Józef Pius Dziekoński

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Józef Pius Dziekoński (born May 5, 1844 in Płock , † February 4, 1927 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect, monument conservator and university professor. He designed mainly sacred buildings and represented the style of historicism . He is considered the pioneer of the Vistula-Baltic Sea style (Polish: Styl wiślano-bałtycki ).

Life

Born in Płock, he attended the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which he graduated in 1866. He then studied at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg , where he obtained the diploma of an architect III in 1871. Class received. In 1863 he had participated in the January Uprising .

The first work was done in collaboration with the architects E. Lilpop and E. Cichocki; later he designed solely around 50 churches in the Kingdom of Poland, mostly in Warsaw's environment, including the Florian Church in Warsaw-Praga , the Stanislaus Church in Warsaw Wola and the Charles Borromeo Church in Warsaw Powazki. His preferred architectural style for sacred buildings was the neo-Gothic.

From 1815 to 1817, Dziekoński was the first dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Historical Monuments (Polish: Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami Przeszłości ) and from 1893 on the Commission for the Study of Art History in Poland (Polish: Komisja do Badania Historii Sztuki w Polsce ).

Dziekoński's students included Franciszek Lilpop , Zdzisław Mączeński, and Ludwik Panczakiewicz. He was a holder of the Polonia Restituta Order and the Order of Gregorius . In 1919 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Politechnika in Lemberg .

Buildings (selection)

  • Reconstruction of the Alexander Church on Plac Trzech Krzyży (1886–1895)
  • House of Karol Scheibler (Polish: Kamienica Karola Scheiblera) on Ulica Trębacka in Warsaw (1894)
  • Park around the Adam Mickiewicz Monument (Warsaw) , 1898
  • Construction of the neo-Gothic Dziekoński house in Aleje Ujazdowskie (1890–1900)
  • House under the Sirens (Polish: Dom "Pod Syrenami") on Ulica Marszałkowska , Warsaw (around 1910)
  • Construction of the Catholic Church of the Redeemer (Polish: Kościół Najświętszego Zbawiciela) in Warsaw (at the beginning of the 20th century)
  • Project for the construction of the administration building of the Jesuskind Hospital (Polish: Szpital Dzieciątka Jezus ) on Ulica Lindeya , Warsaw (in the 1930s)

References and comments

  1. ↑ The Vistula-Baltic Sea style was declared the Polish national style for a while; it was characterized by neo-Gothic brick facades that are reminiscent of medieval castles.
  2. ↑ a b according to Karl von Delhaes, Biographical materials from the East Central European press after 1945. Brief description of selected holdings of the press archive in the Herder Institute , Poland, Volume 1, AG, Part 1, Volume 2 from: Collections of the Herder Institute for East Central Europe Research , ISBN 3- 87969-265-3 , Herder Institute, 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Dziekoński, Józef Pius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Plock
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1927
Place of death Warsaw