Albert Schmidt (architect)

Albert Schmidt

Albert Schmidt (born September 15, 1841 in Sonneberg , † April 16, 1913 in Munich ) was a German architect and building contractor .

Life

After attending the Sonneberg elementary school and high school, Schmidt initially gave in to his father's will and began a commercial apprenticeship. In the middle of his apprenticeship he broke off this and then took an apprenticeship in his father's construction business. In 1865, after his marriage to his cousin Adelheid Hutschenreuther, he moved to Munich , where he initially worked as a bricklayer and attended construction schools in the evening. There he got to know the well-known master builder Rudolf Gottgetreu , who employed Schmidt for several years as a private assistant at the Munich Polytechnic . He used his salary to finance study trips to Prague and Italy , from where he brought back some cityscapes and self-made watercolors , which were exhibited at the Munich Art Association. Schmidt also completed his training under Gottgetreu's direction. In 1870 he became a partner in the “Del Bondio” construction business and managed it as a leading architect. Two years later he founded his own construction business, to which he added other Munich and Sonneberg construction businesses as a result of large construction contracts.

Schmidt's first wife died in 1872, with whom he had three children. He later married Franziska Mathilde from Munich. Another twelve children were born from this marriage. Schmidt died in 1913 after a serious operation in the Carolinum private clinic in Munich.

Honors

Many honors and state medals were the result of Schmidt's many years of activity as an architect and artist . He was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and received the "Bavarian Golden Medal for Art and Science", "Royal Professor" (1888), the Knight's Cross First Class of the Royal Bavarian Order of St. Michael (1879), "Knight's Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernstin 'First Class" (1901), received the "Ducal Saxon Cross of Merit for Art and Science" (1906) and the Prince Regent Luitpold Medal with the crown in silver (1911).

buildings

On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the “ Deutsche Bauzeitung ” wrote: “[His work] encompasses all types of buildings, both profane and sacred”. In 1888 the Israelite religious community entrusted him with the construction of their new synagogue . After its completion, he received the order from the Protestant parish in Munich to build a large church, the St. Lukas Church (1893-1896). In 1894 the Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in Tegernsee , built according to his plans, was completed.

Furthermore, to call in Munich, Gasthof Stachus, the department store Kustermann, the Lowenbrau Keller (1882-1883), the building of Deutsche Bank (1896-1898), the building of the Bank for Trade and Industry , the High Castle Pähl bei Weilheim (1883 –1885), Oberfrauenau Castle in the Bavarian Forest (1875–1884) and the buildings of the Bayerische Staatsbank in Munich (1893–94 and 1907–08), Augsburg and Ludwigshafen. In Sonneberg , Schmidt built the Villa Craemer, today's Sonneberg Music School, today's kindergarten in Schanzstrasse, numerous residential buildings, plus operating facilities such as B. the power station in the Betelheckerstrasse as well as the sun and eagle pharmacy and last but not least the German toy museum . The Lohau School marked the end of his work in Sonneberg.

Web links

• Albert Schmidt. In: mediaTUM - Document and publication server of the Technical University of Munich. Holdings of the architecture museum. TUM University Library, accessed on March 18, 2013 (with digitized architectural drawings of the Main Synagogue in Munich and the Church of St. Luke in Munich). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guided tour through the Christ Church Tegernsee , accessed on January 11, 2018 from the parish
2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Bavarian Monument List . Munich Architectural Monuments, March 29, 2013, margin number D-1-62-000-3230, p. 475 ( geodaten.bayern.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ; retrieved on March 29, 2013] dynamically generated directory updated daily, number of pages may be subject to change).