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Lviv Heritage bureau

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Stefaniia Topylko – Director of Heritage Bureau

Lviv Heritage bureau
20 Valova St.,
Lviv 79008
UKRAINE

phone +38 0322 975 132

mail lkpheritage@gmail.com

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In the flourishing period of Secession (the end of 19th – early 20th centuries), Lviv was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city was actively developing. The discovery of oil and gas fields in the mid-19th century in the Precarpathian region contributed to the opening of foreign banks’ offices in Lviv. The development of educational institutions required the construction of dormitories for students. The population of the city was quickly increasing. All this led to a construction boom in Lviv, which was accompanied by a pursuit for a new style.

Major artists

Jan Daschek

Blacksmith

Modest Sosenko

Painter

Feliks Wygrzywalski

Painter

Jan Henryk Rosen

painter

August Bogochwalski

Sculptor

Alfred Zachariewicz

Architect

Oleksandr Lushpynskyi

Architect

Ivan Levynskiy

Architect

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For the first time in the history of construction in Lviv, the new style came into fashion without delay, synchronously with its appearance in Europe. It got the name Secession, as it was called in Austro-Hungarian Empire. Secession in Lviv developed in two directions: international, which imitated the European features of this style, and national, which reflected on the folk architecture of different nationalities living in Lviv at that time: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. So, the multinationality of Lviv was reflected in its architecture. For example, architect and entrepreneur Ivan Levynskyi founded an architectural bureau in 1881.

He brought together a whole host of young architects, who designed numerous buildings in the Hutsulian Secession style, such as the Dnister insurance company, the gymnasium of the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society, etc. Motifs of the Zakopane (Polish folk) style were also popular in Lviv. Villa of L. Heller, Villa Maria of N. Luszkiewicz, and a number of tenement houses have Zakopane features expressed in rich carved wooden decor and solar signs. The Jewish Secession was characterised by oriental ornaments, the wavy shape of the attics, and other features related to religious traditions.