Jan Kacper Heurich

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Heurich's tomb in the Protestant cemetery in Warsaw

Jan Kacper Heurich (also: Jan Heurich the Elder , born June 21, 1834 , † March 24, 1887 ) was a Warsaw builder. He came from a family who immigrated from Saxony and was one of Warsaw's most famous architects in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Life

Heurich learned drawing and painting from Jan Feliks Piwarski during his schooldays and began his studies in 1852 at the architecture faculty of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw , where one of his teachers was Henryk Marconi . After graduating in 1856 (“Master Builder First Class”) he was involved in the construction of St. Anne's Church in Wilanów until 1860 (Diploma 1862: “Master Builder II Class”). Following study trips to Italy, France and Germany, he received his diploma in 1866 as a “Class III builder”.

Heurich won numerous awards for his designs for public buildings, including the construction of the Polytechnic Institute in Lodz (1866), the renovation of the City Hall (1864) and the construction of the People's Theater in Warsaw (1869). In Warsaw, Heurich designed city palaces, villas and tenement houses in the style of the Italian Renaissance . During the Second World War , almost all of the buildings he designed in Warsaw were destroyed and later not rebuilt. Outside Warsaw he built some rural mansions and palaces. His projects were characterized by harmonious proportions. Heurich was a promoter of specialist literature.

As the son of a cabinet maker, he wrote two textbooks (the first of its kind in Poland) on this profession, published by Gebethner i Wolff , from the "Biblioteka Rzemieślnika Polskiego" series:

  • Handbook for joiners (Polish: “Przewodnik dla cieśli. Obejmujący cały zakres ciesielstwa, z 299 drzeworytami w tekscie, podług najlepszych dzieł obcych z zastosowaniem się do potrzeb i zwyczajów krajowych”) from the year 1874.
  • Handbook for carpenters (Polish: “Przewodnik dla stolarzy. Obejmujący cały zakres stolarstwa, podług najlepszych dzieł obcych z zastosowaniem się do potrzeb i zwyczajów Stolarzy Polskich”) from 1876.

Another 32-page work was published by F. Krokoszyńska in 1873 :

  • Jak robotnicy u nas mieszkają, a jak mieszkać mogą i powinni. Odczt popularny wypowiedziany dnia 11 maja 1873 r

Heurich's son was the architect Jan Fryderyk Heurich (“the younger”). Heurich was buried in the Evangelical Augsburg cemetery in Warsaw.

Buildings (selection)

  • Work on St. Anna's Church (1857–1860)
  • Construction of the Janasz Palace in Warsaw (1874–1875)
  • Station building of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway in Skierniewice (1875)
  • Reconstruction of the US embassy building (the former villa of the entrepreneur Stanisław Lilpop) on Aleje Ujazdowskie
  • Construction of the boys' high school “M. Reya ”, Plac Małachowskiego 1
  • Construction of the girls' high school “Królewny Anny Wazówny”, Ulica Kredytowa 2

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ according to The description of the exhibition “Poland by choice…” illuminates a bright German-Polish chapter  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / sdpz.org   at (accessed on May 21, 2012)
  2. ↑ Jan Feliks Piwarski (1794-1859) was a Polish painter and graphic artist who worked as curator at the University of Warsaw and as a professor at the University of Fine Arts
  3. ↑ Fryderyk Marcin Heurich (1804-1870)
  4. ↑ according to Dworce kolejowe on the website of Ziemia Łódzka (accessed on May 22, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Heurich, Jan Kacper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish neo-renaissance architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1834
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1887