Ignacy Sowiński

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Ignacy Stanisław Sowiński (born August 30, 1858 in Cracow, died July 20, 1917) is a Polish architect in Austria. Curriculum vitae

He was the son of a Krakow café owner, and in 1876 he went to Vienna, where he studied at the Technical University under the direction of Heinrich von Fer- stel and Karl König. In 1881 he became an engineer and started working as an independent architect, six years later he was commissioned to renovate and rebuild the Evangelical-Reformed Church in Vienna. The interior was altered 180 degrees, which involved altering the arrangement of the altar and organs, a new façade with an entrance portal and a tower with a bell tower were built. From 1903 to 1908, he completed a complete reconstruction of the Wilhelminenberg Castle in Ottakring (now the district of Vienna), which consisted of dismantling a larger part of the building and constructing a neoempire style according to the Frauenfeld project, which took the form of a typical Austria's historic architecture. In addition to renovations, he has authored several publications on architecture and designed several residential houses in Vienna. In 1914 Ignacy Sowiński was sent to Cracow, where he was entrusted with supervising the renovation works at Wawel, which had the castle restored to its former glory. Bibliography

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