Rudolf Kern Building

Rudolf Kern Tenement
Kamienica Rudolfa Kerna w Bydgoszczy

Tenement from Gdanska Street

Tenement from Gdanska Street
Location within Poland
General information
Type Tenement
Architectural style Art Nouveau
Classification N°601377-Reg.A/1086, 20th November 1995[1]
Location Mickiewicz Alley 1, at the intersection with Gdanska Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Coordinates 53°7′55″N 18°0′36″E / 53.13194°N 18.01000°E / 53.13194; 18.01000
Groundbreaking 1903
Completed 1904
Client Rudolf Kern
Technical details
Floor count 5
Design and construction
Architect Rudolf Kern
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Rudolf Kern Tenement is a habitation building located at Mickiewicz Alley 1, in Bydgoszcz.

Location

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdanska Street at the intersection with Mickiewicz Alley. It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:

History

The house was built in 1903–1904, designed by the architect Rudolf Kern, a student of Józef Święcicki who also erected or redesigned other buildings in Gdańska Street:[2]

Rudolf Kern has originally erected the tenement for his own use, private and business: he has lived there until 1922.

On the lot, before the building, was a pub or tavern (German: wirtschaft).[3] This made the area prone to leisure, as Rudolf Kern also designed the Eduard Schulz Tenement on the other side of the intersection (Gdanska st.68/66), where a theatre and a restaurant existed since the end of the 19th century.

Features

The building has a decorative Art Nouveau facade, with a large and impressive building consisting of four main floors and one hidden in the upper roof. In a way its size balances the symmetry with the opposite building.

It is characterized by an asymmetric arrangement of loggia and bays, typical decorative elements including leaf and tendril motifs, intertwined organic forms, mostly curvaceous in shape.[4]

Notable Elements:

- low-relief adorned gate;

- large threatening masks on the facade;

- many interior design original elements such as staircase, stained glass, woodwork.

The building has been put on the Pomeranian heritage list (N°601377-Reg.A/1086, 20 November 1995.[1]

Gallery

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Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 zabytek|kujawsko-pomorskie|issued=1.03.2014
  2. Iwona Jastrzębska-Puzowska: Od miasteczka do metropolii. Rozwój architektoniczny i urbanistyczny Bydgoszczy w latach 1850–1920.
  3. The manager was 'Emil Manthei'/Einwohner-, Adress- und Telefonbücher von Bromberg, 1900, p126
  4. "Art Nouveau Design: Characteristics, History, Artists". visual-arts-cork.com. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
Panorama on Gdanska Street intersection with Mickiewicz alley, the building on the left
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