Ephraim Wolfgang Glasewald
Ephraim Wolfgang Glasewald (born June 20, 1753 in Wilschdorf near Dresden , † April 18, 1817 in Berlin ) was a Saxon , later Prussian architect .
Life
Glasewald was a student of his brother-in-law Johann Gottfried Kuntsch . In 1778 he entered the service of the Elector of Saxony and in this role he was in charge of the construction of the Elbe bridge near Wittenberg , which was completed in 1787. In addition, he carried out numerous private residential buildings.
Then Glasewald entered the Prussian service, where he was employed in the Oberstallamt. In 1786 Carl Graf Lindenau became the new Prussian head stable master and commissioned Glasewald to build new stud farms in Neustadt an der Dosse . The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Hauptgestüt was completed in 1789, the Churmärkisches Landgestüt was completed in 1791.
Since 1791 Glasewald has been in charge of the construction of the grounds of the Machern Landscape Park near Leipzig , one of the most important sentimental landscape gardens of the 18th century, for Count Lindenau . Here Glasewald u. a. the Gothic farmhouse (1792), Wilhelms Ruh (artificial ruin, 1792), the pyramid (mausoleum, 1792), the so-called knight's castle (1795/96) and the temple of Hygieia (1797).
Because of Glasewald's work for Lindenau in Machern, Michael Seiler suggested that Glasewald was the author of the Lindenau new buildings in Glienicke . It is essentially the “garden salon” with side treb houses and the tea pavilion “Curiosity” as well as small and useful architectures, none of which have been preserved.
After Glasewald had rebuilt the royal stables from 1810, King Friedrich Wilhelm III awarded it to him in 1811 . the title "Hofbaumeister".
Works (selection)
- Description of the garden to makers with special consideration for the types of wood in it. Berlin 1799 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.43346
literature
- Glasewald, Ephraim Wolfgang (not Friedr. Wilhelm) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 240 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Michael Seiler: The history of the development of the landscape garden Klein-Glienicke 1796-1883. Dissertation, Hamburg 1986, pp. 10-43.
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Saxony II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998 (Dietlinde Brugmann), pp. 668–670.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glasewald, Ephraim Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilschdorf near Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1817 |
| Place of death | Berlin |