Carl Schmidt (architect)

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Carl Schmidt, 1897

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

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

Commons : Carl Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files