Bust of Józef Szanajca

Bust of Józef Szanajca
	The monument in 2019.
	52°15′39″N 21°01′26″E / 52.26083°N 21.02389°E
Location	Sznajcy Street, Praga-North, Warsaw, Poland
Designer	Bohdan Lachert
Type	Bust
Material	Iron (bust); granite (pedestal);
Opening date	24 September 1979
Dedicated to	Józef Szanajca

The bust of Józef Szanajca (Polish: popiersie Józefa Szanajcy) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, placed at the corner of Sznajcy and Jagiellońska Street, within the neighbourhood of New Praga, of the district of Praga-North. It is dedicated to Józef Szanajca, a 19th- and 20th-century architect, and one of the most influential artists of the modernist movement in Poland. The original sculpture was designed by Bohdan Lachert in 1944, while the monument was unvailed on 24 September 1979.

History

The bust sculpture of Józef Sznajca was originally commissioned by his friend, Bohdan Lachert, with sculpturor Zofia Trzcińska-Kamińska in 1939. However, after received work was deemed by him unsatisfactory, he decided to made it himself. Lachert worked on it between 1943 and 1944, in his house on Katowicka Street in the neighbourhood of Saska Kępa.^[1] The original gypsum model remains in the collection of the Association of Polish Architects in the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw.^[2]

The monument was unvailed on 24 September 1979. Original bust, cast in bronze by Bracia Łopieńscy workshop, was stollen, and replaced with an iron one instead.^[2]^[3]

Design

The monument consists of a small iron bust of Józef Szanajca, installed on a side of a tall granite plinth. It features a plaque, with the following inscription:^[2]^[4]

Polish inspiration:
Józef Szanajca. Architekt, ur. 1902, poległ pod Płazowem 24.IX.1939. Przyjaciela rzeźbił Bohdan Lachert

English translation:
Józef Szanajca. Architect, born in 1902, fallen near Płazów on 24 September 1939. Sculptured by his friend, Bohdan Lachert.

References

^ Beata Chomątowska: Lachert i Szanajca. Architekci awangardy. Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2014, pp. 245–246. ISBN 978-83-7536-837-6. (in Polish)
^ ^a ^b ^c Beata Chomątowska: Lachert i Szanajca. Architekci awangardy. Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2014, pp. 303–305. ISBN 978-83-7536-837-6. (in Polish)
^ Zofia Rojek. "Popiersie Józefa Szanajcy". kolekcje.muzeumwarszawy.pl (in Polish).
^ Stanisław Ciepłowski: Napisy pamiątkowe w Warszawie XVII-XX w. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1987, p. 208. ISBN 9788301061098 (in Polish)

[chom1-1] Beata Chomątowska: Lachert i Szanajca. Architekci awangardy. Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2014, pp. 245–246. ISBN 978-83-7536-837-6. (in Polish)

[chom2-2] Beata Chomątowska: Lachert i Szanajca. Architekci awangardy. Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2014, pp. 303–305. ISBN 978-83-7536-837-6. (in Polish)

[3] Zofia Rojek. "Popiersie Józefa Szanajcy". kolekcje.muzeumwarszawy.pl (in Polish).

[4] Stanisław Ciepłowski: Napisy pamiątkowe w Warszawie XVII-XX w. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1987, p. 208. ISBN 9788301061098 (in Polish)

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