Aage from Kauffmann

Aage von Kauffmann (born June 14, 1852 in Copenhagen , † June 2, 1922 in Vedbæk / Rudersdal Kommune ; full name: Aage Basse Gustav von Kauffmann ) was a Danish architect who worked in the Rhine-Main area , especially in Frankfurt am Main , was very successful.

ancestors

His grandfather was Nicolaus Gustav Hermann Kauffmann (born July 25, 1792 in Friedrichsort near Kiel , † October 14, 1850 in Kiel). He was in command of the citadel there and married to Maria Sophia Friederica Falkenberg (born December 8, 1797 in Rendsburg , † January 5, 1877 in Kiel). They had two sons.

The older son was his father, the general à la suite (only title, no use) and chamberlain to the Danish King Christian IX. , Heinrich August Theodor von Kauffmann (born April 13, 1819 in Rendsburg, † June 17, 1905 in Grimmershus near Middelfart ). His mother was Jensine Louise Mathilde Fønss (born November 6, 1829 in Hindsgavl, † February 4, 1904 in Grimmershus near Middelfart). The father was from 1855 to 1860 bailiff of the offices of Kiel, Kronshagen and Bordesholm , curator of the University of Kiel and chief director of the city of Kiel.

The younger son was his uncle Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Kauffmann (born March 25, 1821 in Rendsburg, † January 17, 1892 in Porthus Fredensborg). He was temporarily Minister of War under the Danish King Christian IX. Since 1847 he was married to Annette Angelique Tronier (born November 17, 1828 in Copenhagen, † February 16, 1900 in Frederiksberg ).

wife

At the age of 35, he married the then 21-year-old Mathilde Bertha Louise Freiin von Bernus (born February 15, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main, † March 23, 1922 in Vedbæk), whose family belonged to the Frankfurt upper bourgeoisie . Their daughter Bettina Helene Mathilde von Kauffmann (born July 14, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main; † January 3, 1937 in Barritskov) had been married to Hofjägermeister Knud Henrik Otto Brockenhuus-Schack (born October 4, 1885 in Spanager) since 1919 whom she had two children.

Life

Kauffmann grew up in Copenhagen and attended high school there until he was 15 . He moved from Denmark to Switzerland , where from 1867, first in Lausanne, he studied at the cantonal Ecole Industrielle and from 1870 to 1874 at the Polytechnic University of Zurich, initially engineering and later architecture . In Zurich he met Karl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli , in whose Frankfurt office he was employed in 1874. From 1879 he worked independently, between 1884 and 1896 in shared office with the Frankfurt architect Ludwig Neher , from 1896 again alone. In 1904 he left Frankfurt am Main with his family and went back to Copenhagen, where Aage von Kauffmann died in 1922. His grave is in Taarbæk on Taarbæk Kirkegård .

Buildings and designs (selection)

1882: Landhaus Schardau in Falkenstein (Taunus) for Emil Moritz Freiherr von Bernus
1883: Evangelical Christ Church in Frankfurt-Westend , Beethovenplatz
1883–1885: Protestant Martinskirche in Darmstadt
1884: Apartment building in Frankfurt am Main, Untermainkai 29/30 (together with Ludwig Neher)
1885: Protestant parish church (village church) in Rauischholzhausen near Kirchhain
1886: Apartment building in Frankfurt am Main, Grüneburgweg 113/115
1886: Villa Varrentrapp in Frankfurt am Main (together with Ludwig Neher, under monument protection)
1887–1889: Villa Kissel in Frankfurt am Main (together with Ludwig Neher, under monument protection)
1889–1892: Bank building in Frankfurt am Main, Neue Mainzer Straße 59 (together with Ludwig Neher)
1890–1891: Villa Pflugensberg in Eisenach , Dr.-Moritz-Mitzenheim-Straße 2a (together with Ludwig Neher)
1891–1893: Evangelical Luther Church in Frankfurt am Main, Bornheimer Heide (together with Ludwig Neher)
1891–1892: Palais Reichenbach-Lessonitz in Frankfurt am Main, Taunusanlage 14 (not preserved)
1898: Villa Guaita in Kronberg im Taunus (together with Ludwig Neher)
1899: German Evangelical Church on the island of Capri , Via Tragara 7a
1902: Apartment building in Frankfurt am Main, Kaiserstraße 27
1902: Villa Mumm in Frankfurt am Main
1903: Immanuelkirche in Frankfurt am Main, today: Epiphaniaskirche

Landhaus Schardau in Falkenstein (Taunus)
Landhaus Schardau in Falkenstein (Taunus)
Listed gatehouse of the Schardau country house in Falkenstein, Reichenbachweg 24a
Christ Church on Beethovenplatz in Frankfurt am Main
House Untermainkai 29/30 in Frankfurt am Main
Palais Reichenbach-Lessonitz, Taunusanlage 14 in Frankfurt am Main
Villa Guaita in Kronberg im Taunus
House at Kaiserstraße 27 in Frankfurt am Main
Luther Church in Ffm-Bornheim, 1891–93
Villa on the Pflugensberg in Eisenach

Fonts

As a retrospective, von Kauffmann published a portfolio with 40 large-format panels in the Stuttgart Architektur-Verlag by Wilhelm Kick in 1902 :

Modern country houses. Nature photographs of facades and interiors with floor plans by architect A. von Kauffmann in Frankfurt a. M. Stuttgart 1902.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Knerger.de: The grave of Aage von Kauffmann
↑ The Martinskirche. Retrieved February 18, 2011 .
↑ The sparkling legacy - Frankfurt's Villa Mumm. Retrieved February 18, 2011 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kauffmann, Aage von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kauffmann, Aage Basse Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish architect
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1922
Place of death	Vedbæk / Rudersdal

[1] Knerger.de: The grave of Aage von Kauffmann

[2] The Martinskirche. Retrieved February 18, 2011 .

[3] The sparkling legacy - Frankfurt's Villa Mumm. Retrieved February 18, 2011 .