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Teodor Marian Talowski (born 23 March 1857 in Zasów; died 1 May 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". 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 (Polish: Lwów, German: Lemberg), 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.
Throughout his whole professional life, Talowski worked mainly in Galicia, designing public utility buildings as well as private houses. The works of Talowski are set in eclecticism, showing strong connections with historicism and Art Nouveau.
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
See also
History of Lviv
Julian Zachariewicz
References
Sources
• Maciej Gutowski, Bartłomiej Gutowski, Architektura Secesyjna w Galicji, DiG publishing, Warsaw 2001, p. 23-27 (in Polish).
External links
www.talowski.pl (in Polish)
www.talowski.prv.pl (in Polish)
Pictures of apartment buildings at Retoryka street, Kraków (in Polish)
Pictures of Talowski's churches from the Diocese of Tarnów (in Polish)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Teodor Talowski
- Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth, Lviv
- Zygmunt Gorgolewski
- Nowy Sącz
- Church of St. Mary of the Perpetual Assistance, Ternopil
- List of Polish artists
- Dąbrowski Manor, Michałowice
- Chrzanów
- Architecture of Poland
- Żeleński
