Slavko Löwy

Slavko Löwy (August 7, 1904 – April 1, 1996) was a Croatian architect.

Background, family and education Löwy was born in Koprivnica to a respectable and wealthy Croatian Jewish family, who were engaged in trade. In Koprivnica he attended the gymnasium school, and after graduation in 1923, he was enrolled in the Vienna Technical College. Surviving members of his family claim that Löwy has changed, in that period, as many as 17 locations in Zagreb as he hide from Nazis and NDH regime. After the World War II things were not much better for Löwy. Under communists regime of newly founded SFR Yugoslavia he had a problems for being a Jew, but his acquaintance with sculptor Augustinčić partially helped him through those times.

Retirement and death He retired in 1966. In 1970 he was awarded with the prize of Viktor Kovačić for a lifetime achievement, and in 1977 he was also awarded with the prize of Vladimir Nazor for a lifetime achievement.

Löwy died on April 1, 1996, on the 9th floor of his apartment and studio skyscraper in Masarykova Street.

Works

Zagreb

Residential and commercial building Grünsberg, Petrićeva 7, 1932–1933. Residential and commercial building Schlenger, Bogovićeva 4, 1932–1933. Hirschler residential house, Gornje Prekrižje 2, 1932–1933. Nossan residential house, Zvonimirova 23, 1932–1933. Residential and commercial building Radovan, Masarykova 22, 1933. – 1934. Polak residential house, Tuškanova 15, 1936. – 1937. Lebinec residential house, Ribnjak 20, 1936. – 1937. Federbuš residential house, Novakova 19, 1936. – 1937. Residential and commercial building Schlenger, Boškovićeva 7b, 1936. – 1937. Wiener Bankverein residential house, Bulićeva 4, 1936. – 1937. Residential and commercial building Jadranskog osiguravajućeg društva, Draškovićeva 13, 1936. – 1937. Residential and commercial building Radovan, Savska 8, 1937. Beck residential house, Vinkovićeva 8, 1937. Prpić residential house, Solovljeva 22, 1938. Marko Kasumović villa, Njegoševa 1, 1936. - 1938. Löwy residential house, Mandrovićeva 12, 1938. – 1939. Bukovačka 149, 1941. Pichler residential house, Grškovićeva 7, 1941. Master workshop Vanje Radauša, Zmajevac 8, 1949. Master workshop Antuna Augustinčića, Jabukovac 10, 1949. Residential buildings factory „Rade Končar“, Gajnice, 1949. Residential buildings, Galjufova 4 – 12, 1949. Steiner residential house, Grškovićeva 25, 1955. Dorm „Cvjetno naselje“, Odranska 8, 1955. Nursing home „Lavoslav Švarc“, Bukovačka 55, 1955. – 1956. Economics institute, Kennedyjev trg 7, 1957. – 1963. Restaurant „Trnjanka“, Trnjanska cesta 31, 1959. – 1960. Dorm „Ante Starčević“, Ljubljanska avenija 2, 1961. Dorm „Stjepan Radić“, Horvoćanska cesta/ Jarunska cesta 2, 1961.

Croatia

Arrangement of the Jewish cemetery, Koprivnica, 1930. Memorial to the Jews who died in World War I in the town of Koprivnica cemetery, Koprivnica, 1930. Löwy family tomb, Koprivnica, 1930. Remaking of the Koprivnica Synagogue, 1937. Elektroprimorje administration building, Viktora Cara Emina 2, Rijeka, 1953. – 1955. Central substation, Grohovčeva 2, Rijeka, 1960. Dorm, I. G. Kovačića 4, Osijek, 1962. Dorm Podmurvica, Čandekova 4, Rijeka, 1963. Excursion forest management „Crna Gora“, Koprivnica, 1970. Residential family house Švarc, Krešimirov trg 5, Koprivnica, 1973. Memorial to the Jews who died in World War I in the town of Koprivnica cemetery, (modification of the monument from 1930.)

Other countries

The city public beach, Skopje, Macedonia, 1950–1951 Student village, Skopje, Macedonia, 1950–1951 Administrative centre, Skopje, Macedonia, 1952–1953 Disabled persons home, Skopje, Macedonia, 1953 City hotel with a Vardar promenade Vardar, Skopje, Macedonia Department store, Skopje, Macedonia, 1957 Federal Chamber of Commerce building, Belgrade, Serbia, 1958–1965