Cajetan Baumann

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Brother Cajetan Baumann OFM (born August 3, 1899 in Grünkraut as Johann Baptist Baumann ; † May 9, 1969 in New York City ) was a German-born, American monk and architect of the Franciscan Order , who worked primarily in the USA, but also in others Countries of the American continent constructed numerous churches and religious buildings.

Life

Baumann joined the Franciscan order in 1919 after experiencing the First World War , in which he had participated as a pioneer for two years . He completed his novitiate in the Frauenberg monastery in Fulda . In 1925 he was sent by his order to New York to design a chapel as a cabinet maker and wood carver. From 1936 to 1941 he studied architecture at the Franciscan St. Bonaventure University in New York and obtained his Master of Science degree from Columbia University in New York , where he then served on the committees of the architecture department. He continued to live as a monk in his religious community, had an architecture office in New York, built for the church and employed a. a. Gottfried Böhm as an employee in 1951 during his stay in New York.

Baumann was the first cleric to become a member of the American Institute of Architects , was a member of the US National Committee for Sacred Buildings, the National Sculpture Society, the New York Building Congress, the Admission Board of the Chamber of Architects and US representative in the international commission for the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

The shell-shaped structure of the roof of his Holy Cross Church (1965) refers to the design of the House of Cultures (1957 by Hugh Stubbins Jr.) in Berlin. His expressionist buildings made him known beyond the order. In 1968 the St. Bonaventure University awarded him an honorary doctorate .

plant

  • 1949: St. Clare's Nursing School, a seven story brick building at 426-432 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, New York, cost $ 750,000.
  • 1955: St. Basil Nursing School, a five-story school with penthouse convent, 215 East 6th Street, Manhattan, New York, cost $ 1,500,000.
  • 1959: St. Mary's Ruthenian Parish Church, three-story church with parish apartment, 244-246 E 15th Street, Manhattan, New York, cost $ 450,000.
  • 1959–61: Immaculate Conception Seminar (Troy, New York), conversion and expansion of a former monastery with school and auditorium
  • 1960: St. Stephen of Hungary's Church (New York City), four-story rectory, 402-412 E 82nd Street, Manhattan, New York, for $ 300,000.
  • 1962: Our Lady of Florida Passionist Convent and Retreat, two-story, 1300 US Hwy 1 North Palm Beach Florida
  • 1965: Holy Cross Parish Church (Bronx, New York), 600 Soundview Avenue, Bronx, New York
  • 1966: Extension to St. John's Atonement Seminar, Montour Falls, New York
  • St. Bonaventure University, Saint Bonaventure, New York:
    • Plassman Hall
    • Monastery (today: Doyle Hall)
    • Christ the King Seminar (today: Francis Hall)
    • University Administration (now: Hopkins Hall)
  • St. Anthony Shrine, Boston, MA

  • Holy Cross, Bronx - New York, Catholic Parish Church, 1965

  • Holy Cross, Bronx, New York, elementary school

  • St. Mary's Byzantine Rite Catholic Church, Manhattan, New York, 1964

  • Portal St Mary's Byzantine Rite Catholic Church, Manhattan, New York, 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorotheus Naumann: Brother Cajetan JB Baumann. A biography in pictures, texts and documents , typescript, reproduced by his native community Grünkraut for his 100th birthday in 1999 (probably identical to the text cited in the English article by the same author, brother Cajetan Baumann, architect in New York from 1966)
  2. ^ New York Building Congress: New York Building Congress. New York Building Congress, accessed May 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Cajetan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünkraut , Kingdom of Württemberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1969
Place of death New York City , New York , United States