Anton Schnitzler

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Schnitzler's plan for the city expansion of Düsseldorf east of today's Königsallee in today's Stadtmitte district , 1841
On the left the Friedrichsbad, behind it the Palais des Count von der Groeben, around 1840
Schnitzler's input plan for the facades of the residential buildings Goltsteinstrasse 11/12 and Bleichstrasse 1 in Düsseldorf, 1862/1863
Orphanage Arrenberg (top right) in a lithograph by Wilhelm Riefstahl , 1851–1854
C. Schnitzler, grave monument (for Anton Schnitzler), Düsseldorf. (From: Architectural Sketchbook, H. 131/2, 1875)

Anton Schnitzler jun. (* August 30, 1796 in Düsseldorf ; † December 27, 1873 there ; full name: Peter Heinrich Gregor Anton Schnitzler ) was a German architect in Düsseldorf. Anton Schnitzler, a student of Adolph von Vagedes , worked as a master builder of Berlin classicism in Düsseldorf between 1825 and 1873.

Life

The father Anton Schnitzler d. Ä. (* February 21, 1756 in Glehn, † May 8, 1823 in Düsseldorf), master builder in Düsseldorf since 1778, built residential buildings in Carlstadt, which was opened up for the expansion of Düsseldorf in the 18th century . The mother was Maria Gertrudis, born Evertz (1762-1827). With his younger brother Georg Schnitzler (* May 17, 1798 in Düsseldorf; † May 12, 1834 ibid) Anton Schnitzler jun. the construction business continues.

Anton Schnitzler attended the Grand Ducal Lyceum in Düsseldorf and received an award in drawing in 1811. In 1832, Schnitzler acquired several properties on the meadow of the clerk Francken (remnant of the Bleiche on the Düssel , today Bleichstrasse / Goltsteinstrasse), which later became Goltsteinstrasse . On the corner of Logengasse (the Logengasse no longer exists today) he built the Friedrichsbad. In the bathroom there was a huge steam boiler with eight baths, including sulfur and carbonic acid baths. It was open from six in the morning until eight in the evening. Tout Düsseldorf met here: the artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , musicians including Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , later Robert Schumann , and theater people like Karl Immermann .

Friedrich von Prussia , head of the Düsseldorf garrison, lived around the corner in Jägerhof Palace since 1815 . In 1826 Anton Schnitzler was the construction manager for the two side wings of Jägerhof Palace. He later took on the job of building the interior of Rheinstein Castle from him . In 1832 he built the classical portico of the theater on Düsseldorf's market square . In 1841 Anton Schnitzler created a block of houses in Düsseldorf's Goltsteinstrasse and worked with Adolph von Vagedes and Franz Anton Umpfenbach on the development plan east of Düsseldorf's Königsallee .

In Düsseldorf he built the houses at Schwanenmarkt 8 (1836) and Poststrasse 24 (1843), the Golden Bridge in the Hofgarten (1845) and the Max School at Citadellstrasse 2b (1855/1856). In Langenberg (Rhineland) in 1847/48 he built the villa for Johann Wilhelm Colsman, Hauptstrasse 8. From 1851 to 1854, according to his plans in Arrenberg , which was part of the Düsseldorf administrative district, the municipal orphanage for up to 160 orphans was built. He was also the owner of houses 20 and 21 on Jägerhofstraße , a few houses on Alleestraße between the Hofgarten near today's Grabbeplatz , and Elberfelder Straße. Schnitzler lived in the house at Alleestraße 18 around 1865.

In 1851, Schnitzler, who was also politically active as a council member, belonged to a Düsseldorf delegation to Charlottenburg, where King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Who received and with boos and whistles in Düsseldorf on the then Kastanienallee in 1848, the year the March Revolution broke out , and with Horse droppings had been thrown at, by offering to rename the crime scene in Königsallee again.

Anton Schnitzler married Maria Constantia (1808–1886), born in January 1826. Hoffbauer from Petropol , daughter of the Royal Prussian Colonel General Franz Joseph Hoffbauer († 1838 in Düsseldorf). Schnitzler's son-in-law was the Swedish painter Carl d'Unker . He had married Schnitzler's daughter Clara in 1859. Antoinette , called Tony, another daughter of Schnitzer, who had been a private student of Karl Ferdinand's son , married the American painter Richard Caton Woodville in 1854 . Richard Caton Woodville junior , Schnitzler's London-born grandson, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the 1870s and became a well-known war painter . The son Anton Schnitzler (born September 1, 1831; † July 30, 1848), who attended Josef Wintergerst's elementary class and Rudolf Wiegmann's construction class , drowned at the age of 16 in a rescue attempt by his friend, the architect Fischer from Cologne, in the swimming pool on the Rhine .

Anton Schnitzler's grave, that of his brother Georg and the grave monument of his parents are preserved in the northern part of the Golzheimer cemetery .

See also

literature

  • Schnitzler, Peter Heinrich Gregor Anton jun. In: Short biographies of architects and builders (= Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres [Hrsg.]: Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . Volume 2 . Architecture: II, Profane Buildings and Urban Planning ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 548 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Reg.Builder Anton Schnitzler (1756-1823), Museum Kunstpalast, object number: mkp.M 4249 , on d: kult
  2. ↑ Portrait of Maria Gertrudis Evertz, Frau Reg. Baumeister Schnitzler (1762-1827), Museum Kunstpalast, object number: mkp.M 4250 , on d: kult
  3. ↑ Lower class, drawing, 1st prize, Anton Schnitzler , in the distribution of the honor books at the Lyceum in Düsseldorf on September 21, 1811
  4. ^ The Friedrichsbad, Goltsteinstrasse / corner of Victoriastrasse, Düsseldorf  in the German Digital Library
  5. ↑ Jägerhof Palace. City archive of the state capital Düsseldorf
  6. ↑ Max-Schule , excerpt from the list of monuments, monument authority state capital Düsseldorf , accessed on April 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ Elberfeld: Städtisches Waisenhaus am Arrenberg , on zeitspurensuche.de, accessed on November 16, 2017
  8. ↑ Jägerhofstrasse 20 and 21, Schnitzler, A., Eo. (= Owner, not resident) , address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf for the year 1859, p. 27
  9. ↑ H. Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf , 1890, p. 107
  10. ↑ Schnitzler, Anton, architect, Alleestr. 754; Schitzler, Gertr. Widow, Alleestr. 755 (Schnitzler's mother) , in address calendar and housing advertisements for the city of Düsseldorf and the suburbs, 1847
  11. ↑ Schnitzler, Ant., Master builder, Alleestr. 18 , in the address book of the Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1865
  12. ↑ Clemens von Looz-Corswarem: The history of the Königsallee (1): With horse droppings and whistles against the king? , Article in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on March 11, 2013.
  13. ↑ Marriages: January 6th, the builder Peter Heinrich Gregor Schnitzler, from here, Marie Constanze Hoffbauer from Petropol . In: Düsseldorfer Zeitung , No. 14, of January 14, 1826
  14. ^ House sale, judicial division: 2) the master builders Mr. Anton Schnitzler and Maria Constantia Hoffbauer living there (in Düsseldorf) as plaintiffs . In: Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region , year 1841. Oeffentlicher Anzeiger No. 29S, p. 131
  15. ^ Anton Schnitzler obituary notice, Düsseldorf, July 31, 1848. A. Schnitzler. Maria Schnitzler, b. Hoffbauer , in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 211) of August 1, 1848
  16. ↑ Photos of the grave in the northern part (field VIII) of the Golzheimer Friedhof (Düsseldorf-Golzheim), portal postmortal.de , accessed on February 28, 2013.
  17. ↑ Important tombs: Hereditary burial of the Schnitzler master builder family ; B7 / 9-14 , on “The Golzheimer Friedhof shall live eV”, accessed on November 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzler, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnitzler, Peter Heinrich Gregor Anton (full name); Schnitzler, Anton jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1873
Place of death Dusseldorf