{"id":4123,"date":"2023-03-28T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/?post_type=object&p=4123"},"modified":"2023-03-28T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:07:55","slug":"sgraffito-on-the-house-of-crafts-dom-rzemieslnika","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/obiekt\/sgraffito-on-the-house-of-crafts-dom-rzemieslnika\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgraffito on the House of Crafts (Dom Rzemie\u015blnika)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Dimensions \u2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Object:<\/strong> The building at 1 Klonowa Street was designed by Stanis\u0142aw Michel for commercial and service purposes on commission from \u201cElexmetal\u201d and \u201cSp\u00f3jnia\u201d cooperatives. The decoration was designed by Ryszard Stryjec, a visual artist known as the \u201cGda\u0144sk D\u00fcrer\u201d, who created it together with Stanis\u0142aw Michel. The western fa\u00e7ade features a stylised letter \u201cR\u201d, repeated five times, symbolising craftsmanship (rzemios\u0142o<\/em>) as well as abstract decorative elements. The front fa\u00e7ade features two stripes of decorations consisting of similar panneaus, copying the rhythm of window openings. Each panneau (a decorative rectangular field) is decorated with an abstract, geometric arrangement of vertical stripes, with nine of them additionally adorned with a centred diamond emblem with the symbol of a craft discipline in the middle (e.g. scissors \u2013 symbol of a tailor, shoe \u2013 symbol of a shoemaker, leather \u2013 symbol of a leather worker). The whole arrangement employs three colours: dark grey, light grey and a shade of light ochre. The process of creating a sgraffito consisted of applying three layers of plaster, each of a different colour, and then using a stylus to cut out patterns in the plaster.<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong> In 1975, the \u201cElexmetal\u201d crafts cooperative, the \u201cSp\u00f3jnia\u201d crafts cooperative and non-associated craftsmen decided to build an office, retail and service building for their needs. The architectural design was entrusted to Stanis\u0142aw Michel, Eng. Arch., a well-known Gda\u0144sk architect (who, in addition to contributing to the reconstruction of G\u0142\u00f3wne Miasto in Gda\u0144sk and designing historically-inspired buildings, is the author of several modernist designs, such as the Olimp residential building in Wrzeszcz). The construction of Dom Rzemios\u0142 (House of Crafts) at 1 Klonowa Street was completed in 1980. In addition to the fa\u00e7ade decoration by Ryszard Stryjec, the building was given symbolic metalwork advertising signs designed by the visual artist Dobrochna Michel. Since the 1990s. the building\u2019s fa\u00e7ade was gradually covered with advertising banners, while the metalwork was replaced with other types of signage. Only in 2020, thanks to the introduction of the Gda\u0144sk Landscape Resolution, were the unsightly advertisements removed and the artistic decorations unveiled.<\/p>\n

About the author:<\/strong> Ryszard Stryjec (born in 1932 in Lipniszki, died in 1997 in Gda\u0144sk). In 1950\u201352, he studied at the Secondary School of Art Techniques in Gdynia-Or\u0142owo, then, until 1958 he studied painting under Stanis\u0142aw Teisseyre and Krystyna \u0141ada-Studnicka, and graphic arts under Zygmunt Karolak at the State School of Fine Arts (PWSSP) in Gda\u0144sk (now the Academy of Fine Arts). Between 1955 and 1962, Stryjec collaborated with the \u201cKadyny\u201d ceramic group led by Hanna \u017bu\u0142awska. In the 1960s, he worked as the graphics editor of the Gda\u0144sk monthly Litery<\/em>\u201d (Letters), he collaborated with the Pomerania <\/em>magazine of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, as well as the Morskie Publishing House. He mainly did drawings and prints, occasionally ceramics and painting, also large format ones.<\/p>\n

Object condition: <\/strong>awaiting renovation<\/p>\n

Owner\/guardian: <\/strong>\u201cElexmetal\u201d Metal and Electrotechnical Crafts Cooperative<\/p>\n

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

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