Jan Zawiejski

Jan Zawiejski

Jan Zawiejski, born Jan Baptysta Feintuch, (1854–1922) was a Polish architect from an assimilated Polish-Jewish family, a representative of the 19th century historism advocating for a return to classical design of the past.

His most notable design works in Kraków include Juliusz Słowacki Theatre (1889-1893), School of Economics (1904–1906), Ohrenstein House at the corner of Stradom and Dietla streets build for Moshe Löbel Ohrenstein and his wife Reizel Wald (1911–1913), and the architect's own house, the so-called Jasny Dom (The Bright House) built 1909–1910. He also designed the old Spa House (Pol. "Stary Dom Zdrojowy") in Krynica (1884–1889; with Jan Niedzielski).

Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Kraków, by Zawiejski

Career

Zawiejski was born on 20 June 1854 in Kraków, located at that time in the Austrian partition. In the years of 1872–1873 he studied in Munich and in 1873–1878 at the polytechnic in Vienna. In 1900 he became the city architect of Kraków.

Zawiejski died on 9 September 1922 in Kraków. He is interred in the Rakowicki Cemetery.

References

• "Zawiejski Jan". WIEM Encyklopedia (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-12-09.

Further reading

• Purchla, Jacek (1986). Jan Zawiejski, architekt przełomu XIX i XX wieku (in Polish) (1st ed.). Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. ISBN 83-01-06458-7. OCLC 16094765.