Carl Slevogt (architect)

Heinrich Carl Slevogt (born July 28, 1787 in Eutin ; † February 12, 1832 in Osternburg ) was a German architect.

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Carl Slevogt was a son of the Chamber Assessor Johann Adolf Slevogt (born August 30, 1753 in Eutin; † January 29, 1794 ibid) and his wife Marie Christine Auguste, née Blohm (born December 2, 1752 in Altona ; † November 13, 1824 in Eutin). The maternal grandfather was the reindeer Detleff Wigmann Blohm from Altona. His parents were married on November 5, 1784 in Eutin.

Slevogt's father died early. The Eutin prince-bishop Peter Friedrich Ludwig then made an annual legacy that Slevogt and his brother financed an education until 1811. Carl Slevogt attended the Eutin School of Academics and studied at the Prussian Building Academy from 1806 , which at that time was located in Königsberg . Here he heard from Friedrich Becherer , Paul Ludwig Simon and Johann Albert Eytelwein, among others . Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Aloys Hirt , Stadtbaukunst Heinrich Gentz, taught the subject “History of Architecture” . Slevogt's later work shows strong influences from David Gilly , who taught at the Bauakademie and died in 1808. It is doubtful, however, that Slevogt actually heard from him.

After 1810, Slevogt worked as a trainee at the head of construction in Berlin. In May 1813 he passed the final examination before the commission of the highest Prussian building authority. In the same year he received an appointment as "Bauconducteur" as head of the building administration in the Duchy of Oldenburg . There he was the first architect who had received both practical and theoretical training at the building academy. He worked here until 1831, when he was promoted to building inspector. He then retired due to health reasons. Buildings planned by him continued to emerge after his death until the mid-1830s.

Buildings

Slevogt initially took over the restoration of ducal castles in Oldenburg and Rastede and expanded them extensively. At Schloss Oldenburg he revised 1819-1821 the state rooms, created the Schlosstorbogen. He designed most of the sculptural decoration of the rooms himself. In 1820 he planned the castle kitchen wing and the coach houses and carriages on the Hunte. In 1817 he created plans for a symmetrical extension of the facade of the palace courtyard, but these were not implemented. In addition, he planned the tea pavilion and greenhouses for the palace garden, which were built from 1817. From 1821 to 1826 the Prinzenpalais was added on the dam.

Slevogt designed the conversion of the existing building into a country residence for Rastede Castle . Construction began in 1817. In addition, he most likely provided the plans for the palace, which was built in 1822. In 1818 the architect completed plans for the tomb of Christian Daniel von Finckh and Albrecht Ludwig von Berger , which was implemented by Franz Anton Högl in 1824 . With the draft he was able to prevail against Iwan Petrowitsch Martos and von Tischbein in a competition organized by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Oldenburg. Slevogt created an antic temple here , which is considered the main work of classicist tombs and was in direct tradition of Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

Slevogt planned several buildings that should be used in Oldenburg for military and administrative purposes. In 1815 he designed a symmetrical barracks and houses for officers. He copied the Paretz Castle designed by David Gilly without any changes . However, the structures that were intended for the square in front of the Heiligengeisttor were not realized.

The infantry barracks on the east side of the Oldenburg horse market were built between 1819 and 1821 . Slevogt's successor Heinrich Strack added a central projection here in 1837. In 1821 a military hospital was built on the traffic jam. In 1828/29 the college building behind the Lambertikirche was realized. In 1831 the chamber building on Casinoplatz was added. It was only after his death that the stables at the Schloss Freiheit were built according to Slevogt's plans.

Slevogt managed the expansion of the spa and bathing facilities at the seaside resort of Wangerooge. In doing so, he worked closely with Georg Siegmund Otto Lasius . From 1819 to 1821 the conversation house was built here according to his plans.

In Oldenburg, especially in Osternburg, houses were built according to Slevogt's plans, which can be assigned to late classicism . This includes:

• The von Münnichsche Landhaus in Bremer Straße 15. It was built in 1818 and can be seen as the first example of a splendid summer residence.
• His own house from 1823 at Bremer Straße 28. Here he planned a hipped roof cuboid with two floors.
• The von Bülowsche Landhaus from 1825 at Cloppenburger Straße 2-4, designed as a representative country house with two floors.
• The Schwabesche residential building from 1827 at Kleine Kirchstrasse 1, designed as a residential and commercial building.

Architectural style

Slevogt was the first architect who designed buildings in the style of David Gilly in Oldenburg. All in all, he remained below his possibilities here, although working with reduced forms and maximum scarcity was actually favorable for his stylistic ideas. In contrast to his successor Strack, Slevogt worked with less stressed Palladian traditions and, instead, moderately Doric. He was rather reserved with columns, portico, round arches and plastic facade decorations. Instead, he emphasized the wall bond by varying the sections of the wall that stepped forward and backward. He only rarely used plastic details when designing exterior walls.

Slevogt worked more in the style of the Berlin building academy than in the style of the Schinkel school . Alongside Heinrich Nikolaus Börm , he was probably the first architect in northwest Germany to work in this style on a large scale and to establish it there.

family

Slevogt married Maria Dorothea Wilhelmine Wöhe in 1815, who died on September 12, 1816 in Oldenburg. From this marriage two daughters were born. In his second marriage, he married Anna Sophie Juergens on December 1, 1818 in Varel (* July 24, 1790 in Varel; † November 23, 1830 in Easter Castle). Her father Gerhard Christoph Juergens worked in Varel as a farmer and scribe. The second marriage had two daughters and five sons, including the painter Adolf (1819–1885).

literature

• Jörg Deuter: Slevogt, Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, pp. 364-367.