Józef Szanajca

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The bust of Szanajca, made by Bohdan Lachert, is part of a memorial on Ulica Jagiellońska in Warsaw's Praga district

Józef Szanajca (born March 13, 1902 in Lublin , † September 24, 1939 near Płazów ) was a Polish engineer, architect and an important representative of Polish modernism .

Life

Szanajca studied at the Warsaw University of Technology . He was a member of the student union “ Welecja ” and undertook various trips abroad during his studies: Czechoslovak Republic and Italy (1923), Romania and Turkey (1924) and Berlin (1925). In the 1930s he visited Vienna, Venice, Sicily, Algeria, Málaga, Seville, Lisbon and Brussels. In 1936 he traveled to Scandinavia. Szanajca completed his studies in 1927 and worked from 1929 to 1939 as a senior assistant in the Faculty of Interior Design at the TU; here he worked as a deputy under Professor Szyszko-Bohusza. He also worked for the State Social Insurance Institution ( ZUS ) from 1929 to 1933 . From 1935 to 1939 he was also employed as an appraiser at the Warschauer Kreditgesellschaft (Polish: Towarzystwo Kredytowe).

Szanajca was a member of the Praesens artist group , which was heavily influenced by Szymon Syrkus and Helena Syrkusowa . He was an advocate of functionalism and constructivism in architecture as well as the Bauhaus ideas. In doing so, he opposed the widespread style of the classic and rural ( dworek ) tradition lines. Between 1926 and 1939 he worked closely with Bohdan Lachert . He also cooperated with Stanisław Brukalski , Lech Niemojewski and W. Winkler. With Lachert, Brukalski and Bohdan Pniewski , he designed the award-winning Polish pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. In addition to several apartment buildings and villas in Warsaw (including in Saska Kępa), he was the main architect in the construction of the central post station in Warsaw, which was destroyed during the Warsaw uprising Warsaw (1933-1939).

Drafted at the beginning of the Second World War, the unmarried Szanajcy fell on September 24, 1939 on a night patrol in his own vehicle in the area around Płazów near Tomaszów Lubelski .

References and comments

  1. ↑ according to Information in an exhibition catalog (see web links) he was born on March 17th.

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SURNAME Szanajca, Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lublin
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1939
Place of death Płazów