Wacław Szpakowski

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Wacław Karol Szpakowski (born October 9, 1883 in Warsaw , † February 7, 1973 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish architect , engineer , artist and photographer .

Life

Wacław Szpakowski was born in Warsaw on October 9th. When Szpakowski was 14 years old, the family moved to the Latvian capital Riga. Szpakowski was interested in atmospheric phenomena from an early age and documented all significant hurricanes and cyclones . In 1900 Szpakowski took his first photos and dealt with systems of rhythmic lines for the first time. He was also interested in music and took violin lessons. In 1902 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the Riga Technical University . After completing his studies in 1912, he moved back to his hometown Warsaw and worked there in an architecture office. While working for the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in Bydgoszcz from 1922 to 1931, he had a son and three daughters. During this time he made a number of drawings, which he later meticulously traced with tracing paper . Szpakowski became head of the delegation of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in 1931. In 1934 he moved back to Warsaw with his family, where he occasionally worked as an architect. From 1941–1944, Szpakowski was a building inspector in the district architecture department. In 1944 he was briefly arrested by the German National Socialists. Due to the Second World War, Szpakowski and his family moved to Wroclaw in 1944. During this time he managed to keep his drafts and copies of the drawings of rhythmic lines. In 1952, Szpakowski used rhythmic lines to design the ceiling of the cultural center of the Pa-Fa-Wag railway factory in the Przodownik cinema and transferred his graphic design to his architecture. Szapkowski retired on June 30, 1958 at the age of 75. Until his death in 1973 he sorted his drawings and notes and wrote rhythmic lines . Wacław Szpakowski died on February 7, 1973 at the age of 90 in Breslau .

Rhythmic lines

B2, B3

His works were shown for the first time in 1978 in the exhibition "Rhythmic Lines" in the Art Museum in Łodz and several works were part of the exhibition "Inventing Abstraction" in the Museum of Modern Art in 2013. His oeuvre includes around 120 drawings.

Works

  • Rhythmic lines, (Rytmiczne line, 1973)

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wacław Szpakowski (1883-1973). Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Szpakowski, Wacław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szpakowski, Wacław Karol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1973
Place of death Wroclaw