Axel Bundsen

Axel Bundsen (born January 28, 1768 in Assens , Funen Island , Denmark ; † November 2, 1832 in Hamburg ) was a Danish architect and master builder of classicism .

Axel Bundsen in front of the Gut Knoop manor

Life

Axel Bundsen was the son of the Danish merchant Petter Bondsen (also Bonnesen ) and Hedevig Lund and the older brother of the drawing teacher Jes Bundsen (1766-1829). From 1785 to 1789 he studied with the Danish court architect Peter Meyn and with Caspar Frederik Harsdorff at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen. He then went on study trips to France and Switzerland with his brother Jess . Jess Bundsen had studied painting at the academy and worked as a drawing teacher for the family of Heinrich Friedrich Graf von Baudissin (1753-1818). Count von Baudissin financially supported the two brothers' trips.

In 1795 Axel Bundsen went to Hamburg, was accepted into his brother's artistic circles and was able to join the Freemason Lodge Absolom to the three nettles . In 1801, the builder Axel Bundsen married the daughter of the gardener from Gut Knoop in Kiel.

Buildings

The manor house at Gut Knoop

The manor house of Gut Altenhof

Schleswig-Holstein

From 1792 to 1800 Axel Bundsen was commissioned by Heinrich Friedrich Graf von Baudissin and his wife Caroline Countess Baudissin , the daughter of Count Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann , to build the new mansion on Gut Knoop . He aligned the building with the mighty portico and a wide garden front to the new Eider Canal , a technical achievement that was highly regarded at the time. The main front of the new building with a flight of stairs looked towards the manor complex with its side cavalier houses . Today the building is one of the striking works of classicism in Schleswig-Holstein . The interior of the new mansion was done by the painters Giuseppe Anselmo Pellicia and Ludwig Philipp Strack and the plasterer Francesco Antonio Tadey . The manor house is surrounded by an English landscape park from 1785, which was designed by the master builder Carl Gottlob Horn . It was Horn who was originally supposed to redesign the old mansion and had already drawn up plans for it. But after the construction of the new Eider Canal, the Baudissin couple decided to build a new one.

This was followed by work on Gut Glasau (1805) in the Segeberg district and Gut Altenhof (1806) in today's Rendsburg-Eckernförde district for Cay Friedrich Graf von Reventlow (1753-1834), brother of Friedrich Karl Graf von Reventlow . Then from 1806 to 1807 the manor house was built on Gut Drält ( Schleswig-Flensburg district ).

Hamburg

On behalf of the Great Lodge of Hamburg, Axel Bundsen built the Masonic Hospital on Kleiner Schäferkamp Street in the Schanzenviertel in 1795 and the Masonic Lodge at Welckerstrasse 8 in 1799/1800.

In 1800 Bundsen created the gate chapel for the new St. Catherine's burial ground, which was then a Dammtor cemetery. It achieved the importance of a model for other gate chapels in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1819 Bundsen built the Brandt country house on Hamburg's Elbchaussee in Othmarschen (formerly Flottbeker Chaussee 186) , a two-storey villa building with a double loggia protruding in a semicircle .

Kiel

In the course of the redesign of the Düsternbrook wood , the city of Kiel commissioned Axel Bundsen in 1807 with the construction of a garden pavilion in the form of an ancient temple, which was set up as a tea house . The building stood in the park-like Marienhain on the southern slope of the wood with a view of the Kiel Fjord . The city council of Kiel donated the pavilion to the Danish Queen Marie Sophie in August 1808 on the occasion of the birth of her daughter Wilhelmine .

In the period from the spring of 1821 until the inauguration on June 24, 1822, the seaside resort at Düsternbrook in Kiel was built according to plans by Axel Bundsen. After several changes of ownership, the Prussian government acquired the site in 1865. She had the building demolished so that a naval arsenal could be built.

Flensburg cemetery chapel

Flensburg

Between 1810 and 1813, Bundsen built the classical cemetery chapel with the two double doors on the old cemetery , which is located in Flensburg on the Museumsberg . The Bundsen Chapel named after its builder is one of the architectural monuments of classicism in Schleswig-Holstein. The chapel is designed as a gate building that symbolizes the transition from this world to the hereafter . The interior design was again done by the plasterer Tadey.

Lower Saxony

By 1819, the Martinskirche was built at Ritzebüttel Castle near Cuxhaven according to Bundsen's plans. The tower was only built from 1883 to 1885.

Honors

The Axel Bundsen Foundation in Kiel was named after him. It promotes training and further education for the next generation of architects, landscape architects , interior designers and civil engineers .
The Axel-Bundsen-Ufer. in Cuxhaven got his name.

literature

Sys Hartmann: Axel Bundsen . In: Weilbach: Dansk Kunstnerleksikon . Munksgaard / Rosinante Verlag, Copenhagen 1994, ISBN 978-87-16-11206-4 (Danish).
Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrook Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Society for Kiel City History, 2010, ISSN 0173-0940 , DNB 1003714498 , p. 57-112 .
Dieter Lohmeier, Renate Paczkowski and Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer (ed.): Nordelbingen - Contributions to the history of art and culture . tape 60 . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide, ISBN 3-8042-0565-8 .
Astrid Wehser: Axel Bundsen (1768–1832) . Master's thesis at von Buttlar. University of Kiel, Institute for Art History, Kiel 1989.
Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, p. 175 ( archive.org ).
Alexandra Schwarzkopf: Axel Bundsen: around 1800. Danish-German architecture on the threshold of epochs , Kiel: Wachholtz, [2017], ISBN 978-3-529-02877-9

Web links

Architecture: Bundsen Chapel. Retrieved October 25, 2009 .

Individual evidence

↑ Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrooker Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Kiel 2010, p. 60 u. 106 .
↑ Hamburg State Archives: 622-1 / 18 Jess Bundsen, No. 12 (excerpt from the Kiel marriage register).
↑ Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrooker Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Kiel 2010, p. 57 .
↑ Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrooker Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Kiel 2010, p. 93 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bundsen, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH	Assens , Funen Island , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1832
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrooker Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Kiel 2010, p. 60 u. 106 .

[2] Hamburg State Archives: 622-1 / 18 Jess Bundsen, No. 12 (excerpt from the Kiel marriage register).

[3] Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrooker Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Kiel 2010, p. 57 .

[4] Nicole Kosmala: Axel Bundsen's classical temple in Düsternbrooker Marienhain . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 85 , no. 2 . Kiel 2010, p. 93 .