Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer
Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer (born February 24, 1800 in Darmstadt ; † December 1, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect and writer .
Life
Hessemer was the son of the Hessian building councilor Bernhard Hessemer . He attended several years the high school in his native town, but earned no degree, but entered earlier at the request of his father in the Grand Ducal artillery one, on the military school he studied in particular mathematics , then two years at the University of Giessen science and philosophy . In 1817 he became a member of the Christian-German fraternity / honor mirror fraternity and took part in the Wartburg Festival. His cousins Adolf Ludwig Follen , Karl Follen and Paul Follen were among the leading figures of this student movement.
The first literary publications, mostly poems, fall during his time in Giessen. When he returned to Darmstadt, he continued his architecture studies .
After completing his training, he went on a two-year educational trip to Italy in 1827 . In Rome he was offered a position as a teacher for architecture at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . Hessemer managed, however, that he was allowed to extend his study trip to Egypt beforehand . He returned with hundreds of drawings of Arab buildings and works of art and took up his new position in Frankfurt in August 1830. In 1831 he was accepted into the Masonic Lodge Zur Einigkeit in Frankfurt am Main.
Hessemer stayed at the Städel until his death; He had refused a call to Dresden at the local building school in 1838 . He died in Frankfurt on December 1, 1860. His grave is in Frankfurt's main cemetery , close to one of his most important works, the mausoleum for Countess Emilie von Reichenbach-Lessonitz , built between 1845 and 1847 .
Works
- Template sheets for the first lesson in drawing . Mainz 1835
- Old Italian and Arabic architectural decorations . Berlin 1840 / second edition 1853
- Das Fahrtor , in: Archive for Frankfurt History and Art (AFGK) 1 , 1839
- The parish tower with regard to its aesthetic character and in consideration of its further expansion , in: AFGK 3 , 1844 (including the representation of the preserved medieval drawings)
- The wooden gate , in: AFGK 3 , 1844
- Jussuf und Nafisse (1847), a fairytale-like narrative in an oriental style
- Songs of the Unknown Congregation (Leipzig FABrockhaus, 1854), poems: 1st collection: God, world and man, 2nd collection: religion, duty and love, 3rd collection: nature, life and consciousness
- Ring and Arrow (1859), a verse novel
- Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer. Letters from his trip to Italy, Malta and Egypt 1827-1830 . Vol. 1: Italy and Malta. Vol. 2: Egypt and Italy, using the preparatory work of Maria Teresa Morreale ed. and with note vers. by Christa Staub, Hamburg 2002–2003
- Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer. Commemorative book of his trip to Italy and Egypt 1827 - 1830. Transcription, edition and annotated by Christa Staub. With a contribution by Jörg-Ulrich Fechner, Darmstadt 2007
literature
- W. Stricker: Hessemer, Friedrich Maximilian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 281 f.
- The picturesque Friedberg - pencil sketch by Fritz Max Hessemer . Friedberg 1919
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 325–328.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer, a forgotten representative of Giessen's literary and cultural life in the 19th century
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hessemer, Friedrich Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hessemer, Fritz Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1860 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |