Świdermajer

{{short description|Style of architecture unique to Warsaw, Józefów and Otwock in Poland}}

{{Infobox art movement

| name = Świdermajer

| image = Willa lodusienka.jpg

| caption = Villa Lodusieńka in Radość, Warsaw

| location = Warsaw, Józefów and Otwock in Poland

| majorfigures = Michał Elwiro Andriolli

| influences = Biedermeier

}}

Świdermajer ({{IPA|pl|ɕfidɛrˈmajɛr|pron}}) is a distinct Polish architectural style developed in late 19th and early 20th century in Masovia along the railroad linking Warsaw with Otwock. The style was applied almost exclusively to wooden villas of the middle classes. The buildings are located in right-bank Warsaw, Józefów and Otwock.

Origins

File:PL Otwock 23 Kościelna Street.jpg in Otwock]]

The name Świdermajer was a play on the words "Biedermeier" and "Świder", the latter being the name of both a river along which a number of villas were built and a village between Warsaw and Otwock considered the 'Świdermajer capital'. As local neologism, the word was popularized by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński in an epigram called Wycieczka do Świdra.Robert Lewandowski, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170915134633/http://swidermajer.pl/ Strona o architekturze świdermajer.] Home, Internet Archive.

Developed by Michał Elwiro Andriolli, the style combined traditional elements of local wooden architecture with the Swiss style popular after the world fair in Vienna of 1873 (wide roofs), Russian traditional houses of the common people (wooden porches with windows) and some elements of the decorative art from the Podhale region.Robert Lewandowski (2005), [https://web.archive.org/web/20120324054939/http://www.swidermajer.pl/index.php?id=jakbudowano Świdermajer, jak budowano.] Swidermajer.pl, Internet Archive.

References

{{in lang|pl}} [http://www.swidermajer.pl/ Świdermajer.pl]
{{in lang|pl}} [http://www.swidermajer.info/index1.html Swidermajer gallery, info] and [http://www.swidermajer.info/prasa.html collection of media]
{{in lang|pl}} [http://www.swidermajer.info/sp/slides/Dominik%20Tyralski%2001.html Photos of a typical house, and the people]

External links

[http://culture.pl/en/article/a-guide-to-the-wooden-villas-of-otwock A Guide to the Wooden Villas of Otwock]

Category:Architecture in Poland

Swidermajer

Category:Culture of Masovian Voivodeship

Category:19th-century architectural styles

Category:20th-century architectural styles