Zygmunt Gawlik - architekt, artysta, konserwator

Zygmunt Gawlik (1895-1961) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow where he studied in the department of architecture, sculpture (with X. Dunikowski) and painting (with F. Pautsch). He specialized in designing churches and upon the threshold of his professional career he won a competition for the project of a cathedral in Katowice (1925). Alongside the erection of new buildings Zygmunt Gawlik also pursued the adaptation and expansion of existing churches and monasteries (in the southern dioceses of Poland). Co-operating with the Office of the Conservator of Historical Monuments in Cracow, Zygmunt Gawlik initially made numerous inventory measurements of wooden and brick village churches. With time, he supervised the conservation of select monuments, and conducted their thorough examination. Zygmunt Gawlik devoted much attention in particular to small churches of Romanesque or Early Gothic origin.