Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger

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Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger , also known as Gustaw Landau or Gustaw Gutenteger (* 1862 in Warsaw ; † October 13, 1924 in Berlin ), was a Polish architect of the Jewish faith who mainly worked in Łódź .

Life

Landau-Gutenteger was the son of the merchant Adolf and his wife Józefa. He graduated from the Łódź High School of Sculpture (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Rzemieślnicza) and then studied at the Institute of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg at the Faculty of Road and Bridge Architecture . As a student, he won a prize for designing a new building for the insurance company "Rosja" in Warsaw. In 1884 he completed his studies in St. Petersburg and around 1888 he moved back to Łódź to open an office for building projects on Ulica Piotrkowska .

Landau-Gutenteger was a supporter of the Italian Renaissance . His own designs were initially shaped by the style of eclecticism , from the turn of the century, elements of the secession style were increasingly incorporated . He also valued Polish blacksmithing and liked to equip buildings with iron window bars and balustrades with floral designs . The architect was also an avid set designer .

Buildings (selection)

Landau-Gutenteger worked mainly in Łódź. In Warsaw he built for his brother, the banker Wilhelm Landau, the building of the Bank Polski Przemysłowy in the Ulica Senatorska . This Art Nouveau building was built between 1904 and 1906 next to the Mniszech Palace , replacing a former side wing of the palace. It was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt after the war (in a not entirely original form, e.g. without a dome). A design for an exhibition building for the Warsaw Society of Fine Arts (Polish: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych ), which was presented in 1894, was not implemented.

In Lublin he designed the seat of the industrial and commercial treasury (Polish: Kasa Przemysłowo-Handlowa), today the Hotel “ Lublinianka ”.

In Łódź Landau-Gutenteger built a large number of Art Nouveau buildings , especially on the Piotrkowska boulevard . He built a few synagogues and was one of the planners of the “Grand Hotel” (the city's oldest hotel still in use). The construction of one of the first concrete buildings in Poland, the School of the Merchants' Assembly (Polish: Szkoła Zgromadzenia Kupców) is also remarkable.

His buildings on Piotrkowska in Łódź include:

  • Neo-Renaissance building , No. 82 (1891)
  • Neo-Renaissance building, No. 120 (1891)
  • Neo-Baroque tenement house, No. 31 (1899)
  • Oskar Kon's tenement house in the Berlin-Vienna secession style, No. 43 (1901)
  • Dawid Szmulewicz's tenement house, No. 37 (1903)
  • Sezession-style tenement house of the family, No. 128
  • Neo-Renaissance building, No. 153
  • Neo-Renaissance building, No. 260

Synagogues built by him in Łódź:

  • “Wilker Shul” synagogue, destroyed (1875)
  • Reicher Synagogue (1895)
  • Synagogue “Ezras Izrael”, destroyed (1899)

Other buildings by Landau-Gutenteger in Łódź:

  • Renaissance style villa of Gustaw Schreer on the corner of Narutowicza Street (1894)
  • Rental building of the Auerbach brothers at Ulica Narutowicza 32 (1896)
  • Landau Bank building at 29 Piotrkowska Street (1902)
  • Zygmunt Dejczman's tenement house at Aleja Kościuszki 93 (1902)
  • Leopold Kindermann's villa at Ulica Wólczańska 31/33 (1903)
  • Rachmil Lipszyc's building at 44 Narutowicza Street (1910)

References and comments

  1. ↑ According to other information, the place of birth is Łódż and the date of birth is 1860, according to Wiesław Puś, Żydzi w Łodzi w latach zaborów 1793-1914 , ISBN 9788371711657 , Publishing House of the University of Łodz, 1998, p. 286
  2. ↑ a b according to Wiesław Puś, Żydzi w Łodzi w latach zaborów 1793-1914 , ISBN 9788371711657 , Publishing House of the University of Łodz, 1998, p. 286
  3. ↑ according to Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Ed.), Polin, Volume 6, ISBN 9781904113157 , Basil Blackwell for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford, England 1991 [1]
  4. ↑ according to Marek Szukalak, Andrzej Kempa, Marek Szukalak: Żydzi dawnej Łodzi. Słownik biograficzny Żydów łódzkich oraz z Łodzią związanych , Volume 2, ISBN 9788387522520 , Oficyna Bibliofilów, 2004
  5. ↑ a b c according to Brief information on Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tnn.pl archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at tnn.pl (in Polish)

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personal data
SURNAME Landau-Gutenteger, Gustaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutenteger, Gustaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1924
Place of death Berlin