Piotr Biegański

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Piotr Biegański

Piotr Biegański (born May 8, 1905 in Raseiniai ; † January 12, 1986 ) was a Polish architect and university professor. He was instrumental in the reconstruction of Warsaw after the Second World War .

Life

Biegański was born as the eldest child of the married couple Teodor and Emilia, b. Kowalska, born in what is now Lithuania . In 1918, four years after the father's death, the mother moved with the children to Warsaw. Biegański attended the Mickiewicz secondary school here (Polish: Gimnazjum im. A. Mickiewicza, formerly Gimnazjum im. E. Konopczyński). He later studied at the Technical University in Warsaw and attended universities abroad.

During the Second World War he taught in the context of underground lectures at Politechnika. He supported the Home Army . After the end of the war, he organized the reconstruction of Warsaw with the architects Józef Sigalin , Lech Niemojewski , Bohdan Lachert , Jan Zachwatowicz , Stanisław Albrecht and Marian Spychalski as part of the activities of the Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy (BOS), which opened on January 22, 1945. From 1945 to 1954 he was the curator of the city of Warsaw (Polish: Konserwator zabytków m. St. Warszawy), an unprecedentedly challenging task. The People's Republic authorities appointed him to this position even though he was not a communist.

During Biegański's time as a BOS member and city curator, the reconstruction of Warsaw's Old Town and New Town took place . He was also responsible for the reconstruction of many other buildings destroyed in the war, such as the restoration of the entire building ensemble on the west side of today's Plac Bankowe , consisting of the palace of the government commission for income and finance , the palace of the treasurer and the building of the former Warsaw Stock Exchange and National Bank rebuilt. He designed the reconstruction plans for the Staszic Palace , the Sobański Palace (1946–1950), the Kazimierz Palace of the University of Warsaw (1945–54) and the Hołowczyc Palace (1949).

In 1945 he was appointed professor at the Politechnika Faculty of Architecture. From 1960 to 1964 he headed the faculty as dean . In 1951/1952 he was a competition winner in a tender to build the new opera house in Leipzig . Biegański was an honorary laureate (Polish: Laureat nagrody honorowej) of the Polish Association of Architects SARP . He was also u. a. Member of the Mickiewicz Academy in Bologna and of the International Council for the Preservation of Monuments ICOMOS .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to Teresa Krogulec, Pro memoria  ( 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. , Rocznik Warszawski 2005 , volume 33, p. 305 - on the occasion of an exhibition on Piotr Biegański on June 23, 2005 in Warsaw (in Polish).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mazowsze.hist.pl  
  2. ↑ according to Andrzej Tomaszewski, Between Monument Preservation and Ideology , in: Beate Störtkuhl (Ed.), Hansestadt - Residenz - Industriestandort , contributions to the 7th meeting of the Working Group of German and Polish Art Historians in Oldenburg, December 27, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56686-5 , Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2002, p. 303 .

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SURNAME Biegański, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Raseiniai
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1986