Dawid Ivanovich Grimm

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Dawid Grimm

David Ivanovich Grimm ( Russian Давид Иванович Гримм , also David Grimm wrote; born March 22 . Jul / 3. April  1823 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † October 28 . Jul / 9. November  1898 . Greg ibid ) was a Russian architect and explorers of the Byzantine Empire , Georgia and Armenia . Grimm belonged to the second generation of architects who can be assigned to the neo-Byzantine style in the Russian Empire. He designed the cathedral in Tbilisi and smaller churches in Russia and Western Europe . Grimm was a long-time professor at the Petersburg Academy of Arts and headed his architectural office from 1887 to 1892.

Life

Tomb of Dawid Grimm in the Smolensk Cemetery in Saint Petersburg

Dawid Grimm came from a Protestant family in Germany, from where she moved to Russia in the 1760s because of religious oppression. Grimm began his training in 1840 in the sculpture class at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. However, after only a year he switched to the architecture class of Professor Alexander Brüllow . There he received a small and a large silver medal for his designs at the end of his studies. Furthermore, in 1848 he received authorization from the academy to be sent abroad for study purposes. This was initially forbidden to him by Tsar Nicholas I because of the revolutionary movements in Germany, but approved in 1850 on the condition that the architecture of the Caucasus regions had to be researched beforehand. He took on numerous buildings and published them under the title “Monuments d'architecture en Géorgie et en Arménie”. The introduction and travel description were written in French, but trilingual captions in German, Russian and French were always found on the plates. Grimm also traveled through Turkey, Greece, Italy, France and Germany. In 1855 Grimm returned to St. Petersburg. Because of the extensive documentation he was elected to the Academy of Architecture. He was also employed in the Ministry of Transport. Large parts of his numerous church designs were also implemented. From 1860 to 1887 Grimm was also senior professor for architecture at the Academy of Arts. From 1887 to 1892 he was rector of the academy. Since he could not agree with certain views of the newly appointed Vice President of the Academy, Count Tolstoy, he renounced this position in 1892 and was elected an honorary member of the Academy.

Buildings

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Vladimir Cathedral
  • the church on the estate of Grand Prince Michael Nikolajewitsch near Petershof,
  • the chapel at the place of death of the heir to the throne Nikolai Alexandrovich in Nice ,
  • the Russian Church in Geneva ,
  • the Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesos near Sevastopol ,
  • the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tbilisi ,
  • the Alexander Nevsky Church in Copenhagen,
  • the Russian Church in Gethsemane

Monuments

  • Monument to Peter the Great in Zhitomir,
  • Monument to Empress Catherine II in St. Petersburg
  • the victory monument in front of the Trinity Church in St. Petersburg

Individual evidence

  • David-Ivanovic Grimm: Monuments d'architecture byzantine en Georgie et en Armenie. A. Beggrow Publishing House, Saint Petersburg 1864
  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, W. Ernst & Sohn, 1898 p. 604
  2. ↑ [1] Full text: Monuments darchitecture en Géorgie et en Arménie
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, David Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, David; Гримм, Давид Иванович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian architect and researcher of the Byzantine Empire, Georgia and Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1898
Place of death St. Petersburg