Carl Haller von Hallerstein
Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Haller von Hallerstein (born June 10, 1774 at Hiltpoltstein Castle ; † November 5, 1817 in Ambelakia , Thessaly , Greece; buried in Paleo Pantelaimonas, Pieria, Greece) was a German architect and early archaeologist .
Life and accomplishments
Carl Haller von Hallerstein comes from one of the oldest patrician families in the imperial city of Nuremberg . At the time of his birth, his father Karl Joachim was a major carer at Hiltpoltstein Castle, which belongs to Nuremberg. His mother was born Freiin Amalie von Imhoff on Mörlach . Haller spent his first year of life as the eighth of ten children in Hiltpoltstein , and his subsequent childhood in the neighboring Graefenberg care office , where his father was transferred in 1775. At the age of 14 he was sent by his family to the court of Prince Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken to be educated , where he served as a pager for three years. Later he studied architecture with the support of the Prince at the Carlsakademie in Stuttgart and then at the Berlin Bauakademie under David Gilly .
In 1806 Haller was employed as a royal building inspector in Nuremberg. Since he already had a reputation as a talented architect of early classicism , the day-to-day business in Nuremberg did not match his talents. Therefore, he tried hard to get a scholarship that enabled him to be released from official duties. In April 1808 the Bavarian royal court granted him a one and a half year travel grant to study ancient architecture.
Haller first visited Rome in 1808, where he studied early Christian architecture. In June 1810 he traveled to Athens via Naples, Corfu and Corinth. On the study tour he was accompanied by Jakob Linckh , Peter Oluf Brøndsted , Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and Georg Koës . In 1811 he met the English architects Charles Robert Cockerell and John Foster (1786–1846) in Athens, with whom he studied the ancient buildings of Athens.
In 1811 Haller visited the ruins of the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina with Linkh and Stackelberg . In the process, they discovered 17 gable sculptures of the temple and various other fragments in the rubble of the ruins. Through the mediation of the sculptor Martin von Wagner , the "Ägineten" were bought for the then Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I of Bavaria ). You are in the Munich Glyptothek . In the same year Haller von Hallerstein excavated the ruins of the Temple of Apollo near Bassae with Gropius , Linckh, Stackelberg, Bröndsted and Foster . The relief frieze found there has been in the British Museum since 1814 . He later led excavations in Ithaca and began excavations in the ruins of the theater on Milos , which he had to end prematurely.
The building of the Walhalla near Regensburg, based on the model of the Parthenon in Athens, goes back to a design by Haller .
Haller died after a short illness at the age of 43 in Ambelakia (Thessaly), a community at the southern foot of Mount Olympus .
Fonts
- with Georges Roux (ed.): Le Temple de Bassae. Relevés et dessins du Temple d'Apollon à Bassae, conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg. Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1976, p. 43 - XIV, ISBN 2-85923-000-9 .
literature
- Hansgeorg Bankel (Ed.): Carl Haller von Hallerstein in Greece 1810–1817 architect, draftsman, building researcher. On the occasion of the exhibition Carl Haller von Hallerstein in Greece 1810–1817. Munich, Palais Preysing, February 14–15. March 1986; Nuremberg, Albrecht-Dürerhaus and Fembohaus, March 22–11. May 1986; Berlin-Charlottenburg, Antikenmuseum SMPK, June 14–31. August 1986. Reimer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-496-00840-7 .
- Rudolf Bergau: Haller von Hallerstein, Carl Freiherr . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 438-440.
- Klaus Frässle: Carl Haller von Hallerstein (1774-1817). Dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1971.
- Hans Haller von Hallerstein: And the earth gave birth to a smile. The first German archaeologist in Greece Carl Haller von Hallerstein 1774–1817. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7991-6181-3 .
- Wolfgang von Löhneysen : Haller von Hallerstein, Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 559 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Haller von Hallerstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in The Dictionary of Art Historians (English)
- Carl Haller von Hallerstein, plans and drawings by Carl von Haller Hallerstein in Italy and Greece (1810–1817) digitize at the BNU Strasbourg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The gable sculptures of the Temple of Aegina. Glyptothek website (accessed February 9, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haller von Hallerstein, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haller von Hallerstein, Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim; Haller von Hallerstein, Johann Karl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim; Haller von Hallerstein, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hiltpoltstein Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1817 |
| Place of death | Ambelakia , Thessaly , Greece |