August Wilhelm Kanne

August Wilhelm Kanne (born August 17, 1784 in Leipzig ; † November 4, 1827 there ) was a German architect . He worked in Leipzig and became city planning director there.

Life and Buildings

The triumphal arch on the Leipzig market in 1818

The mayor Müller memorial

The east wing of the community school on the former Moritzbastei, designed by August Wilhelm Kanne

Kanne was married to Caroline Florentine, nee Herzog. Of the children born in this marriage, five were alive at the time of his death. In 1807 he was accepted into the Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig. After the death of the first building director in Leipzig, Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe (1746–1816), he succeeded him at the age of 32.

One of his buildings is the temporary triumphal arch for the reign of King Friedrich August of Saxony in 1818 on the Leipzig market square . There is an etching of this building by Carl Frosch .

In 1819 Kanne realized the memorial designed by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1750-1812) for the Leipzig mayor Carl Wilhelm Müller (1728-1801), under whose aegis Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe created the first parks on the Promenadenring in which the memorial opposite the main train station still stands today.

Under Dauthe, the left, western wing of the 1st Citizens' School was built from 1796 to 1804 on the foundation of the Moritzbastei, which was razed in 1792 . Due to the death of Mayor Müller (1801), the Napoleonic occupation and the consequences of the Battle of Nations of 1813, further construction was delayed. This was resumed in 1825 and now continued according to plans by August Wilhelm Kanne. The construction work lasted until 1834, beyond Kanne's death.

In an essay from 1925, Hermann Kuhn wrote:

“Only Dauthe's successor in the Leipzig building authority, the building inspector August Wilhelm Kanne, completed the school completely by 1834. In the floor plan it can be clearly seen that the construction of the right wing was done by a different architectural hand than before. Dauthe's adherence to the baroque floor plan is unmistakable, but Kanne is careful to make the floor plan as clear as possible: all rooms are almost entirely rectangular. On the outside, Kanne had to stick to the existing wing structure [...] Due to Dauthe's bad experiences with the foundations of the courtyard walls, Kanne had become more witty; he simply had the cellars underneath filled in [...] At the same time, various repairs were made to the existing parts of the building during the further expansion, since the foundation walls there had sunk again significantly over the years. "

From 1838 to 1848, some rooms in the school building were used as the first municipal picture museum. In 1875 the citizen school was converted into a "high school for women's professions". It was named “St. Anne School ”. The building was destroyed in World War II.

In 1827 the old Nikolaischule was modernized and expanded. It is believed that this happened under Kannes' direction in the last year of his life, especially the design of the auditorium on the second floor, which was restored to its old form during the restoration of the house in 1991–1994.

publication

• Johann Gottfried Holzweissig: Instructions for staircase construction for beginners and lovers of construction, especially for carpenters. With a preface by August Wilhelm Kanne. Baumgärtner, Leipzig around 1809.

literature

• Karl August Engelhardt: The golden government jubilee Sr. Königl. Majesty Friedrich August the Just. Celebrated by His loyal Saxons on September 20, 1818. Part 2: Containing the jubilation in the Meissner, Leipziger and Erzgebirge districts. Royal private Hofbuchdruckerei Dresden 1818.
• Kanne, August Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 524 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Hocquél: Glanzlichter Leipziger Baukunst . Schlütersche, 1997, ISBN 3-87706-794-8 , p. 56 ( books.google.com ).
2. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung . 1827, p. 3244 ( books.google.com ).
3. ^ The Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig, 1776–1876: Festschrift for the secular celebration on May 27 and 28, 1876 . CG Naumann, 1876, p. 109 ( books.google.com ).
4. ^ Augustusplatz, the citizen school. Retrieved May 10, 2016 . 
5. ^ Hermann Kuhn, The women's vocational school in Leipzig, a classical building. In: Messages from the Saxon Homeland Security Association. Issues 7 to 8, Dresden 1925. (online at paulinerkirche.org )
6. ^ History of the Moritzbastei. Retrieved May 11, 2016 . 
7. ↑ From the history of the old Nikolaischule. Retrieved May 11, 2016 . 
8. ↑ The old Nikolaischule. In: Richard Wagner is from Leipzig. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .