August Friedrich Viehweger

August Friedrich Viehweger (1897), with his own signature

August Friedrich Viehweger (born September 9, 1836 in Grünhain ; † January 1, 1919 in Leipzig ) was a German architect , he mainly worked in Leipzig.

Life

August Friedrich Viehweger was born in 1836 as the son of the carpenter of the same name (* 1811), who was a student at the Dresden Art Academy from 1825 to 1827 , in the Saxon Erzgebirge ; his brother was the architect Hermann Viehweger (1846–1922).

Viehweger did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer , which he completed in Chemnitz in 1857 . From 1860 to 1863 he studied at the building trade school in Dresden and in Hermann Nicolai's studio ( Semper Nicolai School ). In the winter of 1863/1864 he passed the master builder examination.

From 1864 Viehweger was a teacher at the Royal Saxon Building Trade School in Leipzig , from 1874 also a teacher for perspective, projection and shadow theory at the Royal Art Academy and School of Applied Arts in Leipzig. He exerted influence on the architects Clemens Thieme and Julius Zeißig . The August Viehweger Foundation was established in 1913. After his death in 1919 he was buried in the New Johannisfriedhof , a municipal cemetery in Leipzig.

Viehweger's life's work is considered to be the large panel atlas "Columns with and without arching" (1906, with six photo panels based on Viehweger's original drawings), which is based on decades of preliminary studies and which contains basic explanations of practical construction issues.

Buildings in Leipzig

• 1866/1867: Church in Leipzig- Portitz
• 1867: Lomer business building (with the "Gute Quelle" restaurant), Brühl 42 (destroyed in the war)
• 1871/1872 or 1879/1880: Nikolai-Gymnasium , Königstraße 30 (today Goldschmidtstraße, destroyed in the war)
• 1875/1876: Second Higher Citizens School, Lortzingstraße 3 (today Natural History Museum )
• 1876/1877: New Thomas School , Schreberstraße 9 (destroyed by the war)
• 1880/1881: Thomasalumnat , Hillerstraße 8
• 1885 and 1910: Two gasometers for the municipal gas works II in Leipzig- Connewitz , today Asisi panometer

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  Church in Portitz

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  Lomer commercial building

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  Nikolaischule Koenigstrasse

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  II. Higher Citizens School (Natural History Museum)

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  Thomas School Schreberstrasse

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  Alumnate of Thomaner Hillerstraße

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  Two gasometers
  (panometer and arena)

literature

• Ernst Sigismund : Viehweger, August Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 335 .
• Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig: Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, 2nd edition, Leipzig 2004, p. 333.
• Kerstin Hebestreit u. a. (Red.): 175 years of architecture from Leipzig. University of Technology, Economics and Culture Leipzig, Faculty of Construction, Leipzig 2013, p. 46 f.

Web links

Commons : August Friedrich Viehweger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ baunetz.de