Yevgeny Adolfowitsch Lewinson

Yevgeny Adolfowitsch Levinson ( Russian Евгений Адольфович Левинсон ; born October 7 ^{. Jul} / 19th October  1894 ^greg. In Odessa , † 21st March 1968 in Leningrad ) was a Russian architect .

Life

Yevgeny Lewinson, son of a Jewish family, came to the Prinz-Oldenburg-Heimstätte boarding school in St. Petersburg , where the strictest discipline prevailed. He played sports, played soccer and participated in the spring and autumn cup competitions of the Petrograd Football League.

1915–1916 Lewinson studied at the St. Petersburg Engineering College (University of Architecture and Construction). After the October Revolution , he studied architecture at the Wchutein from 1924–1927 , successor to the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, with WG Helreich , LW Rudnew , SS Serafimow , IA Fomin and WA Shchuko .

Lewinson and Fomin's Lensovjet home

Lewinson took part in many architecture competitions, for example for the State Council building of the Republic of Buryatia in Ulan-Ude and for various projects in Leningrad and Moscow . He won many first prizes, so that he became one of the most important architects in Leningrad. 1931–1938 he built the Lensovjet Culture Palace in Leningrad together with WO Munz . After Lewinson began his work as a constructivist , he now followed the Stalin Empire .

At the beginning of the German-Soviet War , Lewinson led a group of architects to build defensive structures on the approach routes to Leningrad. In December 1941 he and others were evacuated to Sverdlovsk . 1942–1943, together with AA Ol and GA Simonow, he developed a project to build new residential areas in Magnitogorsk , which was the first attempt to introduce low-rise buildings in a large city.

After the war, Levinson took part in the reconstruction of Pushkin and Pavlovsk . He built the Pushkin station together with AA Gruschke , and he took on the construction of the new station in Pavlovsk. On Lewinson's initiative, the construction of low-rise residential areas began in Leningrad. In addition, Levinson took part in competitions for projects to rebuild and restructure Kiev , Minsk , Petrozavodsk , Riga and other cities. Together with others he built the Leningrad metro station Avtovo and the structures of the Leningrad Piskaryovskoye memorial cemetery (1960).

1932–1945 Lewinson was a lecturer at the Leningrad University of Architecture and Construction and 1945–1968 at the Leningrad Art School (since 1947 professor).

Lewinson found his grave in the Leningrad Serafim Cemetery of Honor .

Honors

• 3rd class Stalin Prize (1951) for the construction of the Pushkin train station
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "On the 250th anniversary of Leningrad"

literature

• D. Kritschewski : The work of EA Lewinsons and II Fomin . Architektura SSSR No. 7 (1938), pp. 59-61 (Russian).
• EA Lewinson and II Fomin . Architektura SSSR No. 6 (1940), pp. 9-56 (Russian).
• Yearbook of the Leningrad Section of the Union of Soviet Architects, Leningrad 1940, pp. 168–183 (Russian).
• BM Kirikow, MS Stieglitz: The architecture of the Leningrad avant-garde . Kolo, St. Petersburg 2008 (Russian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Левинсон Евгений Адольфович. Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1969.
2. ↑ Левинсон, Евгений Адольфович - архитектор ( Memento of July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 17, 2016).
3. ↑ Who won the first prize? Buryat-Mongolskaja Pravda No. 066, March 22, 1928, p. 6 (Russian).

Web links

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