Szymon Bogumił Zug (20 February 1733 – 11 August 1807), born Simon Gottlieb Zug, and also known as Zugk, was a renowned
Polish-
German classicist
architect
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and designer of gardens. Born in
Merseburg
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in
Saxony
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, he spent most of his life in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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, where in 1768, he was
ennobled
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.
One of the most versatile and prolific architects of his epoch, Zug was the author of several dozen projects of palaces and churches. As a garden designer, he represented an early romanticist style. Among the most notable buildings designed by Zug are:
* Lutheran
Holy Trinity Church in Warsaw, also known simply as
Zug's Church (1777–1782)
*
Natolin palace (1780–1782)
*
Młociny palace (1786)
*
Blank's Palace (; 1762–1764)
*
Poniatowski's palace (1772)
* The English-Chinese Garden at
Wilanów Palace
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(1784)
[ ]
*
Fat Kaśka
Zug also supervised the refurbishment of
Warsaw Arsenal, designed the romanticist ruins in the garden of Arkadia near
Łowicz
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and designed the gardens of
Jablonna Palace. He died in
Warsaw
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and is buried there in the
Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw.
References
1733 births
1807 deaths
People from Merseburg
18th-century German architects
Architects from Warsaw
Polish Lutherans
People from the Electorate of Saxony
Polish landscape and garden designers
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