Conrad Wilhelm Hase

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Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1898)

Conrad Wilhelm Hase (born October 2, 1818 in Einbeck , † March 28, 1902 in Hanover ) was a German architect and university professor . He is considered one of the most important representatives of the neo-Gothic of the 19th century.

Hase was a royal Hanoverian building officer , from 1863 consistorial master builder of the Hanover regional church , from 1849 teacher and from 1878 professor of architecture at the Polytechnic in Hanover and founder of the Hanover architecture school , member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and honorary citizen of the cities of Einbeck and Hildesheim . His commitment to the preservation and care of historical buildings made him a pioneer in the preservation of monuments in northern Germany and beyond.

Life

Hare around 1845
Depiction at the Künstlerhaus Hannover, which he designed
Tomb at the Engesohde cemetery

Hase spent his childhood and youth as the tenth child of a tax collector in Einbeck , before he began studying architecture and building art in Hanover at the end of 1834. After completing his architecture studies, he did not find a job and returned in the spring of 1838 to his native Einbeck, where he helped his father with tax matters. On the advice of his architecture teacher Ernst Ebeling (1804-1851), Hase completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which he successfully completed in the spring of 1840 with the journeyman's examination. The instructor was the builder Christoph August Gersting . On a six-month wandering from Hanover via Kassel, Marburg, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Worms, Speyer, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg to Munich, Hase was able to study various architectural styles. His preference for Gothic architecture was strengthened . A scholarship from the city of Einbeck enabled Hase to study at the Munich Art Academy at the end of 1840 .

In the spring of 1842 Hase returned to Hanover and initially found work as a bricklayer and site manager with his former teacher. In February 1843, Hase took on the job of a construction manager in the civil service of the Royal Hanover Railway Directorate, where he designed and managed the construction of the stations in Celle , Lehrte and Wunstorf . In June 1848, Hase turned to sacred architecture with the restoration of the monastery church in Loccum .

In December 1849, Hase took on a representative position at the Hanover Polytechnic . Two years later he was officially named as an architecture teacher and was one of the founders of the Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover , which contributed significantly to the dissemination of the ideas of the Hanover Architecture School through the publications he published. Various private commissions and the successful participation in the first free architecture competition in Hanover consolidated Hase's reputation as an architect.

In September 1853 Hase married Agnes Maria Cornelia Leguinia Babnigg (1828-1865), a singer of Hungarian descent. The couple had children Antonie (1855–1906), Theodor (1856–1877) and Rudolf (1861–1906). After his wife died at the age of only 37, he married Ottilie Franziska Annette Amalie Berckelmann (1832–1920) from Liebenburg in 1867 .

In 1860/61 Hase built a representative house for himself and his family on Josephstraße (today Otto-Brenner-Straße) in Hanover, the "Hasenburg". It was destroyed in World War II.

Hase's 80th birthday in 1898 was the reason for numerous honors from his students and admirers. In addition to his creative work, his personal friendliness and cheerfulness were also emphasized.

Style principles and effect

Hase's architectural style was influenced by medieval brick Gothic, whereby the construction of the buildings and the - preferably domestic - building materials used should remain visible to the viewer ( “plaster is a lie” ). Hase planned more than 340 buildings in the neo-Gothic style , including over 100 sacred buildings . He regarded the Gothic as the actually Christian architectural style. There are also over 150 restoration projects and numerous publications on the history of historical buildings.

Conrad Wilhelm Hase with his family and former students, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, December 1898

Its brick Gothic, sometimes disrespectfully referred to as "Hasik", shaped the cityscape of Hanover and through its students ( Karl Börgemann , Franz Ewerbeck , Friedrich Fahro , Christoph Hehl , Karl Henrici , Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand , Georg Kegel , Gerhard Franz Langenberg , Wilhelm Lüer , Karl Mohrmann , Edwin Oppler , Johannes Otzen , Max Pommer , Paul Rowald , Eduard Wendebourg , Johannes Franziskus Klomp and many others) numerous other places not only in northern Germany. Many public and private buildings, commercial buildings, churches and monuments have been preserved to this day. But his own house, the so-called "Haseburg", was destroyed in the Second World War. His grave is in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover. Hase was an honorary citizen of Hildesheim , where a street is named after him. His portrait can be found on a brick building in the street .

Work (selection)

Nordstemmen station , southern station building intended for the king, work drawing by Conrad Wilhelm Hase 1853
Neo-Gothic waiting room in the Nordstemmen station building, designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase from 1858 to 1860
House from 1862
Elisabeth Church in Langenhagen , 1867/1869
St. Lukas Church in Lauenau , built in 1877/78
Salon of the ladies-in-waiting in Marienburg Castle ; Executed 1862–1863 by Conrad Wilhelm Hase, demolished in 1865 by Edwin Oppler.
neo-Gothic St. Jakobi town church (Elbingerode) built by Conrad Wilhelm Hase in 1863
Lead-glazed window by Conrad Wilhelm Hase from 1854 above the western double portal of the reception building at Nordstemmen station .

Honors

Late watercolor by CW Hase, dated October 31, 1893 near Baden-Baden (private collection)

In the hundredth year of his death in 2002, an exhibition on the life and work of Conrad Wilhelm Hase was shown in the Christ Church . Due to the positive response to this event and in view of the upcoming 150th anniversary celebration, the church forecourt was renamed Conrad-Wilhelm-Hase-Platz in 2007 . There are also plans to renovate the station building in Nordstemmen , which is threatened with demolition, and to turn it into a museum memorial for the builder Conrad Wilhelm Hase.

Quotes

with reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase:

  • “If you want to identify Hase in a few words, then you have to say: He was a man in creativity, a youth in happiness and a child in disposition." - Karl Mohrmann, obituary for Conrad Wilhelm Hase, 1902.

with reference to your own teaching:

  • "Plaster is a lie."
  • "We want to create real and beautiful."
  • "We want to practice truth in art."
  • "Art is without lies and deceit."

Personal motto:

  • “Everyone builds according to his nose, my name is Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Whoever wants to build on open roads has to be censured by envious people and fools. If you want to criticize this house, just stand still a little and say without flattery whether yours is better. And if you don't like my house, it won't cost mine your money. "

Personal epitaph:

  • “Man's work rests in God's hands” - grave at the Engesohde city cemetery

about the Schaumburger Land , which Hase traveled to in 1855:

  • "The whole country looks like a beautiful garden, and the friendly" Good morning! " a crowd of churchgoers in full old-fashioned Sunday cleaning transports us to the land of our childish dream world. "

student

literature

To the biography

Catalog raisonné

  • Günther Kokkelink and Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Conrad Wilhelm Hase 1818–1902, founder of the Hanover School of Architecture. Exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death in the Hannover City Archives 2002. (List of works, status: February 2002, with dates of life and bibliographical information.)
  • Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Builder of Historicism. Exhibition catalog. Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover 1968 (catalog raisonné with biographical dates and references.)

Others

  • Gustav Schönermark : The architecture of the Hanover School. 7 volumes, Hanover, 1888–1895.
  • Günther Kokkelink : The neo-Gothic Conrad Wilhelm Hases: A form of historicism. 1st part: 1818-1859. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series , Volume 22, Issue 1/3, ISSN  0342-1104 , Hanover 1968, DNB 481563008 (Dissertation Technical University of Hanover , Faculty of Construction, July 11, 1968, 211 pages).
  • Günther Kokkelink: The church building of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his students in Hanover. In: Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents. Lutherhaus Verlag, Hanover 1983; Pp. 113-117.
  • Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): Greeting card from the Kunstgewerbeverein for Conrad Wilhelm Hase on his 80th birthday , with the signatures of the members, in: Hannover Archive , Sheet K 19
  • Gunther Schendel: House full of heaven. The St. Jakobi Church in Wietzendorf / Lüneburger Heide , Wietzendorf 2000 (on Hase and the Wietzendorfer Hase building, pp. 26–38).
  • Nadine Pflüger, Werner Beermann: The architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his buildings from earlier times. Elze and Nordstemmen train stations . Issue 7 of the series of publications of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Elze and its districts e. V. , Elze 2007.
  • Markus Jager, Thorsten Albrecht, Jan Willem Huntebrinker (eds.): Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902): architect, university professor, consistorial builder, preservationist. Petersberg 2019.

Web links

Commons : Conrad Wilhelm Hase  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Knocke : Gersting, Christoph August. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. 2002, p. 130; Online source: [1]
  2. ↑ a b c biography of Günther Kokkelink
  3. ↑ Hase house (Kokkelink); the address “St.-Andreas-Straße” mentioned there can not be verified on the 1873 city map .
  4. ^ On the 200th birthday of Conrad Wilhelm Hase
  5. ^ Website of the church in Uetze
  6. ↑ To the city church of St. Jakobi in Elbingerode
  7. ^ Church of St. Trinitatis in Lewe-Liebenburg , accessed on February 5, 2012
  8. ↑ St. Dionysius Church , accessed on February 5, 2012
  9. ↑ Website of the parish Lüchow: Konsistorialbaumeister Conrad-Wilhelm Hase
  10. ↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Göttingen district, part 2, volume 5.3, 1997, edited by Peter Ferdinand Lufen, edited by Christiane Segers-Glocke, Verlag CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln, ISBN 3-8271-8257-3
  11. ↑ St. Mauritius Church in Görsbach , accessed on April 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hase, Conrad Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor, founder of the Hanover School of Architecture
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Einbeck
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1902
Place of death Hanover