Georg Gottlob Thunderstorm

Georg Gottlob Ungewitter (born September 15, 1820 in Wanfried ; † November 6, 1864 in Kassel ) was a German architect and builder .

Life

The house at Hermannstrasse 3 at the corner of Alstertor in Hamburg's old town was built by a thunderstorm at the end of the 1840s as part of the reconstruction after the Hamburg fire .

The Ev. Church of Neustadt (Hessen) , built in neo-Gothic style and inaugurated on August 1, 1859, designed by storm

Ungewitter was one of the first representatives of the revival of Gothic forms in Germany ( neo-Gothic or neo-Gothic) and thus played an important role in historicist architecture, especially in church construction.

Ungewitter taught at the higher trade school in Kassel between 1852 and 1864 . There were among others Rudolph Amandus Philippi (natural scientist) and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (chemist) his colleagues, the architect Wilhelm Lotz 1851/52 his colleague and student. Ungewitter's teaching, building designs and published book projects have helped develop high standards of workmanship with an archaeological accuracy. Its fine details of columns, windows and beam heads are only common a generation later. How big his role actually was in the spread of neo-Gothic in the German-speaking area would have to be carefully worked out. The origins in England are recognizable in him as in his contemporaries.

Apparently only a few of his designs were built (in contrast to his stylistically and regionally close colleague Conrad Wilhelm Hase). This was certainly due firstly to his primary role as a teacher, but then secondly to his originality; In particular, the stand-alone buildings are extremely diverse, with numerous additions, bay windows and, above all, complicated roofs, the bodies of which sometimes literally penetrate one another. Thirdly, however, Ungewitter does not make the obvious change from the simple floor plan of Romanticism to a strong differentiation into many different functional spaces in Historicism. Ungewitter was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Fonts (selection)

• Gothic furniture designs. Carl Flemming, Glogau 1851, OCLC 11695006 .
• City and country house designs. 52 building drafts, 12 deliveries, 2 volumes, Verlag von Carl Fleming, Glogau 1856–1864, OCLC 43738995 .
• Text-book of Gothic constructions. TO Weigel, Leipzig 1859–1864, doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-27124
  • 2nd improved edition. Leipzig 1880, plate tape, digitized UB Heidelberg
  • 3rd edition: Textbook of Gothic constructions revised by K. Mohrmann . Leipzig 1890 Volume 1 , Volume 2 (digitized version of the Bavarian State Library)
  • 4th edition. Leipzig 1901–1903 Volume 1  - Internet Archive , Volume 2  - Internet Archive
• Gothic furniture details. Hessling, Berlin 1893 (2 volumes).
• Details for stone and brick architecture in the Romanesque-Gothic style. 4th edition. Hessling, Berlin 1896 ( digitized version )
• Gothic wood architecture. Hessling, Berlin 1896 ( digitized version )

literature

• Thunderstorm, Georg Gottlob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 577 .
• Wolfgang Brönner : The bourgeois villa in Germany 1830–1890. Patmos-Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987.
• Karen David-Sirocko: Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and the picturesque neo-Gothic in Hesse, Hamburg, Hanover and Leipzig. Verlag Michael Imhof, Petersberg 1997, ISBN 3-932526-03-1 .
• Kathrin Ellwardt:  Thunderstorm, Georg Gottlob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , pp. 639-641 ( digitized version ).
• August Reichensperger : Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and his work as a builder: mostly depicted from his letters. TO Weigel, Leipzig 1866, OCLC 601710915 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Gottlob Ungewitter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Georg Gottlob Ungewitter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Gottlob Ungewitter on worldcat.org (list of publications)
• Thunderstorm, Georg Gottlob. Hessian biography. (As of August 3, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).