Albert Geutebrueck

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Albert Geutebrück (portrait photo 1863)

Albert Geutebrück (* 6. January 1801 in Gotha ; † 13. March 1868 in Graz , Styria ) was a German architect of classicism in Leipzig . His large public buildings in the city center were almost all victims of the air raids on Leipzig in World War II , so that only a few of his buildings have survived.

life and work

Albert Geutebrück was one of five children of the Gotha Chamberlain Johann Gottlob Geutebrück (1762-1837) and Christiana Augusta Geutebrück, nee. Börner (1776-1836). His grandfather was Carl August Geutebrück (1726–1788), an electoral Mainz councilor and bailiff of Tonna and Georgenthal . In 1804 the family moved to Altenburg in Thuringia , then a provincial town of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . His father held the office of Vice President of the Chamber in the state administration.

In 1818 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig for law and philosophy , but shortly afterwards followed his artistic inclinations and studied at the Leipzig Art Academy . His teacher here was Carl August Benjamin Siegel (1757-1832), who he succeeded in 1823. In the same year he married Emilie Marianne Schönherr (1799–1871). The union produced five children, a daughter and four sons. In 1823 he became a teacher and head of the architecture department at the Leipzig Art Academy, which later became an independent Royal Saxon Building Trade School, which first moved to Pleißenburg in 1838 as an educational institute for architects and technical building trades . Its first director was Geutebrück from 1838 to 1863. Albert Geutebrück was also a university master builder and temporarily from 1827 to 1848 city planning director in Leipzig.

The first building by Geutebrück in Leipzig was commissioned by Johann Heinrich Sander on the site of the Rannische Badestube, which was demolished in 1825 . The house was named Großer Blumenberg after the former previous owner of the site in the 16th century, Tiburtius Blumenberg . The residential and commercial building, completed in 1832, with plastered ashlar on the facade on the ground floor area, a central projection with four pilasters with Corinthian capitals , triangular gable and tympanum , had a two-storey coach house in the courtyard (designed as a half-timbered building ), which was also designed by Geutebrück. The great similarity between the Großer Blumenberg house and Geutebrück's design for the Augusteum, which was completed a few years later, is unmistakable . Even the changes to the facade design of the Augusteum according to the proposal by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) cannot obscure this impression.

From the early period Geutebrück also 1833/34 for the Leipzig comes Schützengilde built clubhouse . The design proximity to the facade of the Augusteum is also striking in this building, with Schinkel's facade design evidently being the inspiration for the Augusteum. At this point in time, Geutebrück Schinkel's proposed amendment was already available, which he probably also transferred to the facade design of the Schützenhaus because of its general acceptance. The structure of the central projections of both buildings is almost confusingly similar. The shapes of the triangular gables can hardly be distinguished from one another. In view of this, the Schützenhaus can not only be viewed as a forerunner, but also as a somewhat truncated variant of the Augustuem. The rifle house became part of the crystal palace complex from the 1860s . It formed its southern front on Wintergartenstrasse. Like the whole complex, the rifle house was also reduced to rubble during the air raid on December 4, 1943 .

The two most important structures in Geutebrück were on Augustusplatz in Leipzig . First, the main building of the University of Leipzig , erected between 1831 and 1836 , was named after the Saxon King Friedrich August I (1750-1827) Augusteum . However, the facade of the Augusteum is based on a proposal by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, to whom Geutebrück's design was submitted for assessment. The building was extensively redesigned from 1893 to 1897 by Arwed Roßbach (1844–1902); after the destruction in World War II, the ruin was demolished. Geutebrück's auditorium at the university was considered to be one of the most beautiful interiors in Leipzig.

In the years 1836 to 1838, Albert Geutebrück built the new post office building (→ main post office ), an elongated structure with a classicist column portico, diagonally across the street . The first drafts of the building came from the Dresden architect Woldemar Hermann (1807-1878), who created them free of charge in 1835 for the Leipzig bookseller Wilhelm Ambrosius Barth (1790-1851). This in turn submitted it to the ministry and left it to the Geutebrück City Planning Director for implementation without consulting Hermann. The Neue Post was also extensively rebuilt from 1881 to 1884 according to plans by Paul Richter (1859–1944) and destroyed in the Second World War. Geutebrück's buildings created the urban contours of Augustusplatz , which was laid out by Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe (1746–1816) and was once considered one of the most beautiful squares in Germany.

The building for the German Booksellers Exchange in Ritterstraße 12 at the Nikolaikirche from 1834/1836 was also destroyed in the Second World War. Only the stately community center at Großer Blumenberg (1826/1832) on Richard-Wagner-Platz and the late Classicist Royal Palace (Goethestrasse 7 / Ritterstrasse 26), built between 1860 and 1861 , which served as accommodation for the Saxon king , who was also sovereign, have survived and was the highest rector of the University of Leipzig. The building already shows stylistic elements of the Neo-Renaissance .

There was never a particularly good relationship between the city of Leipzig and Geutebrück, which is considered sensitive. Significantly, Geutebrück had decided not to apply for Leipzig citizenship. The increasing number of disputes with the city resulted from the rather meager salary , whereby Geutebrück additional tasks - such as those of the fire protection inspector - were not taken into account. Only through his work as a sought-after private architect did he have enough income.

Immediately after his retirement as director of the building trade school, he and his family left the city forever for Austria , where he died in Graz , where his son Ernst Geutebrück (* 1826) lived at the age of 67. Two days after his death, he was buried on March 15, 1868 in the Protestant cemetery of St. Peter von Graz .

Honors

Buildings (selection)

Selection according to Hartung

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Builder of Classicism in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9 , p. 90 f.
  2. ↑ Eckhart Schleinitz and Michael Schleinitz (eds.), Woldemar Hermann: Diary of my sphere of activity in architecture. Hermann's construction diary from 1826 to 1847. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 978-3-933753-88-5 , pp. 46–50.
  3. ↑ Bernd Haube: In memoriam Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868). In: Altenburger Geschichts- und Hauskalender , 2002, p. 168
  4. ↑ Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Builder of Classicism in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9 , p. 123
  5. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Edited by the Leipzig City Archives , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 82 f.
  6. ↑ Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Builder of Classicism in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9 , p. 142

literature

  • Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Builder of Classicism in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9
  • Descendants of the hat dresser Heinrich Geutebrück from Eckesey (Grafschaft Mark). In: Family and History, Booklets for Family Research in the Saxon-Thuringian Region , Booklet 4 (October – December 2000)
  • Wolfram Sturm: History of the Leipziger Post from the beginning to the present. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-936508-28-4
  • Bernd Haube: In memoriam Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868). In: Altenburger Geschichts- und Hauskalender , 2002, pp. 165–168

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personal data
SURNAME Geutebrueck, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1868
Place of death Graz , Styria