Max Krajewski

Max Sinowjewitsch Krajewski (born September 21, 1901 in Szydłowiec , Russian Empire ; died 1971 in Moscow ) was a Polish-Russian architect.

Life

Max Krajewski was born in the Polish part of the Russian Empire. He completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator . In 1919 he fled from the armed conflicts in the Ruhr area and initially fought as a laborer until he had all his papers and found a job as a metalworker in Herne . He learned the German language at evening school and he attended courses and lectures at the Volkshochschule Bochum, as well as a drawing circle. After work, Krajewski began to work as an autodidact artist.

In 1923 he went penniless to the Bauhaus in Weimar and caught up with his friend Fritz Kuhr . In 1924, after the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, he became a journeyman in the metal workshop and lived in the Prellerhaus from 1926 . He designed lighting fixtures for the Bauhaus building in Dessau. In 1926 he became an intern in the Gropius project planning office and from 1927 an employee. He was employed by Gropius as site manager for the construction of the Törten housing estate , then the Dessau employment office and, in 1929/30, the Dammerstock housing estate in Karlsruhe .

Krajewski went to the Soviet Union in 1931 and worked as an architect in Moscow.

memories

• Max Sinowjewitsch Krajewski: My years of apprenticeship and training at the Bauhaus , in: 50 Years of Bauhaus Dessau , Scientific Journal of the University of Architecture and Building, 1976, issue 5/6. 1st Bauhaus Colloquium Weimar from October 27-29, 1976 PDF

literature

• Wolfgang Thöner, Ute Ackermann: The Bauhaus is alive . Leipzig: Seemann Henschel, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86502-208-0 , part 2, p. 62

Web links

• Max Krajewski, Tea glass holder , at Harvard Art Museums