Georg Gottlob Thunderstorm

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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 .

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