Carl Ferdinand Langhans

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Carl Ferdinand Langhans
Honorary grave of Carl Ferdinand Langhans in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Carl Ferdinand Langhans (born January 14, 1781 in Breslau , † November 22, 1869 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Langhans was born as the son of the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans . Like his father, he drew himself a. a. as a theater builder. He was trained by his father and at the Berlin Bauakademie , u. a. with Friedrich Gilly . In 1797 he entered the service of the Berlin Oberhofbauamt as a construction manager. As a result of the turmoil of the war, he was put on waiting allowance as Oberhofbauinspektor in 1806 and took his leave. He then traveled to Italy and worked briefly in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien . After his father's death in 1808, he returned to Breslau. As a private architect, he designed lamps, coffee machines and a pleoramaof the Gulf of Naples and designed and tested an early form of the scooter with two rear wheels. From 1819 he became a royal building officer in the 1820s and a sought-after architect, who in the following decades realized almost all of the most important building projects in Silesia. From 1834 he lived in Berlin. In 1844 he was finally appointed senior building officer in Berlin.

His main works in the transition period from classicism to historicism are the Berlin Old Palace (1834-1837), the reconstruction of the Kroll Opera became known Berlin Opera House (1843/44), Theater Building in Legnica (1841/42), Dessau (1855/56) and Stettin (1846–1849) and the New Theater in Leipzig (1865–1868). In addition, after the fire disaster in 1843, Langhans designed the new building for the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin, created by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (with later auditorium and stage space by Carl Gotthard Langhans) (reopened in 1844). In his hometown of Wroclaw there are still the city ​​theater (1838–1841, today the opera house), the Eleven Thousand Maiden Church (1821–1823) in Wrocław's Elbing, which was commissioned by the publisher Johann Gottlieb Korn (1765–1837) and built on September 30th Marienkapelle consecrated in 1824 in the district of Oswitz (1822–1824), the old stock exchange on the Salzmarkt (1822–1824) and the synagogue Zum Weißen Storch (1826–1829).

Stylistically, his early work follows on from the Palladian classicism already cultivated by his father. He names Michelangelo , Palladio and Serlio as role models , but also the works of Greek and Roman antiquity. However, he is also influenced by the Silesian baroque manner, the contemporary architecture of his fellow student Karl Friedrich Schinkel and by decorations in the Empire style.

He also appeared as an architectural theorist: in 1810 he published "On Theater or Comments on Catacoustics in Relation to Theater", a theory about room acoustics in theaters.

Carl Ferdinand Langhans had been married to Juliane Seile († 1828) in Breslau since 1817 and to Henriette Winkel (1833–1916) in Berlin since 1857. He died childless in Berlin in 1869 at the age of 88.

Commemoration

Carl Ferdinand Langhans was buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . A cippus with multiple bases serves as the tombstone , in the front of which a bronze relief medallion with the portrait of the deceased is set, a work by the sculptor Franz Rosse .

A memorial for Carl Gotthard Langhans (father) and Carl Ferdinand Langhans was set up in 2017 in a rededicated mausoleum (resting place of the Massute siblings) near the grave. Here the Carl-Gotthard-Langhans-Gesellschaft Berlin is showing an exhibition on the life and work of these two Silesian-Prussian architects and organizing lectures.

In this context, by resolution of the Berlin Senate, the final resting place of Carl Ferdinand Langhans was dedicated in 2018 as an honorary grave for the State of Berlin . The dedication is valid for the usual period of twenty years, but can then be extended.

  • Kick scooter, Breslau 1817, reconstruction by HE Lessing, 2019

  • Wroclaw Opera House

  • Old Wroclaw Stock Exchange

  • Eleven Thousand Virgins Church in Wroclaw

  • Altes Palais Berlin, postcard around 1900

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jerzy Krzysztof Kos: Langhans, Carl Ferdinand . In: Saur, General Artist Lexicon . tape 83 . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 3-11-023188-3 , pp. 134 f .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Rohe: Karl Ferdinand Langhans, a theater builder of classicism . Bückeburg 1934, p. 4 .
  3. ^ Kurt Bimler: Langhans, Carl Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 342 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Erhard Lessing: You stand on it when you drive . In: FAZ , August 24, 2019. HE Lessing: Automobility - Karl Drais and the incredible beginnings . Maxime-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, p. 368
  5. ↑ a b c Jerzy Krzysztof Kos: Langhans, Carl Ferdinand . In: Saur, General Artist Lexicon . tape 83 . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 3-11-023188-3 , pp. 135 .
  6. ↑ The Chapel in Oswitz ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.breslau-wroclaw.de
  7. ^ Carl Ferdinand Langhans: Letter to the Leipzig City Council . In: Leipzig City Archives, Chap. 34 . tape 1 , no. 7 , p. 209-220 .
  8. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 244.
  9. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 50; accessed on March 29, 2019. Recognition and further preservation of graves as honorary graves of the State of Berlin . (PDF, 369 kB). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 18/14895 of November 21, 2018, p. 1 and Annex 1, p. 4, accessed on March 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Langhans, Carl Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1781 or 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1869
Place of death Berlin