Władysław Ekielski

Władysław Ekielski (17 February 1855 – 23 June 1927) was a Polish architect active in Kraków, known for his work in the eclectic and modern style.

Biography Ekielski was born and raised in Kraków. He came from a bourgeois family. His father, Eustachy Ekielski, was a notary, and his mother was Elżbieta (née Sieradzka).

He attended the St Ann's Gymnasium. Between 1872 and 1876, he studied at the Institute of Technology in Kraków, and between 1876 and 1880 at the Construction Department of Vienna Polytechnic. After the graduation, he worked in the studio of Heinrich von Ferstel in Vienna.

In 1882, he came back to Kraków and began work with Tadeusz Stryjeński, initially as an employee, later as his partner. Together, they performed a number of competition projects in Kraków, some of which has been implemented, including the Wołodkowicze Palace in the 1880s, the Pusłowscy Palace in 1886 and the Aleksander Lubomirski Foundation Hospice (currently the main building of the Kraków University of Economics) in 1893.

In 1886, Ekielski obtained building license and started teaching as a lecturer at the Kraków Municipal School of Applied Arts (Miejska Szkoła Przemysłu Artystycznego). He was also a teacher of drawing at the k.k. College of Industry in Kraków (Wyższa Szkoła Przemysłowa).

In 1900, he co-created and became the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine The Architect (Architekt). This project has never been implemented. In 1902, together with Antoni Tuch, he set up a stained-glass plant, which in time was transformed into the Kraków Stained-Glass Plant S. G. Żeleński (Krakowski Zakład Witrażów S. G. Żeleński).

Starting 1918, Ekielski was a professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.

On 2 May 1922, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

In 1896, he married Zofia Stiasny. They had three sons and two daughters.

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