Ignaz Stanislaus Sowinski (; 1858–1917) was a Polish architect and journalist who was active in Galicia from the middle of the 1880s and until the outbreak of

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Life

Sowinski was born on in

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, Galicia, in what was then Austrian Poland. Between 1876 and 1881 he studied at

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and . From around 1881, he was active as a freelance architect in Vienna where he opened his own studio and occasionally also worked as a journalist. His spectrum ranged from rental houses and villas to factories. One of his most spectacular commissions was the construction of the Wilhelminenberg Castle in Vienna (1903/08). He was also active in other regions of the

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, especially in his native Kraków. From September 1913, he took part in the restoration work of the

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in Kraków and was appointed head of the company in July 1914. After the outbreak of World War I in the autumn of that year, he left Kraków again and returned to Vienna. After some of his designs had been rejected by the renovation committee, he put off his assignment in February 1916. A little over a year later, on , he died in Kraków and was buried in the

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Personal life

In 1889 he married Barbara Pammer (1860-1901). They had no children.

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