Heinrich August Riedel

Heinrich August Riedel (born August 25, 1748 in Schleiz im Voigtland , † December 16, 1810 in Berlin ) was a German architect and painter , from 1778 a secret senior building officer and from 1804, alongside Johann Peter Morgenländer, second director of the technical building deputation.

Life

He was born as the son of the Bayreuth court architect Johann Gottlieb Riedel . His younger brothers were the chief building officer Heinrich Karl Riedel and the architect and painter Karl Christian Riedel .

Riedel received his first training in architecture, painting, mathematics and physics from his father, after moving to Berlin in 1769 he worked under Jan Bouman the Elder . Ä. active. In 1775 he graduated from the Oberbaudepartement and was then employed as a building inspector in almost all of the Prussian provinces. Since 1778 assessor at the senior building department, he was promoted to the secret senior building officer in 1783. From around 1785 to 1787 he was entrusted with the reclamation in the Altmark, especially in the Drömling , the drainage of which he completed in 1801.

In 1790 Friedrich accompanied Gilly Riedel on his journey through Westphalia and Holland. On this study trip you dealt extensively with hydraulic engineering.

In 1798, Riedel belonged to the preparatory commission for the foundation of the Berlin Academy of Architecture , where he taught electricity and dyke construction from 1799 to 1801 and where he was director together with Gilly , along with David Gilly , Michael Philipp Boumann , Carl Gotthard Langhans , Friedrich Becherer and Johann Albert Eytelwein , Eytelwein and Becherer after it was founded in 1799. After teaching, he remained a member of the board of directors and the academic deputation until 1809.

One of his students was the English architect and engineer Benjamin Latrobe , who later emigrated to America .

Together with Becherer, Gilly and Eytelwein he also became director and member of the Senate of the Royal Academy of Arts . In 1803 he was promoted to second director in the building department. In 1809 he was dismissed, but continued to work as an expert.

Awards

Honorary member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Berlin, Section for the Fine Arts.

Works (selection)

Buildings

1780–1796: Drainage project for the Drömling lowlands

around 1810: Preacher's widow house Friedrichstrasse 213.

Fonts

Something about decent decoration of the facades . In: Collection of useful articles and news relating to architecture . tape 2 . Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin 1797, p. 48–58 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Detailed instructions on straw and dike knowledge. Lange, Berlin 1800 (The theoretical part first volume, which contains preparatory teachings, uni-goettingen.de ).

literature

Heinrich August Riedel . In: Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1799–1899 . Wilhelm Ernst and Son, Berlin 1899, 1. Die Bauakademie, p. 30 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Riedel, Heinrich August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 317 .
Uwe Kieling, Uwe Hecker: Berlin architects and master builders until 1800. Miniatures on the history, culture and monument preservation of Berlin, No. 9, Berlin 1983.
Christiane Brandt-Salloum, Ralph Jaeckel, Constanze Krause, Oliver Sander, Reinhart Fahrt, Michaela Utpatel and Stephan Waldhoff: Inventory for the history of the Prussian building administration 1723–1848 (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property ; work reports . 2 volumes, no. 7 ). Self-published by the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2005 ( gsta.spk-berlin.de [PDF] Editor: Reinhart Route).

Individual evidence

^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: Riedel, Heinrich August . In: New general artist lexicon… EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 155 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ ^a ^b Heinrich August Riedel. In: Catalogus Professorum. TU Berlin, accessed on February 15, 2020 .
↑ From the history of the Technical University in Berlin (continuation from No. 27) . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . No. 29 . Wilhelm Ernst and Son, Berlin April 15, 1889, p. 170–172 , Riedel, p. 172 left column, center ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ July: Drömling - wooden lock on Friedrichskanal. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
^ Predigerwitwenhaus Friedrichstrasse 213, around 1810 - to Riedel . In: Berlin builders from the end of the eighteenth century . Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1914 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Riedel, Heinrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Riedel the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, painter and secret senior building officer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schleiz
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 1810
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Georg Kaspar Nagler: Riedel, Heinrich August . In: New general artist lexicon… EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 155 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[:0-2] Heinrich August Riedel. In: Catalogus Professorum. TU Berlin, accessed on February 15, 2020 .

[3] From the history of the Technical University in Berlin (continuation from No. 27) . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . No. 29 . Wilhelm Ernst and Son, Berlin April 15, 1889, p. 170–172 , Riedel, p. 172 left column, center ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] July: Drömling - wooden lock on Friedrichskanal. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on February 17, 2020 .

[5] Predigerwitwenhaus Friedrichstrasse 213, around 1810 - to Riedel . In: Berlin builders from the end of the eighteenth century . Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1914 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).