Georg Erbkam
Georg Gustav Erbkam (born September 29, 1811 in Glogau , † February 3, 1876 in Berlin ) was a German architect and building researcher who worked as a Prussian building officer .
Career as an architect
Georg Gustav Erbkam was born in Glogau as the youngest of four brothers. His father was a privy councilor, his mother a daughter of the court preacher Sack . In 1815 the father received an appointment to Berlin and the family took up residence there. Here Georg attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium . He found it difficult to acquire the ancient languages taught at the school (Latin, Greek), but he showed a talent for drawing. So, on the advice of his father, he decided to start his career as an architect. First he did an apprenticeship as a surveyor , which he completed with an examination in 1831. While he was practically active in this field, Erbkam also completed a two-year course for master builders and a one-year training course for agricultural inspectors at the Royal General Building School . His internships took him to work on hydraulic structures in the Frankfurt (Oder) administrative district and to work on land structures under the direction of the Langerhans town planning council . In 1836 Georg Erbkam passed the preliminary examination as a land and road builder , in 1837 as an agricultural inspector , and in 1838 as a hydraulic engineering inspector . After submitting a well-rated design for a university building as a thesis, he was awarded the title of agricultural inspector in July 1841 .
Experience in antiquity research in Egypt
Karl Richard Lepsius invited Erbkam in 1842 to participate as an architect and geodesist in an expedition to Egypt financed by the Prussian state . He acted as Lepsius' deputy and carried most of the organizational responsibility. During the expedition he kept the diary in which he recorded the work flow, the living conditions and the personal circumstances of the expedition participants from 1842 to 1845. His topographical recordings, his plans of the temples and graves set standards for the development of historical building research . He made plans for the pyramid fields near Memphis , the area of Abu Roasch and Amarna and also building surveys of the pyramids and mastabas from Gizeh to Fayum , as well as the rock tombs of Beni Hasan . He also measured the temples of Thebes and Karnak . The exact recording of ancient Egyptian architecture in its landscape context was largely Erbkam's work. For the publication of the results in monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia (1849-1858) he made 81 plates .
Work and selection of his works
After his return, Erbkam sought a professorship, but was instead employed in 1846 as a master builder in the central state building administration affiliated to the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. He worked there with the architect Friedrich August Stüler in the church building department . He was appointed building inspector for church construction and carried out the construction of the church of the Georgengemeinde (1853) and the Markuskirche (1848 to 1855) in Berlin . In 1851 he took over the editing of the magazine for construction , in 1860 he became secretary of the association for religious art in the Protestant church . His own house in Eichhornstraße, the Golgothakapelle in Borsigstraße, the church in Glienicke / Nordbahn and in 1867 the Protestant church in Alexandria were built according to his own designs . From 1865 until his death he built the National Gallery together with Johann Heinrich Strack based on the designs of Stüler. Shortly before his death, he was appointed secret councilor .
Village church in Glienicke / Nordbahn
Tower of the Kaulsdorf village church
Evangelical Church in Alexandria (in an illustration from 1878)
Colonnade courtyard and National Gallery
literature
- Dedication: In memory of Georg Erbkam. In: Journal of Construction . 26th year 1876, col. 144.
- Erbkam, Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 590 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Elke Freier, Stefan Grunert: A journey through Egypt, based on the drawings of the Lepsius expedition in the years 1842–1845. 2nd, unchanged edition, Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-30198-3 .
- Elke Katharina Wittich: Erbkam, Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 264 f.
- Elke Freier: Georg Erbkam - the Prussian in Egypt. In: Ingelore Hafemann (Ed.): Prussia in Egypt, Egypt in Prussia (= kaleidograms. Volume 59.) Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86599-104-1 , pp. 115–127.
- Elke Freier (Ed.): "Whoever had a hundred eyes here ..." GG Erbkam's travel letters from Egypt and Nubia. Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86599-171-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Erbkam in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Georg Erbkam in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Georg Gustav Erbkam: Diary of my Egyptian trip , in the transcription by Elke Freier, with the collaboration of Stefan Grunert, edited by the working group Old Egyptian Dictionary of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (1st part as digitized and full text in the German text archive ; 2nd part Digitized and full text in the German Text Archive ; Part 3 digitized and full text in the German Text Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sabrina Bernhard, Sören Franke: Georg Gustav Erbkam ( memento of October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), at lepsius-online
- ^ Obituary for Georg Erbkam in the ZS für Bauwesen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF) 1876, booklets I – III; P. 78 (144).
- ↑ Erbkam finished the diary in November 1845 in Rome, according to Wittich, AKL the expedition ended in 1846.
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Günter Lerch : He drew the strong man on the Nile. In: FAZ , July 27, 2013, p. 32.
- ^ A b c Elke Freier, Stefan Grunert: A journey through Egypt…. Munich 1986, p. 175.
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SURNAME | Erbkam, Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erbkam, Georg Gustav (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and building researcher, Prussian building officer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1811 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Glogau |
DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1876 |
Place of death | Berlin |