Juliusz Nagórski
Juliusz Nagórski (born April 17, 1887 in Warsaw ; † August 7, 1944 there ) was a Polish architect , painter and town planner .
Life
Nagórski was the son of Adam and Walentyna Nagórski. He had five siblings: two older brothers, Zygmunt and Adam, a younger brother Bohdan, and two sisters, Hanna and Walentyna. He grew up in Nałęczów .
Nagórski graduated from the state secondary school in Warsaw. He was artistically gifted in many ways. From 1904 he studied at the Faculty of Engineering and Building Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute and at the same time at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts . Because of the closure of the institute after a student strike in 1905, he went to France. There he began studying architecture at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , and in drawing at the Académie Julian. During his studies he was awarded five medals for his competition and school work and did two internships: building the “Cedergren” telephone station in Warsaw under the direction of B. Brochwicz-Rogójski (1907) and building the new theater in Nancy (1908). In 1909 he received the Certificat d'études section d'architecture .
After returning to Poland, he worked as an architect. His work in the field of architecture is clearly divided into three style phases: the eclectic stage with elements of the Secession (until 1914), the reference to the classicism period (until 1918) and moderate modernism (1930s). As part of his professional activity, he dealt with architecture, with work in the field of urban planning and with the renovation of old buildings. Libraries, museums, school buildings, tenement houses, a sanatorium, factories, residential buildings, administrative buildings and a train station can be found among over 90 designs.
He also created monuments, interior fittings for shops, offices, a bank and a main post office, church altars, an entrance gate to a private zoo, a tomb and a cemetery chapel. The architect's most interesting works in Warsaw were either destroyed during the war (the “Polish Library” publishing salon ), damaged (the officers' yacht club on the Vistula ) or demolished after the war (Jan Fruziński's tenement on Marszałkowska Street , the complex of GG Lardelle on Polna Street).
Nagórski's works show a clear influence of the style of the École des beaux-arts. He remained true to French culture throughout his professional activity. He was inspired by the work of architects such as Michel Roux-Spitz , Henri Sauvage , Robert Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier . He was also considered a gifted decorator, painter and sculptor, and portraits were particularly popular.
At the beginning of the war he ran a design office, working with the construction company of R. Strzeszewski. The office dealt with the conversion and renovation of historical buildings that were taken over by the German authorities, and a. the Palace of the Council of Ministers next to the Presidential Palace. He initiated the creation of the Committee for Securing the Ruins of the Royal Castle with J. Radziwiłł as co-chair, which brought him suspicions of collaboration with the occupier.
He was married twice: to Jadwiga Kontkiewiczówna, the cousin of a colleague with whom he had a daughter, Wanda, and to Halina Zyman.
He died at the end of the first week of the Warsaw Uprising , probably during the execution of the men in the area of the so-called Janasz weekly market in the Mirów halls .
literature
- Marek Tomiczek: Juliusz Nagórski (1877-1944). Architect, malarz, urbanista . Muzeum Politechniki Warszawskiej, 2013 (Polish).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nagórski, Juliusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish architect, painter and city planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1944 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |