Heinrich von Geymüller

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Heinrich von Geymüller

Heinrich Adolf von Geymüller (born May 12, 1839 in Vienna , † December 19, 1909 in Baden-Baden ) was a Swiss art and architecture historian .

Geymüller was the son of Johann Heinrich Falkner . He was named after his maternal grandparents. He spent his childhood in Vienna, Brighton and Paris, becoming a half-orphan when he was nine, and went to school in Basel, Frankfurt and Lausanne. From 1856 he studied engineering in Lausanne and from 1857 at the École Centrale in Paris, where he graduated in 1860 as an engineer-designer. This was followed by studies at the Berlin Building Academy from 1860 to 1863 . From 1864 he was back in Paris, where he worked at the Académie des Beaux-Arts , in the Atelier Questel and in the design office of the Collège Chaptal .

Since his first trip to Italy in 1864, he was concerned with the Italian Renaissance. His dissertation from 1868 dealt with St. Peter in Rome. Geymüller's life was concerned with the history of the building of St. Peter's Basilica , and also with the role of Bramante . He dedicated further monographs to the architects Fra Giocondo , Raffael and Brunelleschi and the Du Cerceau family . He published as one of the first sources on Rome's thermal baths. His correspondence with Jacob Burckhardt also deserves attention as a source of cultural history . Geymüller published in German, Italian and French, and with his extensive scientific oeuvre laid the foundation for the modern architectural history of the Renaissance.

After he campaigned against the Eugène Viollet-le-Ducs restoration project of the cathedral in Lausanne in 1873 , he regularly participated in restoration issues of art monuments all over Europe, namely the completion of the facade of the Milan Cathedral , St. Peter's Basilica, Chillon Castle , St. François in Lausanne and the San Lorenzo in Florence. In the dispute about a possible reconstruction of the Heidelberg Castle , Geymüller and Georg Dehio opposed a reconstruction. Heinrich von Geymüller took part in the first international monument preservation congress in 1889 as the representative of Switzerland. He died in Baden-Baden in 1909 at the age of 70. In Aachen, a specialist publisher for architecture and building history of the same name honors Heinrich von Geymüller's life's work .

Publications (selection)

  • Notes on the designs for St. Peter in Rome, based on sources unknown until now , Karlsruhe 1868
  • The original designs for Sanct Peter in Rome by Bramante, Raphael Santi, Fra Giocondo, the Sangallos and others: with numerous additions and a text , Vienna 1875
  • Les projets primitifs pour la Basilique de Saint-Pierre de Rome, par Bramante, Raphael Sanzio, Fra Giocondo , Paris 1875
  • Cento disegni di architettura d'ornato e di figure di Frà Giovanni Giocondo , Firenze [u. a.] 1882
  • Documents inédits sur les thermes d'Agrippa, le Parthénon et les thermes de Dioclétien , Lausanne 1883
  • Raffaello Sanzio studiato come architetto con l'ajuto di nuovi documenti , Milano 1884
  • with Carl Martin von Stegmann : The architecture of the Renaissance in Toscana - depicted in the most outstanding churches, palaces, villas and monuments , Munich 1885ff.
    • Vol. 1: Filippo di Ser Brunellesco , 1885-1893
    • Vol. 2: Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, Donatello, Verrocchio, Jacopo della Quercia, Die della Robbia, Cavalcanti , 1885–1907
    • Vol. 3: Leon Battista Alberti, Bernardo and Antonio Rosselino , with Carl von Stegmann, 1885–1907
    • Vol. 4: Desiderio da Settignano, Giuliano da Maiano, Benedetto da Maiano, Mino, Andrea Sansovino, Il Cronaca , 1890–1906
    • Vol. 5: Leonardo da Vinci - Giuliano da Sangallo - Antonio da Sangallo the Elder , 1885–1908
    • Vol. 6: Andrea Bregno, Giudoccio di Andrea, master in Siena, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, master in Lucca, Vitoni, Portigiani , 1889–1907
    • Vol. 7: Raffaello, Antonio di Sangallo the Younger, Baccio d'Agnolo, Rovezzano, Giuliano di Baccio d'Agnolo, Bandinelli, Peruzzi, Vignola, Folfi , 1885–1908
    • Vol. 8: Michelangelo Buonarotti , 1904
    • Vol. 9: Dosio, Tasso, Cristofanello, Vasari, Ammannati , 1885-1904
    • Vol. 10: General, Illustrazione storica. Introduction, material and work of construction, hand drawings and models, churches, palaces, courtyards, loggias, villas , 1885–1908
    • Vol. 11: General, Illustrazione storica. Building parts, ornaments and sgraffiti, general overview and final word. 1890-1908
    • Register tape , 1909
  • Les Du Cerceau leur vie et leur œuvre , Paris [a. a.] 1887
  • Handbuch der Architektur / Part 2, Vol. 6, H. 1 / Historical representation of the development of the architectural style , 1898
  • Manual of Architecture / Part 2, Vol. 6, H. 2 / Structural and aesthetic styles. Church architecture , 1901
  • Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen and the beginnings of Renaissance architecture in Italy , Munich 1908
  • Architecture and Religion - Thoughts on the Religious Effects of Architecture , Basel 1911
  • Correspondence with Jakob Burckhardt , Munich, 1914
  • Bramante Studies , Vienna 1915

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SURNAME Geymüller, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geymüller, Heinrich Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art and architecture historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1909
Place of death Baden-Baden