Carl Schmidt (architect)
Carl Michael Emil Schmidt ( Russian Карл Карлович Шмидт ; born December 9 . Jul / 21st December 1866 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 8. August 1945 in the United Ottersleben , today Magdeburg ) was a Russian architect of German descent and philatelist .
Life
He was born in a family of the Russian Germans Carl Friedrich and Olga Helena Schmidt. Schmidt attended the Petri School in Saint Petersburg from 1877 , where he graduated from high school in 1886. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in engineering from 1887 to 1893 and has been working as a freelance architect since 1896, and in 1897 married Erika Sophia Leonore Johannsen (1875–1953). Schmidt is referred to as a representative of the "brick style" and early Art Nouveau in architecture. Villas and apartment buildings designed by him decorate the streets of St. Petersburg. He was a civil servant for special appearances at the Minister of Justice, advanced to collegiate councilor in 1912 and was finally a real councilor of state, which was accompanied by an ennoblement in the hereditary nobility . In the autumn of 1918, the Schmidt family was forced to leave Russia . In Germany, he was unable to continue his architectural work, he then worked in the philatelic field.
Works (selection)
- 1897/98. Wilhelm-Karl Tiss's villa. Syesschinskaya ul., 3.
- 1897/99. Alexandra women's pen. Bolshoi prospectus WO, 49-51
- 1899/1900. The Fabergé company building . Bolshaya Morskaya ul., 24.
- 1900/01. Paul Forostowski's villa and office. 4 linija VO, 9.
- 1900/04. Own villa in Pavlovsk . 2-yes Krasnoflotskaya ul., 7.
- 1901/02. Own tenement. Chersonskaya ul., 13.
- 1907. The new building for Emilie Schaffe's girls' high school. 5 linija WO, 16.
- Philatelic works
- The postage stamps of the Russian landscape offices, 1934, 104 pages; a book about Zemstvo marks
- Handbook of German private postage stamps, from 1939, volumes 1 and 2
gallery
Awards
- Winner Prize 1926 and 1933
- Lindenberg Medal 1935
- Crawford Medal 1935
literature
- Voigt E., Heidebrecht H. Carl Schmidt: An architect in St. Petersburg . 1866-1945. - Augsburg, 2007.
- Э. Фогт, Б. М. Кириков. Архитектор Карл Шмидт: Жизнь и творчество. St. Petersburg, 2011. - ISBN 978-5-901841-81-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Schmidt, Karl Michael Emil in the Erik Amburger database of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , Regensburg
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шмидт, Карл Карлович (Russian); Schmidt, Carl Michael Emil (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian architect of German descent |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1866 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1945 |
Place of death | Groß Ottersleben , today Magdeburg |