Georg Gottfried Kallenbach

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Georg Gottfried Kallenbach (born May 18, 1805 in Graudenz , † February 1, 1865 in Bamberg ) was a German architectural historian.

Life

The son of the Graudenzer leather manufacturer Johann Georg Kallenbach first studied law . Largely financially independent, from 1833 he devoted himself entirely to his favorite subjects, in particular to medieval architectural history. From 1837 he made extensive trips through the German states and collected material for his later works. In doing so, he recorded plans of buildings and produced numerous elevations, on the basis of which models on a scale of 1: 160 were made from wood and paper. He used this on his lecture tours, which he undertook from 1840 to 1846, to illustrate the architecture of the Middle Ages. In 1848 he sold a large part of his models to the Berlin New Museum . From 1853 until the end of his life he lived in Bamberg, where he worked with the architect Jakob Schmitt-Friderich.

Kallenbach published various large-format panels on medieval architecture in Germany, especially Gothic , for which he made detailed final drawings. In doing so, he tried to capture the construction status of earlier periods by drawing. He made redrawings of preserved medieval designs of large churches with unfinished towers, such as the Cologne and Frankfurt Cathedral and the Ulm Minster . His drawings served as templates for various restorations in the 19th century and for the completion of the church towers.

Kallenbach Collection

The 250 models acquired by the Neues Museum in Berlin in 1848 were relocated to the new main building of the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1885 . To the manager was Carl Albert Grell appointed. His successor was Julius Carl Raschdorff in 1891 , to whom all of the university's architecture collections were subordinate. Finally, in 1912, Richard Borrmann took over the Kallenberg collection, which was incorporated into the Architecture Museum until 1919/1920 . Most of the models were lost during the Second World War .

Fonts (selection)

  • Atlas of the history of German-medieval architecture in 86 panels. Zach, Munich 1847 (digitized) .
  • Cologne Cathedral in its old parts, together with a complete medieval design for the tower. Zach, Munich 1847.
  • German-medieval architecture. Munich 1850.
  • with Jacob Schmitt: The Christian church architecture of the West from its beginnings to the completed development of the pointed arch style. Shown with regard to the entire literature devoted to this branch of art history. Pfeffer, Halle 1850 (digitized) .
  • Technical library for artists and craftsmen. A tasteful selection of architectural and mobile objects in a pure medieval style. Munich 1852.
  • Chronology of German-medieval architecture in 86 panels. Munich 1855.
  • Chronological sequence of forms of old German architecture up to the beginning of the current millennium with special consideration for the development of the pointed arch style: along with the attached drawings in 240 figures. A textbook for schools and for self-teaching. Zach, Munich 1855.

literature

  • Atlas of the history of German-medieval architecture in 86 panels. (with explanatory texts by Matthias Untermann) Primus Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-896-78393-6 [1] (PDF; 6.8 MB).
  • Kallenbach, Georg Gottfried. In: Adolf Seubert : The artists of all times and peoples or the life and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, etc. Volume 4. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1870, p. 231 ( online at Google books).
  • Obituary. In: Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House , Volume 7. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1865, p. 95 ( online at Google books).

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Gottfried Kallenbach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Körte: Georg Gottfried Kallenbach's reimagined models of old German buildings. In: Leaves for literary entertainment , year 1841, volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841, pp. 262–264. ( online at Google Books)
  2. ↑ Kallenbach Collection. Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology , Humboldt University Berlin , October 2009, accessed on January 2, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Kallenbach, Georg Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1865
Place of death Bamberg