Lech Niemojewski

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Lech Niemojewski (born August 26, 1894 in Sosnowiec , † October 11, 1952 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect and professor at the architecture faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology .

Life

Niemojewski was the son of the poet Andrzej Niemojewski. He went to school in Warsaw. In 1912 he took mathematics lessons at the Society for Scientific Courses (Polish: Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych) for a year. From 1913 he studied architecture, first at the polytechnic school in Lviv and later at the architecture faculty of the Technical University in Warsaw. From 1916 to 1922 he also studied graphics at the School of Fine Arts . During his studies he worked as a curator in the Łazienki Palace .

He took part in the Polish-Soviet War in 1920 and completed his architecture studies in 1922. He then became an assistant at the university. After the death of Professor Stanisław Noakowski , Niemojewski took over the Faculty of Art History in 1928. In 1929 Niemojewski received his doctorate, in 1932 he received his habilitation and in 1933 he was appointed professor.

architect

In 1926 he received - together with Bohdan Lachert and Józef Szanajca - the first prize for a project of cheap residential buildings in Lemberg. Among other objects he realized a villa project in Wejherowo , the building of the Warsaw Art Propaganda Institute (Polish: Instytut Propagandy Sztuki ) in Ulica Królewska and the quartermaster house of the army in Warsaw. A villa was built for Tadeusz Pruszkowski in Kazimierz Dolny and a soldiers' home in Wroclaw . He also designed a church in Białystok . He also worked on the drafts for the passenger ships Piłsudski and Batory . In 1938 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the French Legion of Honor.

War and Post War

During the battle for Warsaw at the beginning of World War II , Niemojewski was the commander of the vigilante group in the Mokotów district . During the occupation he taught underground at the Politechnika Warsaw. Even after the Warsaw Uprising was put down by German troops, he continued to work at the Faculty of Architecture, which at that time had been transferred to the University of Lublin . Here in January 1945 he created an operations group with the architects Józef Sigalin and Bohdan Lachert , which planned the reconstruction of Warsaw and was thus the forerunner of the Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy .

In September 1945 he took over the chair for art history and medieval architecture at the architecture faculty in Warsaw. In 1947 and 1948 he was dean of this faculty. In 1952 he was removed from office. He was accused of the content of his book "Uczniowie Cieśli", in which the party saw an attack on the given ideology.

Niemoyevsky was a member of many organizations. From 1930 to 1931 he chaired the council of the Polish Association of Architects (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Architektów Polskich, today SARP ), as well as again from 1944 to 1945. In 1934 he became a member of the CPIA - Comité Permanent International des Architectes and in 1945 he joined the Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie .

Niemojewski was married to Jadwiga Dobrowolska. He died in 1952 and was buried in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (grave site T-IV-4/5).

Works (publications)

  • Siedem Cudów Świata , edition 1/1938, Ex Libris, Warsaw 1948
  • Uczniowie Cieśli. Rozważania nad zawodem architekta , Trzaska, Evert i Michalski, Warsaw 1948

References and comments

  1. ^ Andrzej Niemojewski (1864-1921) was a Polish poet and writer and an important representative of the Young Poland art movement
  2. ↑ according to K. Słojkowska, Kazimierz Dolny w zbiorach PAN Archiwum w Warszawie ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.petea.home.pl archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Archiwum Polskiej Akademii Nauk (in Polish)
  3. ^ Article in the magazine “Przegląd”, Zmartwychwstanie Warszawy at WirtualnaPolska from January 19, 2012 (in Polish)

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personal data
SURNAME Niemojewski, Lech
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosnowiec
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1952
Place of death Warsaw