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View of the Destroyed Defensive Castle

Julian Zachariewicz

Basic information

ID: Г-I-370
Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Name: View of the Destroyed Defensive Castle
Date of creation: 1857
Country: Austrian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 18.1 x 25.8

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: architectural landscape
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1898
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz (17 July 1837, Lviv – 27 December 1898, Lviv) was a prominent Galician architect of Armenian origin, founder of the Lviv School of Architecture, and in 1881–1882 professor and rector of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, then the Imperial Royal Higher Technical School in Lviv. He graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy (1852–1857) and received professional training in Vienna (1858). His designs were used in the construction of the main building of the Lviv Polytechnic, the Galician Savings Bank (now the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts), the artist's studio and residence of Jan Styka (now Oleksa Novakivskyi Art and Memorial Museum), the Franciscan Church and Monastery, a number of villas of cultural and artistic personalities in the Kastelivka district of Lviv, the Choral Synagogue in Chernivtsi, the railway station in Iasi (Romania), and others. Julian Zachariewicz was the father of the architect Alfred Zachariewicz.

Object description

Against a cloudy sky, in the middle of a wasteland, sometimes overgrown with grass, one can see the ruins of a large castle consisting of several interconnected buildings. To the left of the castle is the entrance gate, which is reached by a bridge over a ditch. In the foreground on the right is the stump of a fallen tree.

Inscriptions

The signature of the author and the date "Julian O. Z. 1857" are placed in the lower central part of the painting

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery