Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann

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Jenisch House in Jenischpark ( Klein Flottbek )
Amsinck-Palais on the Inner Alster

Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann (born April 19, 1795 in Hamburg ; † March 17, 1878 ibid) was a German architect , master builder and employee of the building deputation, who played a decisive role in shaping classicism in Hamburg.

Live and act

childhood and education

Forsmann was the son of the engraver Gustav Andreas Forsmann (1773-1830) and his wife Abel Margaretha Sophia Meyer (1753-1836). In his youth he worked with his father as a copperplate engraver and received lessons in the drawing school of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein in Eutin . From 1815 to 1818 he trained as a house carpenter . On October 2, 1819, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In the following years he trained in architecture on trips to Germany, France, Italy and England and probably obtained an architecture diploma in 1824.

Work in the building deputation

From 1824 Forsmann was a freelancer in the building deputation; he was elected on April 28, 1828 as a building manager and on April 27, 1841 as the first building inspector. As the architect of the Hamburg building deputation under Carl Ludwig Wimmel , Forsmann was significantly involved in public buildings such as the stock exchange and the Johanneum.

As a city architect, he was the planner for the first versions of a new building for a "three-purpose building" with the Johanneum secondary school, the trade schools and the trade museum at Schweinemarkt (today Lange Mühren), a project that, after his retirement in 1871, the new city architect Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann took over, but realized with larger areas on the "Lämmermarkt", today's location on Steintorplatz. The former multifunctional building has housed since 1976, i. H. after the last of the remaining trade schools moved out, only the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts remains .

The period from approx. 1825 to approx. 1870, in which Forsmann worked, encompasses an epoch of upheavals in the history of architecture . Around 1840, the round arch style replaced the classicism that had prevailed until then, and in Hamburg the Great Fire of 1842 marked an important new beginning for urban planning . Soon afterwards the discussion about choosing the right ( historicizing ) architectural style began. At the same time, the dispute between the advocates of plastered and brick architecture falls in Forsmann's life . He himself lived on Carolinenstrasse.

Architect for private clients

In addition to his work for the city of Hamburg, Forsmann has built numerous residential buildings for respected merchants, mayors and senators. The residential and commercial building for the banker Gottlieb Jenisch on the Inner Alster as well as the Weber and Vorwerk country houses in the Elbe suburbs are among the most beautiful preserved examples of architecture and interiors of late classicism in Hamburg. The city palace for Gottlieb Jenisch on Neuer Jungfernstieg had an “Entree-Salon”, three further salons, a “Great Hall” and a “Buffet Room” on the first floor alone. Today the building is the seat of the Überseeclub and is named Amsinckhaus after a later owner.

His brother Martin Johann Jenisch the Younger wanted a classicist country house to be built in Othmarschen . He had acquired a large piece of land there in 1828 that afforded a wide view of the Elbe. Forsmann's original designs for the Jenisch House were submitted by Jenisch to the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel . He independently designed a large country house that had nothing in common with Forsmann's plans. Forsmann then revised Schinkel's plans. The changes are so serious that the existing building can no longer be called Schinkelbau. After the great fire of 1842, Forsmann built a house in Ferdinandstrasse and a summer house in Eppendorf, which was still very rural at the time, for Hamburg's mayor Heinrich Kellinghusen .

buildings

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Honors

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the architect's collective grave commemorates Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann. Forsmannstrasse in Hamburg-Winterhude has been named after him since 1907 .

literature

  • Julia Berger and Bärbel Hedinger (eds.): Franz Gustav Forsmann, A Hamburg Architect's Career , 1795 - 1878. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-927637-48-3 . (A publication by the Altona Museum on the occasion of the exhibition in the Jenisch Haus from June 13th to October 29th, 2006).
  • Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, p. 191 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Deutsche Bauzeitung, Vol. 12 (1878) No. 34, p. 174
  2. ^ Forsmann, Abel Margaretha Sophia . In: Association f. Hamburg History (Ed.): Hamburg Artist Lexicon . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 74 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Georg Ludwig Eckhardt: Hamburg artist news . Gauss, Hamburg 1794, p. 110–111 ( uni-goettingen.de ).
  4. 00533 Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann. In: Matrikelbuch 1, (1809–1841). Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 1819, accessed on October 12, 2016 .
  5. ^ Andreas Bernhard (Ed.): Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Guide to his buildings. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, p. 230

Remarks

  1. Home address 1878 “Forsmann, FGJ, Carolinenstr. 22 “in: Hamburg address book at Hamburg State Library