Alexander Ivanovich Gegello

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Alexander Ivanovich Gegello ( Russian Александр Иванович Гегелло * July 23 . Jul / 4. August  1891 greg. In Yekaterinoslav ; † 11. August 1965 in Moscow ) was a Russian architect , representative of Constructivism and university teachers .

Life

Gegello, the son of a Jewish country doctor , attended high school in Yekaterinoslav. After the death of his father, he moved to St. Petersburg with his mother . He studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers and already worked as a student on buildings by the architect Ivan Alexandrowitsch Fomin , whose assistant he was 1915-1924. After the October Revolution , he graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1920 and continued his studies in the architecture department of the Academy of Arts , graduating in 1922.

From 1925 Gegello worked in Leningrad in the Stroikom project planning office . Together with the architect Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev and with the participation of the architect Dawid Lwowitsch Krichevsky and engineer Vladimir Fomitch Railjan developed Gegello 1925-1927 the project for the construction of the House of Culture of Moskowsko-Narwski- Rajons (now Gorky - Palace of Culture , Ploshchad Statschek 4 ) in the constructivist style, which was built after winning the competition and opened for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution . At the same time, Gegello, together with Grigory Alexandrowitsch Simonow and Dawid Lwowitsch Kritschewski, expanded the residential complex with condominiums built by Maximilian Ieronimowitsch Kitner , Alexei Ivanovich Sasersky and Vasily Wassiljewitsch Starostin in 1913–1916 (Uliza Kommissara Smirnova 15) -Culture Palace, which was also opened on the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. In 1926–1927, Gegello created the monument in Sestrorezk for Lenin's hut, into which Lenin and Zinoviev had fled in 1917. Together with Alexander Sergejewitsch Nikolski and Grigori Alexandrowitsch Simonow created Gegello the Traktornaya Ulitsa with three-story residential buildings for workers (1925-1927). Another project was a crematorium in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery (1927). This was followed by the Botkin Hospital (1927–1930 with Kritschewski and Simonow), the Erismann Hospital (1927–1930 with Mark Dawidowitsch Felger ), the Gasa Culture Palace for workers in the Putilov factory (1930–1935), the House of Technology -Lehre (1930–1932 with Kritschewski and Railjan), the Great House of the NKVD (1931–1933 with Andrei Andrejewitsch Ol and Noi Abramowitsch Trozki with the participation of Nikolai Evgenjewitsch Lanser , Georgi Wladimirowitsch Schuko and Alexei Nikolajewitsch Duschkin ) and the Cinema Palace Gigant (1933 –1935 with Kritschewski) as well as schools and bathhouses.

Outside of Leningrad built Gegello a hospital in vyshny volochyok (1926 Simonov), a theater in Tashkent and a theater in Polotsk (1929-11931).

1929–1933 Gegello taught at his former Institute of Civil Engineers, which was now the Leningrad Institute for Municipal Construction. 1934–1948 he headed workshop no. 6 of the Len project . In 1936 he toured England , France and Sweden . In 1937 he received a Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne for his House of Culture in the Moskowsko-Narwski-Rajons. 1937–1950 he headed the Leningrad branch of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR . During the German-Soviet War he lived and worked in Novosibirsk . In 1942 he built a workers' settlement at Inja train station and from 1948–1951 a club and a house in Sevastopol .

In 1950 Gegello became vice president of the Academy of Architecture and now lived and worked in Moscow. He built the House of the Soviets in Oryol (1952), a Lenin monument in Kazan (1953, sculptor Pyotr Petrovich Jazyno ) and a building complex on the Central Square in Kolpino (1955 with Modest Anatolyevich Schepilewski and MJ Klimentow).

Honors

Works

  • Gorky Palace of Culture, Ploshchad Statschek 4, St. Petersburg

  • Lenin's Hut Monument, Sestroreetsk

  • Traktornaja Uliza 11, St. Petersburg

  • Botkin Hospital, 49 Piskaryovsky Prospect, St. Petersburg

  • Gasa Palace of Culture, Prospekt Statschek 72, St. Petersburg

  • House of Technology Teaching, Ulitsa I. Tschernych 4, St. Petersburg

  • Large house of the NKVD, Liteiny Prospect 4, St. Petersburg

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Gegello, Alexander Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гегелло, Александр Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekaterinoslav
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1965
Place of death Moscow