Iosif Langbard
Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (January 6, 1882 in Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate – January 3, 1951 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).
Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk.[1][2] Langbard also worked on buildings in Kyiv after it became the Ukrainian capital,[3] such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Works[]
- Monument to Taras Shevchenko
Gallery[]
Foreign Ministry, Kyiv
Oblispolkom, Mogilev
Officer's House, Minsk
Government House, Minsk
Government House, Minsk
References[]
- ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia Langbard, Iosif Grigor’evich
- ^ Centropa: a journal of central European architecture and related arts:4 2004 "Almost all these buildings were designed by the architect Iosiph Langbard. The light grey facades of the mostly simple ground-plans of the buildings are remarkable examples of architecture representing a cross between Russian ..."
- ^ Kiev Ancient and Modern City Mykola Fedorovych Kotliar, "After the Ukrainian capital was moved to Kiev construction started on the central government square over the Dnieper Hills (architect IG Langbard). "
External links[]
- Архитектор Иосиф Григорьевич Лангбард (1882—1951). К 125- летию со дня рождения (in Russian)
- Биографическая статья в журнале «Мишпоха» (in Russian)
- Творчество архитектора И. Г. Лангбарда (in Russian)
- Архитектор Иосиф Лангбард (in Russian)
- ТРУДОВАЯ КНИЖКА ИОСИФА ЛАНГБАРДА, ИЛИ ИСТОРИЯ О ТОМ, КАК В МИНСК ВЕРНУЛСЯ АРХИВ ЛЕГЕНДАРНОГО ЗОДЧЕГО (in Russian)
- Дом офицеров в Минске. История и настоящее (in Russian)
- 1882 births
- 1951 deaths
- People from Bielsk Podlaski
- People from Belsky Uyezd (Grodno Governorate)
- Jews of the Russian Empire
- Belarusian architects
- Soviet architects
- Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery