Constantin Uhde

Uhde 1885

Constantin Uhde , often also Konstantin Uhde , (* March 23, 1836 in Braunschweig ; † May 31, 1905 there ; full name: Constantin Ernst Carl James Uhde ) was a German architect and professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig.

Life

The son of the university professor August Uhde visited the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig. His mother was Caroline Dorothea Pauline Henriette Macrae of Holmains († December 12, 1880). From 1854 to 1857 he studied construction sciences at the Collegium Carolinum, and then worked in the ducal building management and the ducal railway administration. There he worked as an engineer in the construction of the Holzminden – Kreiensen state railway .

Between 1863 and 1865 Uhde stayed for a longer period of study in France, where he a. a. Heard lectures at Viollet-le-Duc in Paris and worked on restoration projects under Émile Boeswillwald (1815–1896) at Saint-Chapelle and Orleans Cathedral.

From 1865 to 1901 Uhde lectured at the Collegium Carolinum, from 1871 as a professor of ancient architecture. Several study trips took him during this time. a. to the world exhibitions in Paris (1867) and Vienna (1873), to Italy (1869, 1872, 1878, 1883 and 1886), England (1859, 1887), Scotland and Ireland (1890/1891) and to the Iberian Peninsula (1888 / 1889).

In 1877 he was one of the founders of the Braunschweiger Kunstgewerbeverein, as its chairman from 1884 to 1903. In 1881 Uhde was one of the founding members of the Feuchten Brush , a regulars' table that brought artists and art lovers together in Braunschweig.

Uhde traveled to Chicago for the World Exhibition in 1893 on behalf of the German Reich and was appointed Privy Councilor in the same year. In 1898 he was awarded the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Order of Henry the Lion for his services .

Buildings (selection)

Uhde was strongly influenced by the architect Gottfried Semper . He built almost exclusively in Braunschweig in the Neo-Renaissance style , based on models from the Italian and German Renaissance.

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image	building	location	Construction year	comment
	New synagogue and Jewish community center	Braunschweig Steinstrasse 4	1873-1875	Badly damaged in the November pogrom in 1938, demolished in 1940 due to alleged "dilapidation"
	New building for the Collegium Carolinum	Braunschweig Pockelsstrasse 4	1877
	Villa Vieweg	Braunschweig	1879	Home of the publisher Heinrich Vieweg
	Villa Westermann	Braunschweig Löwenwall 6	1880	Home of the publisher Friedrich Westermann
	Villa Rimpau	Braunschweig Wolfenbütteler Strasse 2	1881-1882
	Villa Löbbecke on Löbbecke's island	Braunschweig Inselwall	1881
	Renovation of the facade of the Haus zur Sonne	Braunschweig Kohlmarkt	1885
	Hotel monopoly	Braunschweig Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz 4	1889	Changed attic after war damage
Image wanted	Villa Cramer by Clausbruch	Braunschweig Bismarckstrasse 10	1889-1890	Villa of the ducal court marshal August Cramer von Clausbruch (1854–1927), 1933–2016 St. Vinzenz hospital
	Löbbecke bank	Braunschweig At the Martinikirche 4	1892-1893
Image wanted	synagogue	Wolfenbüttel Lessingstrasse	1893	destroyed in the November pogrom in 1938
	Residential and commercial building	Braunschweig Bohlweg 39	before 1896	destroyed in World War II

Fonts

Alcalá de Henares staircase of the archbishop's palace (architectural monuments in Spain and Portugal) 1888.

• Constantin Uhde: New building for the Ducal Technical University in Braunschweig. Wasmuth, Berlin [1881] ( tu-braunschweig.de ).
• Constantin Uhde: Public and Private Buildings. Behrens, Braunschweig 1887 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).
• Constantin Uhde (Hrsg.): Baudenkmaeler in Spain and Portugal. Wasmuth, Berlin 1892 (Volume 1 tu-braunschweig.de and Volume 2: archive.org ).
• Constantin Uhde (ed.): Architectural monuments in Great Britain. Wasmuth, Berlin 1894 (Volume 1, archive.org ).
• Constantin Uhde: The constructions and the art forms of architecture: their origin and historical development among different peoples. 4 volumes. Wasmuth, Berlin 1902-1911.
  • Volume 1: The constructions and the art forms: their historical, systematic development, based on material and techniques. Wasmuth, Berlin 1902 ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 2: Timber construction: its artistic and historical-geographical development, as well as its influence on stone architecture , Wasmuth, Berlin 1903 ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 3: Stone construction in natural stone: the historical development of the cornices in the various architectural styles. Wasmuth, Berlin 1904 ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 4, half volume 1: The stone construction in artificial stone: the historical development of the cornices in the different architectural styles. Wasmuth, Berlin 1905 ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 4, half volume 2: iron and bronze. Their extraction, processing and artistic design, especially for building purposes up to the end of the 18th century. Wasmuth, Berlin 1911 (edited by Carl Zetzsche: archive.org ).

literature

• Ralf Busch: Constantin Uhde as synagogue architect . In: Artibus et Historiae . tape 9 , no. 17 , 1988, ISSN  0391-9064 , p. 39-48 , doi : 10.2307 / 1483316 , JSTOR : 1483316 .
• Eberhard Drüeke: Uhde, Constantin, Prof. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 616 .
• Christina Krafczyk : Constantin Uhde. Building in Braunschweig. (= Sources and research on Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Volume 50.) Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.), Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-944939-20-9 .
• Hans Leitzen: Constantin Uhde. Commemorative speech given in the Braunschweig Museum of Applied Arts on October 23, 1905. Limbach, Braunschweig 1905 ( tu-braunschweig.de , archive.org ).
• Simon Paulus: German Architect Trips - Between Renaissance and Modernism. Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2011, pp. 105-108.
• GZ: Konstantin Uhde †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . ( ZDB -ID 2406062-8 ), Volume 25, 1905, No. 51 (from June 24, 1905), p. 323 ( digital.zlb.de ).

Web links

Commons : Constantin Uhde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Constantin Uhde in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by Constantin Uhde in the catalog of the German National Library
• Life data and complete list of buildings ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on biblio.tu-braunschweig.de