Teodor Talowski

Teodor Talowski
Teodor Talowski
Born	March 23, 1857; Zasów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland)
Died	May 1, 1910 (aged 53); Lviv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Lviv Polytechnic
Buildings	Church of St. Elizabeth, Lviv

Teodor Marian Talowski (born March 23, 1857 in Zasów, died May 1, 1910 in Lviv) was a Polish architect and painter. Because of his style, which combined late Historicism with Art Nouveau and Modernist influences, he has been described as "the Polish Gaudi".^[1] His works include apartment buildings, churches, chapels and public buildings in Kraków, Lviv and other cities throughout former Austrian Galicia.

Biography

Talowski was born in Zassów (now Zasów) near Tarnów, in Austrian Galicia, and attended a gymnasium in Kraków. Later he moved to Vienna, where he studied architecture under Karl König. After two years he moved to Lviv (Template:Lang-pl, Template:Lang-de), to study under Julian Zachariewicz at Lviv Polytechnic, from which he graduated in 1881. He came back to Kraków to be a professor at the Higher School of Technology and Industry (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Techniczo-Przemysłowa). In 1901 he was appointed the chair of the Department of Drawing and later the Department of Medieval Architecture Composition at Lviv Polytechnic.^[2]^[3]

Throughout his whole professional life, Talowski worked mainly in Galicia, designing public utility buildings as well as private houses.^[4] The works of Talowski are set in eclecticism, showing strong connections with historicism and Art Nouveau.^[5]

He died prematurely in 1910 in Lviv after five years of poor health and was interred at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.

Main works

Residential buildings

Complex of apartment buildings in Kraków at 1,3,7,9,15 Retoryka street:

• 1 Retoryka Street - Under the Singing Frog (Pol. Pod śpiewającą żabą), 1889–90

• 7 Retoryka Street - Festina Lente, 1887

• 9 Retoryka Street - Under the Ass (Pod Osłem), 1891

• 15 Retoryka Street - Think Long, Act Fast (Długo myśl, prędko czyń), 1888

Talowski's own house Under the Spider (Pol. Pod pająkiem) on Karmelicka Street, Kraków, 1889
Apartment building at 18 Smoleńsk Street, Kraków, Under the Dragon (Pod Smokiem), 1887

Churches

Talowski designed over 70 churches, including:

Church of St. Elizabeth in Lviv, Ukraine (1903–11)
St. Mary of the Perpetual Assistance Church in Ternopil, Ukraine (1903–08)
St. Elizabeth Church in Nowy Sącz
St. Casimir Church in Nowy Sącz
St. Nicholas Church in Przyszowa
Parochial Church in Sucha Beskidzka
Jesus' Transfiguration Church in Libiąż
St. Stanisław Church in Osobnica
Assumption of St. Mary Church in Kamianka-Buzka
St. Anne Church in Wadowice Górne
All Saints' Church in Chorzelów
Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Nagoszyn
Church of St. Stanislaw the Bishop in Łańcut, (alteration)
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Bóbrka
St. Sophia and St. Stephen Church in Laszki
St. Anne Church in Skalat, Ukraine
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Stoyaniv, Ukraine
The Polish church in Cacica, Romania

Other works

Lubicz Street Viaduct in Kraków
Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God Hospital in Kraków
Dąbrowski Manor in Michałowice
Kraków electric works building
Żeleński's palace in Grodkowice near Kraków
Talowski's family tomb at the Rakowicki Cemetery
Dobiecki Manor House in Cianowice Duże

Gallery

St. Elisabeth's Church in Lviv, the northern elevation
Church of St. Mary of the Perpetual Assistance in Ternopil built between 1903-08, demolished by the Soviets in 1954
Parish Church in Sucha Beskidzka
St.John of God Hospital, Kraków
Manor house of the Żeleński family in Grodkowice
St. Anne Church in Wadowice Górne
St. Nicholas Church in Lubzina
A townhouse on Retoryka Street, Kraków
Festina lente Townhouse, Kraków
The Pod Osłem Townhouse, Kraków
The Loewenfeld Mausoleum, Chrzanów
Tenement House Under the Sign of Spider, Kraków
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church , Stoyaniv
St. Casimir's Church, Nowy Sącz
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Bóbrka