Marian Lalewicz

Marian Lalewicz (born November 21, 1876 in Vilkaviškis , † August 21, 1944 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect and university professor. He was one of the most important representatives of academic classicism in the interwar period .

Life

Lalewicz attended a grammar school in Suwałki , where he completed his education in 1895. He then studied architecture at the Russian Art Academy in St. Petersburg , where he graduated in 1901. He continued his studies for two years in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria and Italy. Subsequently - until 1917 - he taught art and architecture history at various St. Petersburg schools. At the same time he was already designing a number of buildings for Moscow and St. Petersburg. After the First World War he moved back to the now independent Poland . Between 1925 and 1927 he was dean at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. From 1935 to 1938 he was rector here. In 1936 Lalewicz was awarded the “Wawrzyn Akademicki” prize of the Polska Akademia Literatury .

During the attack on Warsaw at the beginning of World War II , he served as director of a technical rescue agency ( Pogotowie Techniczne ). During the occupation he taught at underground universities; In 1943 he was expelled from his house at 41 Górnośląska Street . During the Warsaw Uprising , Lalewicz was shot dead by German troops on August 21, 1944 in a mass execution in Warsaw's Ulica Dzika . After the war, a symbolic grave was erected for him in the Powązki cemetery (grave place 244 / I / 29). Lalewicz was the bearer of the Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta .

Works (selection)

Estonia

• Spa house in Narva-Jõesuu (1912)

Poland

Warsaw:

• Reconstruction and redesign of the interior of the presidential palace (1918–1921)
• Renovation of the Palace of the Government Commission for Income and Finance (1919–1921)
• Renovation of the building of the former stock exchange and national bank in Warsaw (1919–1921)
• Reconstruction of the Treasury's Palace for the Ministry of Finance (1920)
• Building of the Geological Institute ( Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny ) on Ulica Wiśniowa (1923–1930)
• Dismantling of the Staszic Palace (1924–1926)
• Agricultural Bank Building at 50 Nowogrodzka Street (1926–1927)
• Conversion of the Primate's Palace to the seat of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (1927)
• Central Railway Administration building at 74 Targowa Street (1928–1929)
• Restoration of the Raczyński Palace (around 1930)

Outside Warsaw:

• Building of the Polski Bank in Sosnowiec (1922–1924)
• Building of the Polski Bank in Kalisz (1924–1926)
• Westerplatte Heroes Naval Academy ( Akademia Marynarki Wojennej im. Bohaterów Westerplatte ) in Gdynia (1927)
• Garrison Church in Gdynia (1935–1939)
• Agricultural Bank in Toruń (1937-1939)
• Conversion of a barracks into buildings of the Catholic University of Lublin
• State Agricultural Bank in Lublin
• Polski Bank building in Siedlce

Russia

• Siberian Bank in St. Petersburg
• Pokotilov Palace in St. Petersburg (1909)
• FL Mertens fur goods department store in St. Petersburg (1911–1912)
• Theater / cinema building "Parisiana" in St. Petersburg (1913–1914)
• Administration building of the Russian-American factory "Treugolnik" in Moscow (1916)

Ukraine

• Building of the State Agricultural Bank in Łuck

Web links

Commons : Marian Lalewicz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brief information and building list at Warszawa1939.pl (Polish)
• Adam Zwoliński, Marian Lalewicz's curriculum vitae on the Warsaw University of Technology website (Polish)