Henryk Hirszenberg (1885–1955) i środowisko żydowskich architektów Łodzi
Henryk Hirszenberg (1885–1955) i środowisko żydowskich architektów Łodzi

Author(s): Krzysztof Stefański
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Polish architecture; architecture of Lodz; modernist architecture; Henryk Hirszenberg; Jewish architects
Summary/Abstract: One of the special features of Łódź at the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century (until 1939) was a considerable involvement of the Jewish community in the city’s artistic life. This is the first book to focus on the Jewish architects active in Łódź, who played a major role in shaping the city’s urban fabric of the time.The first chapter, “The artistic life of Łódź at the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century,” sketches a broad background of artistic activity in the city towards the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century and presents the development of the local artistic and architectural community. Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted to the main subject of the book, that is, the activity of Jewish architects in Łódź. Chapter 2 focuses on the period leading up to World War I, beginning with Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger, Dawid Landé and Adolf Zeligson.Chapter 3 presents the work of Jewish architects in the interwar period. Many new Jewish architects appeared at that time, including: Adolf Goldberg, Paweł Lewy, Henryk Lewinson, Rudolf Sunderland and Abram Markusfeld. Jewish architects significantly contributed to the development of modernist architecture in Łódź. Those architects played a major role in the second half of the 1930s – they were: Henryk Lewinson, Paweł Lewy, Ignacy Gutman and Ludwik Oli, Jerzy Müntz, Ludwik Kirszbaum, Izydor Feinberg, Mieczysław Łęczycki and Jerzy Müntz.Chapter 4 is devoted to Henryk Hirszenberg (1885–1955), a person with an intriguing life and an interesting artistic oeuvre. In 1936 Hirszenberg emigrated to Palestine where he worked as an architect and died in 1955.

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