sgraffito decoration at Miszewskiego 15

Technique: decorative wall painting

Material: coloured plaster

Object:

The façade of the tenement house on Miszewskiego is clearly divided into two zones: the lower zone consisting of a high ground floor with a semi-circular gate passage, whose façade is in turn divided by engraved horizontal stripes along its entire length, and the upper zone above the clearly marked cornice line of the two-storey residential section distinguished by a distinctive, graphic sgraffito with a bright drawing on a powder-pink background. Along the outer edges of the windows are symmetrically placed vertical pairs of panels with images of semi-nude men and women in motion, stylised after antique works of art, and two geometric panelling designs surrounded by single images of figures in a semi-recumbent position (with legs bent and arms supported by the ground) have been integrated into the spaces between the storeys. There is a geometric frieze pattern above the top floor windows.

Place:

The sgraffito decoration is located on a tenement house at 15 ks. Leona Miszewskiego Street in Lower Wrzeszcz. The building forms a link between the former Dom Książki (House of Books, corner of al. Grunwaldzka and ks. Leona Miszewskiego) and a four-storey residential development, part of a prestigious development built during the Socialist Realist period, the Grunwaldzka Dzielnica Mieszkaniowa (GDM).

Condition of the object: good

Owner/guardian: private facility

Author of the entry: Andrzej Zagrobelny