Maria Zachwatowicz

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The Casimir Church in Warsaw, rebuilt under Maria Zachwatowicz

Maria Zachwatowicz (also: Maria Chodźko-Zachwatowicz , née Chodźko, born March 12, 1902 in Lublin ; † July 20, 1994 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect and building conservator who worked primarily in the reconstruction of Warsaw after the Second World War .

Life

Her father was Witold Chodźko (1875-1954), a Polish university professor and politician (health and social minister). Maria Zachwatowicz was the wife of the architect Jan Zachwatowicz and the mother of the actress Krystyna Zachwatowicz (wife of the director Andrzej Wajda ) and the singer Katarzyna Zachwatowicz-Jasieńska (* 1932).

Zachwatowicz studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology , where she graduated in 1933. She worked as an architect in the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (Polish: Pracownie Konserwacji Zabytków). The most important objects that were rebuilt on the basis of their designs were the Church of St. Kasimir (Polish: Kościół pw. Św. Kazimierza, ss. Sacramentek ) on the market square in Warsaw's New Town (1947–1952) and the one also in the New Town Sapieha Palace (1951–1955). Zachwatowicz was part of the group of architects who converted the Królikarnia Palace into the Xawery Dunikowski Sculpture Museum in the 1960s . She was also involved in the reconstruction of many other buildings; Among other things, around 1957 she designed the baroque residential buildings in Ulica Brzozowa 27/29 near Kamienne-Schodki on the edge of Warsaw's old town .

In the Warsaw city guide "Warszawa kobiet" ( Warsaw of women ) by Sylwia Chutnik she is mentioned alongside well-known women such as Maria Skłodowska-Curie , Anna Jagiellonka and Bona Sforza , who are connected to Warsaw's history. From June 10 to August 31, 2002, an exhibition about her work took place in the Museum of Warsaw History : “Maria Zachwatowicz, architect - conservator. W stulecie urodzin “( Maria Zachwatowicz, architect and conservator. On her 100th birthday ). She is buried in the Warsaw Powązki Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See “Twórczość”, vol. 56 (2000), issues 4–6, p. 39
  2. ↑ Hanna Faryna-Paszkiewicz; Małgorzata Omilanowska; Robert Pasieczny: Atlas zabytków architektury w Polsce , Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2001, ISBN 978-83-01-13478-5 , p. 308.
  3. ↑ Documentation East Central Europe , ed. by Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Volume 3, 1977, p. 245.
  4. ↑ Katarzyna Kazimierowska: Wbrew mainstreamowi - kobiety kobietom  ( page no longer available , 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. . In: "ResPublica", December 16, 2009 (in Polish)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / publica.pl  
  5. ↑ Cecylia Pietrzak ( arrangement ): Kronika muzealna, Kalendarium wystaw 2001-2002 , p. 420 (in Polish, accessed on February 3, 2013; PDF; 4.6 MB)

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SURNAME Zachwatowicz, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chodźko-Zachwatowicz, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lublin
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1994
Place of death Warsaw