Przyczynek do biografii Bogdana Tretera

• Authors: Białkiewicz Andrzej

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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF BOGDAN TRETER

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Bogdan Treter was born in Cracow on 13.07.1886. While in Cracow, his father, Władysław Treter, a former land owner, became an officer. His mother, Wanda, nee Wyrobisz, was a teacher. The Treters traced their origin back to Poznań burghers. Going back into the past their traces can be found already in the 16th century. In 1897— 1905 B. Treter studied at the Higher Practical School in Cracow. The school provided solid education in the field of physics, chemistry, mathematics and drawing. In B. Treter’s early years of life there could be observed two factors which affected his interests. In the first place, he remained under the influence of culture and tradition of the Cracow and Podhale (i.e. the Tatra Highlands) regions. A specificity of this culture was manifested in folk artistic works, in the folk applied art and in the examples of the architecture of the last millenium. The second element in the life of a young man was theatre which developed in him a painter's alertness. We should note at this point that it was the best theatre in Poland at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. After completing the above-mentioned higher school Bogdan Treter studied painting, drawing and graphic art in the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. B. Treter studied at ateliers of the following professors: J. Mehoffer, W. Weiss, F. Ruszczyc, J. Stanisławski and he received usually good or very good marks. He had his first display at the Podhale Exhibition held in Lvov in 1911 and it covered tapestry designs (the so- called kilims), i.e. applied art. At an early stage of his independent artistic production we see B. Treter as a co-founder of a kilim-weaving workshop at Zakopane. He was quite successful in this field. In 1917 B. Treter worked under the head of J. Gałęzowski in the Office of the Committee for the Reconstruction of the Country and in the Office of Home Department. There, he got acquainted with building problems and the effects for natural environment and buildings’ aesthetical values. Then, under the head of Adolf Szyszko Bohusz, В. Treter worked in the Main Office for the Restoration of the Royal Castle at Wawel. He carried out inventory works and made designs of decorative art and architecture. From 1919 to 1924 B. Treter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture. In 1930 he passed his diplomma examination a t the Lvov Technical University and acquired a degree of architectural engineer. From 1925 on he lectured and had classes at the Academy of Fine Arts Apart from kilims, B. Treter designed also interiors. In 1925 at the Universal Country's Exhibition held in Poznań he displayed his works. An important place in his artistic production was occupied by metal objects such as rector’s chains for universities in Vilnius and Lvov, for the Mining and Metallurgie Academy in Cracow, anniversary plates, lamps, applied graphics, altars in wood. All these works were always characterized by a sense of the material, understanding of the stylization and synthesis of the form. In 1931 B. Treter was entrusted with the function of the head of Arts Department in Cracow's Voivodship Office. He was exceptionally well prepared to fulfill the duties of monuments’ conservator: he was a painter, graphic artist and architect. He considered problems of monuments protection together with problems of natural protection. The results of his conservation activities in the years 1931— 1939 (except for a 1937— 1938 break when he was transferred to Warsaw to the post of Ministerial Inspector of Schools of Fine Arts) were well-known. During his work B. Treter entered the following Cracow districts into the monuments register: the City (Środmieście), Stradom, Kazimierz and Wawel. He enlarged the number of registered monuments from 114 to 400. He was interested in the objects that had been underestimated till then, such as monuments, bridges, cemeteries, grave-mounds, trees. Together with Wawel tapestries on September 4, 1939 B. Treter left for Bucarest. The tapestries were then transported to Canada, and Treter stayed in Bucarest till July 23, 1940. During his stay in Bucarest В. Treter wrote two articles which were published after his death: "On the Reform of the Care for Works of Art and Culture” and "Museums under the Open Sky” . Also the war time was for B. Treter a period of intensive creative invention. He designed fish stocking centres at Łopuszna and Będkowska Valley. He initiated work aimed at architectural arrangement of the Cracow Tynk. After Cracow’s liberation on February 5, 1945 B. Treter was appointed head of Culture and Arts Department for Cracow's voivodship. While fulfilling his duties, at the same time he was one of the intitatiors of bringing to life the Cracow Technical University. B. Treter died on November 12, 1945 on the eve of taking over the Faculty of Conservation at Department of Architecture at the Cracow Technical University.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1985
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17-28

Dates

published

1985

Contributors

author

Białkiewicz Andrzej

• mgr inż. arch., Politechnika Krakowska

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0029-8247