Carl Theodor Ottmer

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Carl Theodor Ottmer
Ottmer's grave in the cathedral cemetery in Braunschweig

Carl Theodor Ottmer (born January 19, 1800 in Braunschweig ; † August 22, 1843 in Berlin ) was a German architect and Brunswick court master builder who became known for his buildings in his home town of Braunschweig and in Berlin.

Life

Carl Theodor Ottmer grew up as the son of the surgeon Johann Heinrich Gottfried Ottmer (1767-1814) and his second wife Elisabeth Sophie Friederike nee Geißler (1775-1826) in a medical household.

family

Ottmer's father came from a large host family from Wolfenbüttel , who was initially married to Friederike Elisabeth Louise, née Kreppenstedten. She died in childbed in 1796 shortly after the birth of her son Ludewig Joseph Jacob at the age of 22. In 1797 Ottmer's father married his second wife, who gave birth to a daughter Wilhelmine Juliane Elisabeth in 1798. Shortly after Carl Ottmer's birth, in April 1800, his sister fell out of the window of his parents' house on Bohlweg and succumbed to her injuries. In 1802 he got another sister Johanne Juliane Louise and in 1808 a brother Heinrich Eduard. The geologist and mineralogist Julius Ottmer was his nephew. The family had seven children in total, the youngest daughter was Amalie Elisabeth, born in 1812. Ottmer was 14 years old when his father died. This had predetermined for him a career as a doctor. However, he decided otherwise.

education

Ottmer began his training at the Collegium Carolinum in 1816 and completed an apprenticeship at the Duke Brunswick Building Department under construction commissioner Kahnt, initially together with his future brother-in-law Friedrich Wilhelm Spehr . He was promoted and trained from autumn 1817 to 1821 by the leading architect Peter Joseph Krahe . Krahe temporarily took the boy into his own family, so that Ottmer received a comprehensive education and also came into contact with the theater. He had a deep friendship with his son Friedrich Maria Krahe . Krahe let Ottmer work on building projects such as the gatehouses at the Wendentor, the buildings of the orangery or the construction of a manor house in Halchter. After completing his apprenticeship in 1821, he applied to the Ducal Chamber for a three-year travel grant. He was given one year support. So in 1822 he went to the Berlin Building Academy for further studies . There he was trained in the environment of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , but was never his direct student. He was a close friend of the director of the Singakademie Carl Friedrich Zelter , on whose initiative the building of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin at Kastanienwäldchen goes back. In Berlin he emerged with his first projects that earned him recognition beyond the borders of Berlin.

Act

Ottmer worked, among other things, as an expert for the theater construction of his time and was involved in the construction or renovation of the theaters in Berlin (1824), Hamburg (1825), Leipzig (1826), Braunschweig (1826), Dresden (1828/1829), Meiningen ( 1830) and Wolfenbüttel (1835) were involved.

Ottmer had been a member of the “Berlinischer Künstlerverein” since 1825. He rejected an appointment by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. to the court architect in Berlin-Potsdam and traveled to France and Italy between 1827 and 1829 . After his return, Ottmer married Cäcilie Charlotte Clementine nee Abich on March 1, 1829 (* 1808; † after 1866).

In 1824 he was appointed court architect by Duke Karl II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. After the fire in the Braunschweig residential palace in 1830, he became court building officer in Braunschweig. In this role, he designed a large number of administrative and military buildings (barracks), but also representative architecture, such as the new residential palace, traffic structures (such as train stations) and villas. As was customary in the first half of the 19th century, he worked with different architectural styles , with neo-Gothic forms as well as with classical ones - depending on the building task.

For his last project, the second Braunschweig train station , he was only able to finish the drafts before he died in August 1843 after a serious illness, for the treatment of which he had returned to Berlin in 1843. The building was constructed between 1843 and 1845 according to these (now lost) plans.

After his death, Ottmer was transferred to his hometown Braunschweig and buried there in the cathedral cemetery with great sympathy among the population .

Buildings and projects

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerd Biegel, Angela Klein (ed.): Carl Theodor Ottmer. 1800-1843; Braunschweigischer Hofbaumeister - European architect. Pp. 9-11.
  2. ^ Carl Theodor Ottmer on braunschweig.de
  3. ^ Andrea Deutsch: Carl Theodor Ottmer and the Braunschweiger Schloss. Why an actually classical architect builds a castle with so many baroque elements. GRIN Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-638-23056-2 , p. 3. (e-book)
  4. ^ Abich, Cäcilie Charlotte Klementine. on ora-web.swkk.de
  5. ^ Claudia Anette Gronen: The first Braunschweiger Hauptbahnhof by Carl Theodor Ottmer. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-672-0 , ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Ottmer, Carl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Brunswick construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1843
Place of death Berlin