXICO
“Exile and cultural heritage in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War and its fate in the post-war period”
01/04/2019 - 30/06/2019
Academic Background
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND LETTERS, HISTORY SECTION
University of Alcalá, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters "Successful cum laude"
Título de la Tesis: El Comité Internacional para el salvamento de los Tesoros de Arte Españoles (Figueras - Ginebra, 1939)
DIPLOMA IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Diplomatic School of Spain (Madrid)
DIPLÔME D'ÉTUDES APPROFONDIES (D.E.A) - LITTÉRATURE ET CIVILISATION FRANÇAISES - LETTRES ET ARTS
Université de Lyon II, U.E.R. Lettres et Civilization Classiques et Modernes
CERTIFICATE OF PEDAGOGICAL APTITUDE
Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of Valencia
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Letters (History Section)
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Valencia
Publications
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2021): Art, spoils of war. Plunder and diaspora in the Francoist post-war period. Madrid: Editorial Cátedra.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2019). “Introduction to the second edition. A pioneering investigation” in The cultural property policy of the Republican Government during the Spanish Civil War. Madrid: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities / CSIC, pp. 7-13.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2018): Cultural heritage, Civil War and post-war period. Madrid: Fragua.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2018): Art, revenge and propaganda. The Francoist instrumentalization of heritage during the Second World War. Madrid: Editorial Cátedra.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2014): “The Spanish premessa: evacuation, international intervention and salvage of artistic heritage during the civil war” in Museums and monuments in war 1939-45 - London – Parigi – Rome – Berlin. Città del Vaticano: Edizioni Musei Vaticani, pp. 27-55.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2014): “L’Accord de Figueras: son contexte, le Comité international et sa mise en œuvre” en Le patrimoine culturel, cible des conflits armés. De la guerre civile espagnole aux guerres du 21e siècle. Bruselas: Bruylant, Bruxelles, pp. 21-62.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2010): “Francoist policy on heritage in the first post-war period” in Heritage, Civil War and Post-War Period. Madrid: Complutense University of Madrid, Publications Service, pp. 107-128.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2010): “The Figueras Agreement and the rescue of Spanish artistic heritage” in Figueras, capital of the Republic: February 1, 1939. Madrid: Congress of Deputies. Pp. 107-128.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2008): Exodus and exile of art. The odyssey of the Prado Museum during the Civil War. Madrid: Editorial Cátedra.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (2008): “The safeguarding of the national artistic heritage in Valencia” in Valencia, cultural capital of the republic (1936-1937). Valencia: Universitat de València, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, pp. 409-432.
COLORADO CASTELLARY, Arturo (1991): The Prado Museum and the Civil War (Figueras - Geneva, 1939). Madrid: Museo del Prado.