Christoph Pitzler

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Christoph Pitzler (born 1657 in Freyburg an der Unstrut , Saxony-Weißenfels ; buried on April 28, 1707 in Halle an der Saale , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a German builder.

Life

Christoph Pitzler was probably born in Freyburg as the son of the local bailiff. At the end of 1680 he was accepted as an adjunct (servant) in the silver chamber of Johann Adolf I of Saxony-Weißenfels and was thus a member of the court servants in the Duchy of Weißenfels . At the time, Johann Moritz Richter held the office of state master builder in Weißenfels , who in 1684, after completion of the construction of the Weißenfels palace, moved to the service of Margrave Christian Ernst in Bayreuth .

Pitzler set out in May 1685, probably with the support of the sovereign, on a three-year study trip through Europe, during which he kept a diary and made architectural notes. He traveled through the Netherlands and Flanders, Spain. He stayed in Paris from July 1685 to May 1687 and visited Versailles and the pleasure palaces in Marly and Trianon de Porcelaine from there . He came via Lyon to Rome (May to October 1687), Naples and Venice (December 1687 to April 1688). On June 23, 1688 he reached Weissenfels again.

On later trips he visited Leipzig (1690, 1693, around 1700) and in 1695, 1701 and 1705 in Brandenburg several times in Berlin, Potsdam, Caputh, Charlottenburg, Köpenick, Oranienburg and other places in the Kurmark.

Grande Galerie in Versailles
Menagerie in Versailles and Trianon de Porcelaine
Opera am Brühl in Leipzig

Back in Weißenfels he was promoted to valet in 1688 and exercised the functions of a state master builder, but initially not with this title, which he demonstrably only held from 1697. From 1690 he was the only significant master builder in the principality. The building maintenance and building expansion measures typical of a state master builder can be proven. He worked repeatedly in the fortress Heldrungen ; The south wing in Dryburg Castle , built in 1694, came from him. Under Prince Johann Georg von Sachsen-Weißenfels , who was enthroned in 1697 , he was offered a rich field of activity. On his behalf, he built in Augustusburg Castle and in Palais Kleinfriedenthal near the Neuenburg hunting lodge . At the beginning of 1702 he also became a master builder in the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels-Barby and built in Barby Castle .

In 1705 he moved with his wife to the Prussian Halle , worked there in the Moritzburg and was to be appointed royal Prussian master builder in the Duchy of Magdeburg in 1707 when he suddenly died. He was childless and was buried in the Laurentiuskirche , the tombstone has been preserved. In Weißenfels he was followed by the master builder Johann Mützel .

Travel journal

Pitzler's 1052-page description of Reys through Germany, Holland, the Spanish Netherlands, Franck-Reich and Italy was bound to a quarto volume 16.5 by 29.5 cm after his death . The paper was written on both sides in baroque Kurrent script and contained a large number of architectural drawings scattered throughout the text. The art historian Cornelius Gurlitt discovered the sketchbook at the end of the 19th century in the library of the Technical University of Berlin . The original of the diary was lost at the end of the Second World War . Only photographic reproductions of pages that were made for an edition in the Hohenzollern Yearbook have survived.

Travel diary editions

  • Reyses description by Germany, Holland, Spanish Netherlands, Franck Empire and Italy.
  • Hellmut Lorenz (ed.): Berlin architecture of the baroque period. The drawings and notes from the travel diary of the architect Christoph Pitzler (1657–1707). Nicolai, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-699-0 . (Here the part relating to Berlin is reproduced in full and commented on.)
  • Étude du voyage en France et du séjour à Versailles de Christoph Pitzler, extrait de son carnet d'esquisses (1685–1688) conservé à la Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg. In: Bulletin du Center de Recherche du Château de Versailles , Center de Recherche du Château de Versailles, April 2014, ISSN  1958-9271

literature

  • Florian Dölle: With own eyes and with strange eyes: Versailles in Christoph Pitzler's travel sketchbook from 1686. In: Uwe Fleckner, Maike Steinkamp, ​​Hendrik Ziegler (eds.): The artist in the foreign: Migration - Reise - Exil. De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-05-005091-1 , pp. 87-105.
  • Joachim Säckl: On the life and work of the Princely Saxon master builder Christoph Pitzler. In: Castles and Palaces in Saxony-Anhalt , 8/1999, pp. 185–204, ISSN  0944-4157
  • Hellmut Lorenz (ed.): Berlin architecture of the baroque period. The drawings and notes from the travel diary of the architect Christoph Pitzler (1657–1707). Nicolai, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-699-0 (here also a complete documentation of the travel diary in the appendix).
  • WB Niemann: The Ducal Saxon master builder Christoph Pitzler. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 77 (1927), pp. 43–48 (not viewed)
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Three Artists' Lives from the 17th Century. III. Christoph Pitzler's sketchbook. In: Urban architecture in old and new times. Issue 10/11, 1922, pp. 151–159 and pp. 164–169 (not viewed)

Web links

Commons : Christoph Pitzler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1999 Joachim Säckl could not find a birth entry.
  2. ↑ Joachim Säckl: To life and work. 1999, p. 185
  3. ↑ Joachim Säckl: To life and work. 1999, p. 187. The individual travel stations with data also in: Lorenz 1998, pp. 222–229.
  4. ↑ Joachim Säckl: To life and work. 1999, pp. 187f.
  5. ↑ Joachim Säckl: To life and work. 1999, p. 188
  6. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch : Sachsen-Anhalt II. 1999, p. 477
  7. ↑ a b Joachim Säckl: To life and work. 1999, p. 189
  8. ↑ Joachim Säckl: To life and work. 1999, p. 201
  9. ↑ Florian Dölle: With own eyes and with other people's eyes , 2015, p. 88
  10. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : An old sketchbook. In: Der Bär , 1889, pp. 478–481
  11. ↑ A complete list of the surviving illustrations in Lorenz 1998, in the appendix.
  12. ^ Helmut Caspar: Berlin architecture of the baroque period . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 10, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 106–110 ( luise-berlin.de - review).
personal data
SURNAME Pitzler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Freyburg an der Unstrut
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1707
Place of death Halle on the Saale