Adam Idzkowski ( Polish Adam Idźkowski ; December 24, 1798 , p. Olshanka, New East Prussia , Kingdom of Prussia - May 3, 1879 , Litin , Podolsk province , Russian Empire ) - Russian and Polish architect and theoretician of architecture, representative of late classicism .
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Biography
He graduated from the construction department of the University of Warsaw in 1824. During his studies, a talented student attracted the attention of the Minister of Finance, Prince F.K.Drutsky-Lyubetsky , thanks to whom he received a government scholarship for further studies in Italy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence , of which he became subsequently.
After returning to his homeland, he was appointed construction assessor at the Commission of Confession and Public Education. Pupil and follower of Antonio Corazzi .
In the 1840s he worked as an architect and builder of the imperial castle and palaces in Warsaw and Skierniewice .
Selected Works
The author of the projects of many palaces in Lithuania , Belarus , Mazovia and other places of the Russian Empire .
- In 1837, architect Adam Idzkowski developed a project for the reconstruction of the Saxon Palace . Instead of the destroyed middle part of the building, the architect built a colonnade on eleven arcades in 1839-1842. The facades of the palace were rebuilt in the style of classicism .
- rebuilt St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Warsaw in the style of English Gothic (1836-1840).
- In the 1840s, according to the designs of Adam Idzkovsky, the outbuilding and the tower were added to the central part of the Gomel palace , built under P. A. Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky and bought by I. Paskevich , and a magnificent park was created at the same time. Now the architectural and park ensemble is the visiting card of Gomel.
- designed the Warsaw hospital of st. Lazarus
- project of the imperial palace on Povonzky,
- rebuilt the church of st. Lavra in Warsaw in the church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in 1841.
- the author of the pedestal of the monument to Copernicus (sculptor Thorvaldsen )
- in 1828 he developed a project for the construction of a tunnel under the Vistula River to connect Warsaw with Prague , the historic district of the Polish capital - a suburb located on the right bank of the river (the project was not implemented due to lack of funds).
- in 1843 he developed a draft mausoleum for the emperor Napoleon, and much more.
Saxon Palace circa 1890
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Warsaw)
Church of St. Lavra in Warsaw (former church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God)
Monument to Copernicus
Reconstruction project of the Royal Palace in Warsaw
Palace of the Rumyantsevs - Paskevichs
Literature
- Encyklopedia Warszawy. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1994, s. 270. ISBN 83-01-08836-2 .