Iosif Langbard Explained

Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (6 January 1882 in Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate – 3 January 1951 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).

Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk.^{[1] [2]} Langbard also worked on buildings in Kyiv after it became the Ukrainian capital,^[3] such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Works

• Monument to Taras Shevchenko

Gallery

External links

• Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 2. Soviet Avant-garde: 1917–1933. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2021. P. 162
• Архитектор Иосиф Григорьевич Лангбард (1882—1951). К 125- летию со дня рождения
• Биографическая статья в журнале «Мишпоха»
• Творчество архитектора И. Г. Лангбарда
• Архитектор Иосиф Лангбард
• ТРУДОВАЯ КНИЖКА ИОСИФА ЛАНГБАРДА, ИЛИ ИСТОРИЯ О ТОМ, КАК В МИНСК ВЕРНУЛСЯ АРХИВ ЛЕГЕНДАРНОГО ЗОДЧЕГО
• Дом офицеров в Минске. История и настоящее

Notes and References

1. Great Soviet Encyclopedia Langbard, Iosif Grigor’evich
2. Centropa: a journal of central European architecture and related arts:4 2004 "Almost all these buildings were designed by the architect Iosiph Langbard. The light grey facades of the mostly simple ground-plans of the buildings are remarkable examples of architecture representing a cross between Russian ..."
3. Kiev Ancient and Modern City Mykola Fedorovych Kotliar, "After the Ukrainian capital was moved to Kiev construction started on the central government square over the Dnieper Hills (architect IG Langbard). "