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Jerzy Sosnkowski
Picture of Jerzy Sosnkowski in the 1930s
Born	(1894-10-23)23 October 1894 Warszawa, Russian Partition  Russian Empire
Died	10 December 1954(1954-12-10) (aged 60) xx,  Argentina
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	architect
Spouse	Zofia Janicka
Children	Wacław
Parent(s)	Zofia née Drabińska and Józef Bogdan Sosnkowski
Awards

Jerzy Sosnkowski (1894-1954) was a Polish architect, interior designer and writer.

Biography

Youth

Jerzy was born on 23 October 1894 in Warsaw from Zofia née Drabińska (1858–1938) and Józef Bogdan Sosnkowski (1832–1896), a wealthy nobleman and owner of several villages.

Between 1913 and 1914, Sosnkowski lived in Lviv, then called Lemberg and capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austrian empire. There, he completed one year of architectural studies before moving to Warsaw. There, he was a member of the local Riflemen's Association (Związek Strzelecki).

First World War

During World War I, he was mobilized as an officer. He first served in the 1st Uhlan Regiment (1914-1917), then in the Chevau-léger regiment (1917-1918). After the world conflict, Jerzy continued to serve till 1923 in the 7th Uhlan Regiment of the Polish Army, where his older brother Kazimierz also served.

Sosnkowski was rewarded the Cross of Independence on 12 May 12 1931, for ""work in the effort to regain Independence"".

In 1934, as an ancient mobilized officer, he was listed in the records of the 3 Recruitment District Command of Warsaw, a military body responsible in particular for the administration of reserves. As such, Sosnkowski was assigned to the Reserve Officers' District Nr I, with the rank of Lieutenant, intended to be called back in wartime.

Art studies and works

Around 1921, together with Franciszek Biske (1895–1938), also a student of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, he founded the company "DECOR", which performed all types of works within the scope of applied artistic graphics and interior decoration. From 1923 to 1931, he was an artistic inspector of the City Council in Warsaw.

In the second half of the 1920s, he studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology (Wydział Architektury Politechniki Warszawskiej), under the supervision of architect Czesław Przybylski. Already during his studies, Jerzy Sosnkowski had been identified by Józef Gawlikowski, a Warsaw Publishing House editor, as (...) a successful architect, a theatre painter and interior decorator, an illustrator and a draftsman, appreciated in England..

He graduated in 1929. Right after (1930), he designed his first project, the Atlantic movie theater in the Polish capital, together with Juliusz Żórawski.

In 1927, he was part of the management team dealing with competitions organized at the Warsaw International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art (Międzynarodowa Wystawa Sztuki Kinematograficznej, Warszawa).

He became also a member of the Association of Polish Architects. Thanks to his brother's connections, Jerzy received military commissions from the Military Quartering Fund (Fundusz Kwaterunku Wojskowego,FKW) which resulted in the construction of a total of seven officer and non-commissioned officer residential houses built according to his designs (1929-1937). He additionally realized as well designs for furniture.

Together with Czesław Piaskowski, a Polish set designer and decorator, he created the scenography for the movie Rycerze mroku (Knights of Darkness), directed by Bruno Bredschneider and Stefan Szwarc in 1932. In this period, he also designed theatre sets and interiors. Namely, the interior of the Żywiec restaurant in Warsaw were distinctive with their streamlined shapes, used in both architectural elements and furniture.

Second world war

Jerzy Sosnkowski survived the war in occupied Warsaw. His activity during the conflict wasa very low: the only known work is illustrations for Józef Krysiński's thriller Mieszkanie przy ul. Wielka, published in Warsaw in 1941. He was arrested by the Gestapo and released in 1944.

Media

In 1931, he co-founded the magazine Wnętrze (Interior) and led it as the editor-in-chief till 1934. The aim of the publication was to promote modern, avant-garde forms, as well as to promote the best architects and designers, and to advertise professional construction companies and various manufacturers related to this field. Some of his articles on architecture and urban space appeared in the daily Kurier Warszawski. Wnętrze last issue was published in 1936.

Sosnkowski created illustrations and articles for the Tygodnik Illustrowany and Naokoło Świata, a series of travel literature published by the State Publishing House "Iskra".

In addition, he gave lectures on the radio, such as Urządzanie wnętrz mieszkaniowych" (Home interior design) in 1927 or Uroda miast portowych (The beauty of port cities) in 1929, as a brioadcast serial story.

Sosnkowski also wrote novels, short stories or illustrated other authors books. This activity mainly happened before his architectural graduation (1929).

In his books, Jerzy tackled fantasy themes, writing about still undiscovered territories, or in the case of a series of short stories Żywe powietrze, about monsters, threats from space beings in space and creatures resembling characters from H.P. Lovecraft novels. In addition, his works ridiculed satirically Janusz Meissner's style.

Works and projects

Buildings

• Atlantic movie theater in Warsaw, co-designed with Juliusz Żórawski (1930). It was the first modern sound cinema in Poland.
• residential buildings for the Military Billet Fund in Żoliborz, or in Stanisławów, Jabłonna and Góra Kalwaria.

Scenography

• Movie Rycerze mroku (1932).

Interior designs

• Furniture for the Polish high Military Academy;
• Żywiec restaurant in Warsaw (1932, non existent);
• Design of Ferdinand Foch's marshal's baton, when the latter received the title of Marshal of Poland.

Books

• Czerwone wyłogi: szkice i obrazki (Red Lapels: Sketches and Pictures) (1917).
• Jednodniówka akademicka (One-day academic) (1918).
• Dom filozofów (Philosophers' house) - short stories (1923).
• Auto, ty i ja (The car, you and me) - short stories (1925).
• Bosman Finta (Boatswain Finta) - novel (1926).
• Żywe powietrze (Living air) - novel (1926).
• Radjomiłość (Radio love) - novel (1927).
• Białe Orlę (White eagle) and Krew ziemi (The blood of the earth) (1928), didactic patriotic readings included in an anthology for school youth, commissioned by the Książnica-Atlas publishing house.

Personal life

• Jerzy Sosnkowski was issued from the Godziemba noble family, whose origin goes back to the 11 century.

• He was the younger brother of General Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885-1969), a Polish independence fighter, general and diplomat. Kazimierz was a major political figure and an accomplished commander, notable in particular for his contributions during the Polish–Soviet War and World War II. After the death of General Władysław Sikorski in July 1943, Sosnkowski became Commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces.

• He was the husband of Zofia Janicka, with whom he had a son, Wacław.

See also

• Biography
• Poland

• Kazimierz Sosnkowski
• Juliusz Żórawski
• List of Polish people

References

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3. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Krzyża Niepodległości z mieczami, Krzyża Niepodległości oraz Medalu Niepodległości [Order on awarding the Cross of Independence with Swords, the Cross of Independence and the Medal of Independence.] (in Polish). Warszawa: Ministerstwo Spraw Wojskowych. 1931. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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Bibliography

• Łoza, Stanisław (1939). Czy wiesz kto to jest? Uzupełnienia i sprostowania [Do you know who this is? Additions and corrections] (in Polish). Warszawa: Drukarnia Wydawnicza Warszawa. p. 287. Retrieved 19 January 2025.

External link

• (in Polish) List of open-access books by Jerzy Sosnkowski

• Pending AfC submissions
• Pending AfC submissions in article space