Carl Luckow

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Portrait relief by Carl Luckow on the main building of the University of Rostock

Carl Luckow (born March 12, 1828 in Rostock ; † May 15, 1885 Ilten ) was a German architect and Mecklenburg construction clerk .

Life

From 1846 Carl Luckow studied philosophy at the University of Rostock . From 1848 to 1851 he studied architecture at the building school of the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe , where he became a member of the Germania fraternity (now Teutonia ). In 1852 he passed the first state examination as an architect in Schwerin. Luckow began his career as an assistant in the construction of the Schwerin Palace .

In 1872 he was a construction Kondukteur seconded to provide assistance during the state buildings and assisted with Adolf Prahst the Rostock architects and Mecklenburg court architect Hermann Willebrand the construction of the main building of the University of Rostock, what his portrait medallion commemorates the courtyard façade of the building.

In 1877, the master builder Carl Luckow was commissioned with the renovation work for the establishment of the district court in the Fürstenhof zu Wismar . He was supported by Gustav Hamann as site manager . After the construction work was completed, Carl Luckow was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1880.

In 1880 he was appointed master builder.

Since 1865 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology ; he made several drawings of antiquities for publications in the Mecklenburgische Jahrbucher .

Buildings and designs

  • 1865 Collegiate Building I. (State Chancellery) Schloßstraße 2 in Schwerin, original reconstruction of the burned down building
  • 1877–1878 restoration of the royal court in Wismar
  • Medical Institute (today: Anatomical Institute) in Rostock
  • 1878 District and District Court in Rostock, Schwaansche Strasse , destroyed in 1942
  • 1878 Bastorf lighthouse

  • Fürstenhof Wismar

  • Anatomical Institute

  • Bastorf lighthouse

Fonts

  • Restoration of the facades of the Prince's Court in Wismar. Boldt, Rostock 1882.

literature

  • Land builder Karl Luckow. In: Mecklenburg. Home magazine for compatriots and friends of Mecklenburg. ( ISSN  0177-8625 ), Volume 23 1981, No. 1, pp. 10-11.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018. ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 467-468.
  • Hans-Heinrich Schimler: Carl Luckow and the Rostock university buildings. Colleague Hermann Willebrands designed the anatomical institute. In: Mecklenburg-Magazin , No. 39 (1999), p. 21.

Web links

Commons : Carl Luckow  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the matriculation portal of the University of Rostock
  2. ↑ Beatrice Busjan: Letters, files, inventories - The Wismarer Fürstenhof in the light of written tradition. In: The Fürstenhof zu Wismar. 2005 pp. 32-33.
  3. ↑ In their obituary for Luckow, who died in May of this year, the Mecklenburgische Advertisements of May 29, 1885 incorrectly reported that Luckow had been awarded the Golden Medal for Art and Science . Luckow never received this medal, even according to the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar, 106th year 1881 p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Luckow, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckow, Karl (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Mecklenburg construction clerk
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1885
Place of death Ilten