Georgi Fingow

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Georgi Dimitrov Fingov (also Georgi Dimitrov Fingov , Bulgarian Георги Димитров Фингов ; born May 13, 1874 in Kalofer , Ottoman Empire , today in Bulgaria ; †  January 10, 1944 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian-Austrian architect. He died during the bombing of Sofia in 1944. Georgi Fingow is the father of the architect Dimitar Fingow . Georgi Fingow is considered to be the first representative of the Secession and especially the Vienna Secession in the visual arts in Bulgaria.

Life

Georgi Fingow was born in the town of Kalofer in the Balkan Mountains in the family of the teacher Dimitar Fingow. Kalofer was one of the centers of Bulgarian national revival . His father was the teacher of some of the most famous personalities of the era and later became friends with them: the revolutionary Christo Botew and the writer Ivan Wasow . After graduating from the cell school in Kalofer, Georgi attended the boys' grammar school (today Alexandrow grammar school) in Plovdiv from 1888 , which he graduated with honors in 1892.

The former Philipphof by Karl König

In the same year Georgi Fingow went to Vienna , where he studied architecture at the Technical University . When he arrived in Vienna, he was accepted by Jurdan Milanow , who also studied architecture at the university. The course that his art teachers at school, Anton Mitow and Ivan Angelow, had suggested to him, he also completed in 1898 with distinction. During his studies, Fingow worked in Karl König's office from 1897 . There he designed the details for the dome of the Vienna Philipphof (destroyed in World War II). In the last year of his studies he was assistant to Karl Mayreder's chair for ancient architecture (originator of the urban planning of Cologne and Salzburg). During this time, Fingow also worked in Mayreder's architectural office and in the municipal regulatory office at the Vienna City Council, which he directed . Fingow was involved in the construction of the Karlskirche in Vienna and in the drawing of various regulatory plans.

Back in Bulgaria, Georgi Fingow founded his own architectural office in Plovdiv . In the period up to 1901 he worked in a joint venture with W. Walkowitsch and then as an independent architect. In 1902, Fingow moved to Sofia, where he was hired as the head of the architecture department at the Sofia municipality from August. At the same time he founded a joint architecture office with the architect Kiril Maritschkow , who also came from Kalofer . When Maritschkow was elected mayor of the Bulgarian capital in 1908, they ended their collaboration in 1909. From 1903 to 1906, Fingow was head of the department for the construction and maintenance of castles in the Ministry for Public Buildings, Roads and Urban Development. In this function he was the successor to the Austrian Friedrich Grünanger .

In 1907 Fingow left the ministry and became independent again; his position in the ministry was filled by the architects Dimo Nitschew and Nikola Jurukow . In 1910, Fingow studied together with Jurukow on behalf of the entrepreneur S. Slawow technologies for the manufacture of stone products in Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary. With Nitschew and Jurukow, Fingow founded the joint architecture firm Fingow, Nitschew and Jurukow (Bulgarian Фигов, Ничев и Юруков) in 1911.

Between 1912 and 1918, all three were drafted into the Balkan Wars (1912/13) and the First World War. After the wars Yurukov left the joint office because of increasing political activity in the Macedonian organizations . His successor in the architectural office was G. Apostolow. Fingow worked with Nitschew and Apostolow until 1926 and again independently until 1938.

Georgi Fingow died on January 10, 1944 during the bombing of Sofia in World War II .

Famous works

  • French girls' school (1898, today theological seminar with Walkowitsch) in Plovdiv
  • Rimalovsky's house (1899) in Plovdiv
  • House of Najden Prangow (1900) in Plovdiv
  • Evangelical Church (1901, Sachat Tepe) in Plovdiv
  • Papadopoulos Bakery (1901) in Plovdiv
  • House of Hariton Genadiev
  • Petar Shishkov's house (1902, today building of the Kazanlak municipality) in Kazanlak
  • Vocational school of the women's association “Muttersorge” (1901) in Plovdiv
  • Administration building of the trading company "H. Gyokov ”(1901) in Plovdiv
  • Fence of the Botanical Garden (1903) in Sofia
  • House of Adolf Funk (1902, now an insurance company) in Sofia, Bulevard Dondukow
  • Exhibition pavilion for marble products (1904, next to the former Ministry of Finance, later demolished) in Sofia
  • Customs office and port administration (1905–1907 with Kiril Maritschkow ) in Burgas
  • House of S. and W. Drenkowi (1905, today the Greek Embassy) in Sofia
  • Major General KB Petkov's house (1905) in Sofia at 23 Shipka Street
  • Otto Derkens' house (1905, today Europabank for Reconstruction and Development) in Sofia, 17 Moskowska Street
  • Royal hunting lodge “ Zarska Bistriza ” (1905) in the Rila Mountains , near Borovets
  • Pavilion in the princely residence (1905) in Kritschim
  • “Battenberg” restaurant (1905 with Maritschkow, destroyed during the bombing of Sofia in 1944) in Sofia
  • Restoration of the monastery of St. Dimitar (1906) in the royal residence Evksinograd near Varna
  • Villa in Wrana Castle (1906) in Sofia
  • III. Boys' grammar school "Gladstone" (1906, today School of St. Kiril and Method) in Sofia
  • Vocational school for girls “Maria Louisa” (1907, today Museum of the Ministry of Interior) in Sofia, 30 Lawele Street
  • Splended Palace Hotel (1907, now a hotel) in Sofia, 5 Triadiza Street
  • German School (1907 with Maritschkow, today the Magistrate Building) in Sofia, St. Paris 5
  • Evangelical Church (1907 with Maritschkow) in Sofia
  • 18. Polytechnic high school (1907 with Maritschkow) in Sofia
  • Red Cross Hospital (1907 with Maritschkow, now part of the accident hospital) in Sofia
  • House of General Paprikow (1907 with Maritschkow) in Sofia
  • House of Cape W. Lazarow (1907 with Maritschkow) in Sofia
  • Culture house “Elena and Kiril Avramowi” (1907 with Maritschkow) in Swishtov
  • Georgi Fingow's house (1907, the head sculpture at the entrance is by Andrej Nikolow ) in Sofia, 38 Shipka Street
  • Railway Directorate (1908 with Maritschkow) in Sofia, 6th September St. / Gen. Gurko
  • Elena Gorgas's house (1908 with Maritschkow, now the residence of the French ambassador) in Sofia, Oborishte Street 29
  • House of Fingow and Maritschkow (1909 with Maritschkow, later demolished) in Sofia
  • House for the heirs of Petko Ratschow Slawejkow (1909 with Maritschkow) in Sofia
  • III. Progymnasium "Graf Ignatiew" (1911–1912 with Maritschkow) in Sofia
  • Elementary school "Georgi Sawa Rakowski" (1911–1912 with Nitschew and Nikola Jurukow ) in Sofia
  • Bank of Sofia (1913 with Nitschew and Jurukow, today the central administration of the State Savings Bank and DSK Bank ) in Sofia, 19 Moskowska Street

  • Evangelical Church in Plovdiv

  • Fingow's house on Shipka Street in Sofia

  • Customs and port administration in Burgas

literature

  • Grigor Doytchinov, Christo Gantchev: Austrian architects in Bulgaria. 1878-1918. Böhlau, et al. Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99343-8 , pp. 97-113.

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personal data
SURNAME Fingow, Georgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fingow, Georgi Dimitrov; Fingov, Georgi Dimitrov; Фингов, Георги Димитров (Bulgarian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian-Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalofer , Ottoman Empire (today: Bulgaria )
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1944
Place of death Sofia