Erhard Brielmaier

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Erhard Brielmaier
St. Josephat Basilica, Brielmaier's most important work

Erhard Brielmaier (born January 7, 1841 in Neufra near Rottweil , Württemberg ; † August 30, 1917 ) was a German-American architect in church construction .

Life

As a child, Erhard Brielmaier and his family emigrated to the city of Cincinnati in Ohio , which was developing rapidly at the time, in the great wave of emigration by the Forty-Eighters after the failed March Revolution in 1950 . Here Brielmaier learned technical drawing and became active in building the altar. He worked under his father, a carpenter, where he initially planned and built residential and commercial properties and gained his first experience with building churches.

On November 27, 1860, he married Theresia Haag, with whom he had 13 children. In 1873 Brielmaier moved with his family to Milwaukee and founded an architecture firm for church construction there. In 1881 he had more than a dozen employees. Five of his sons later joined the company, whereupon the company renamed E. Brielmaier & Sons in 1887. Brielmaier became known with the construction of the St. Josaphat Basilica from 1897 to 1901 in Milwaukee. Brielmaier & Sons, with an agency in Chicago, is said to have designed more than 800 churches in 22 US states and Canada by 1960, as well as more than 200 often Catholic schools and hospitals.

Brielmaier died in 1917 and was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee, for which his company had designed the gatehouse and cemetery chapel.

children

His sons Bernard Anselm, Joseph Mary and Leo Anthony were trained in architecture and joined the company. His eldest son John Erhard Brielmaier studied wood carving in Stuttgart . His daughter Clothilde studied art in Munich and Rome . She is said to have been the first woman in the USA to have her own studio and was successful in decorating churches with portraits and other paintings.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annemarie Springer, Nineteenth Century German-American Church Artists, June 2001
  2. ↑ a b Stephanie Trevino: Erhard Brielmaier and E. Brielmaier & Sons (English)
  3. ↑ Brielmaier, Erhard at Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada (English)
  4. ↑ a b About Erhard Brielmaier Friends of Calvary Cemetery (English)
personal data
SURNAME Brielmaier, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American architect in church construction
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Neufra near Rottweil , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1917