{"id":3965,"date":"2022-12-28T18:09:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/?post_type=object&p=3965"},"modified":"2022-12-28T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T17:09:21","slug":"facade-decoration-at-44-szeroka-st","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/obiekt\/facade-decoration-at-44-szeroka-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Fa\u00e7ade decoration at 44 Szeroka St."},"content":{"rendered":"

Technique: <\/strong>painting<\/p>\n

Object:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the two historicist fa\u00e7ades covering a block of flats built as part of the post-war reconstruction of Gda\u0144sk. In 2015, the fa\u00e7ade underwent a major refurbishment under the \u2018Gda\u0144skie Fasady OdNowa\u2019 project, which aimed to improve the quality of public spaces in G\u0142\u00f3wne Miasto by adding architectural decoration to existing buildings that were omitted during Gda\u0144sk\u2019s reconstruction.<\/p>\n

The eastern, triaxial fa\u00e7ade gained a painted decoration. In the gable end between the fourth and fifth storeys, a strip of inter-window space was covered with a maritime scene showing three fishing boats. Above the central one is a tondo with an allegorical figure of a woman. The entire premise is maintained in grisaille.<\/p>\n

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Place:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The building is located in an area designated as a heritage site. It forms part of the historic urban layout of Gda\u0144sk. Szeroka Street was destroyed in 1945 during World War II. Most of the tenement houses were rebuilt without respecting the historical layout. Historic remnants can only be seen in the distinction of the separate fa\u00e7ades with gables and in the ridge layout perpendicular to the street. The height and width of the buildings were standardised, and consequently, the historic parcelling was not maintained. Retail and service units were located in the ground floor. Szeroka Street acts as a boundary between the historicising reconstruction and modern development: a place where the two ways of post-war reconstruction intertwine.<\/p>\n

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Information about the author: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Rafa\u0142 Roskowi\u0144ski <\/strong>(b. 1966) graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Graphics of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk. He earned his MA in 1990 from Professor Jerzy Zab\u0142ocki\u2019s studio. In 2016, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska in Lublin. Between 1990 and 1992, he worked as an assistant in the painting studios of the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts and Design and Interior Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk. He currently works at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UMCS in Lublin. Roskowi\u0144ski was one of the pioneers of the artistic mural in Poland. He was active in the public space in the 1980s and 1990s. To commemorate the 1000th<\/sup> anniversary of the city of Gda\u0144sk in 1997, he organised the international Monumental Art festival, which resulted in ten works on the fa\u00e7ades of buildings in the Zaspa district. The Monumental Art festival organised since 2009 is a follow-up of this event. Roskowi\u0144ski is the founder and supervisor of the Gda\u0144sk School of Murals and holder of the ‘Splendor Gedanensis’ Award for Culture of the City of Gda\u0144sk (2010).<\/p>\n

Condition of the object: <\/strong>good<\/p>\n

Owner\/guardian: <\/strong>Ankra<\/p>\n

Author of the entry:<\/strong> Noemi Etush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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