Warsaw – Southern Middletown - Three Crosses Square
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Monument of St. John of Nepomuk and destroyed St. Alexander’s Church on Three Crosses Square. View northwards.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4683Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw – Southern Middletown - Three Crosses Square
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Destroyed St. Alexander’s Church on Three Crosses Square. View northwards.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4684Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw – Southern Middletown - Three Crosses Square
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Destroyed St. Alexander’s Church on Three Crosses Square. View northwards on the remained tower.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4685Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw – Southern Middletown - Three Crosses Square
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Destroyed St. Alexander’s Church on Three Crosses Square. View in North-East direction. To the left from the tower there is an entrance to the lower church.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4687Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw – Southern Middletown - Three Crosses Square Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Destroyed St. Alexander’s Church on Three Crosses Square. View southwards. In front of the church there is a horse-drawn carriage.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4691Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw - Southern Middletown - Three Crosses Square
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Destroyed St. Alexander’s Church on Three Crosses Square. View in the North-West direction.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4692Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw – Northern Middletown – Królewska Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Crossing of Królewska and Krakowskie Przedmieście Streets. St. Joseph’s Church of the Visitationists – 34 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. On the left "Dom Bez Kantów" (House without Corners) – 11 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, corner with Królewska. On the right there are ruins of odd-numbered tenements of Królewska ...
Warsaw – Northern Middletown – Królewska Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Crossing of Królewska and Krakowskie Przedmieście Streets. St. Joseph’s Church of the Visitationists – 34 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. On the left "Dom Bez Kantów" (House without Corners) – 11 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, corner with Królewska. On the right there are ruins of odd-numbered tenements of Królewska Street.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4693Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw - Northern Middletown - Krakowskie Przedmieście Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and of St. Joseph – 52 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. In front of the church there is a procession.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4695Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw – The Old Town – Bonifraterska Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Documenting devastation – commemorative plaque on the wall of Knights Hospitallers’ Church of John of God – 12 Bonifraterska Street.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4697Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw - The Old Town – Bonifraterska Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Documenting devastation – Knights Hospitallers’ Church of John of God – 12 Bonifraterska Street.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4698Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw - The Old Town – Bonifraterska Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Documenting devastation – the interior of Knights Hospitallers’ Church of John of God - 12 Bonifraterska Street.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4701Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Warsaw - The Old Town - Bonifraterska Street
Post-war photograph. Warsaw. Documenting devastation – the interior of Knights Hospitallers’ Church of John of God - 12 Bonifraterska Street.
Inventory number: MPW-IN/4702Date taken: 1947Author: Karol Pęcherski Source: MPW
Karol Pęcherski was born in 1885 in Wieluń. His father ran a photo studio and Karol himself joined the guild of photographers in 1909. His photographs were published in newspapers beginning in early 20th century. A former legionnaire, the author often portrayed Marshall Józef Piłsudski. He also took reporter and art photographs. His large-format photograph titled "Baby" won a photographic competition in 1925. In 1923, he married his wife Maria and their only daughter Irena was born in the same year. He photographed his family often and with a sense of humour. In 1926, Pęcherski opened a photo studio at 57 Nowy Świat Street in Warsaw, and beginning in 1930 he ran a laboratory of amateur work and a photo store at 2 Mazowiecka Street, signing his works as "a modernist photographer". It was at that latter location that the outbreak of the Warsaw Rising met him. Returning to the city as early as February 1945, he started working as a documentary photographer at the Historic Architecture Department of the Capital Reconstruction Bureau, and then at the Conservator Restorer Office, where he worked until his death in 1951. He created a tremendous documentation of the conservation status of Warsaw's buildings, primarily historic ones, immediately after the war.
Post-war photographs of Warsaw taken by Karol Pęcherski comprise a consistent documentation of the city's buildings after the end of World War II. Because his photographs were taken on order of the Historic Architecture Department of the Capital Reconstruction Bureau, the collection is dominated by images of valuable and historic buildings Here, we present a selection of 1,220 most interesting ones. Although in his photographic trips the author visited virtually all areas of Warsaw, most of the photographs were taken in the Old and New Town and along the Royal Route. Interestingly, the author immortalised also those buildings that had survived the war but were later intentionally demolished during the reconstruction of the city. We can see, among others, the now demolished Walickis Palace at Senatorska Street, Badenis Palace, Taubenhaus' Townhouse, Przeździeckis Mausoleum and examples of the romantic architecture of early 19th century: the church porch of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the neo-Gothic outbuilding at St. Hyacinth's Church in the New Town.
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