Heinrich von Schmidt

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Heinrich von Schmidt (1906)
Church of Our Lady in Laeken (Brussels) by Joseph Poelaert . Tower and portal porch completed by Heinrich von Schmidt in 1908.

Heinrich von Schmidt (born March 8, 1850 in Cologne , † September 4, 1928 in Munich ) was a German architect and university professor . From 1883 he was professor for medieval architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Von Schmidt passed his high school high school diploma in Vienna in 1869 . He then completed a university degree in architecture with Anton Wappler, Carl Wilhelm Christian von Doderer , Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König in Vienna, and with Conrad Wilhelm Hase in Hanover. In 1873 he began to work as an architect, the first independent job he restored from 1876 to 1879 the Marienkirche in Gelnhausen. In the same year he became construction manager at the Gothic St. Catherine's Church in Oppenheim, which was destroyed by the French, where he worked together with his father. The work was completed in 1889. In 1879 the restoration work began on the foundation church in Kaiserslautern and on the Michaelskirche in Oppenheim. Other projects were the Enderlin memorial at the cemetery in Mainz, the new construction of the Protestant parish church in Heinsheim in Hesse, the Catholic parish church in Veldenz (Moselle) and the Protestant parish churches in Oberhilbersheim and Flonheim in Rheinhessen.

In 1883 he moved to Munich to take over the newly established chair for medieval architecture at the Technical University as an associate professor. In an architectural competition in 1885 organized by the Munich Central Association for Church Construction, he was awarded a prize for his design for the Maximilian Church. The project envisaged a rich Gothic complex, which, however, was not realized due to the high construction costs. Von Schmidt then presented a new plan in the Romanesque style. Further work followed, for example he was made a cathedral master builder in Worms, the Royal Bavarian Privy Council, an honorary citizen of Oppenheim and Passau and, in 1887, the Imperial Austrian baron. In addition to his work as an architect, he was a member of the jury for major competitions, of the Munich commission for examining plans for public buildings, as an art council for the restoration of the Worms Cathedral, in the commission for the appraisal of the restoration work on the cathedral in Metz or as an expert for a planned interior decoration of the Strasbourg cathedral.

family

His parents were the Cologne building officer and later Viennese senior building officer Friedrich von Schmidt , who had been involved as an architect in the reconstruction of the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim since 1879, and his wife Katharina (née Mohr, 1827–1910)

Schmidt had been married to Antonia (born Hase, born in Hanover, February 14, 1855, † Munich, June 9, 1906) since July 27, 1876; she was a daughter of Conrad Wilhelm Hases (professor of architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and a secret government and building officer) and his wife Cornelia (née Babbnig). The couple had several children:

  • Katharina (1877–1946), who was married twice, first from October 24, 1901 to February 29, 1904 with the history painter Heinrich Froitzheim and after his death from May 10, 1906 with Ludwig Paffendorf , an architect from Cologne.
  • Arnold Freiherr von Schmidt (1879–1947), ⚭ June 17, 1909 with Hedwig (née Diesel, * 1885). She was the daughter of the inventor and engine designer Rudolf Diesel from Hanover and his wife Martha (née Bottle).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Schmidt (1884–1918) an architect.
  • Rudolf Freiherr von Schmidt (1885–1899).

Buildings and designs

literature

  • S. Staudhammer: Heinrich Freiherr von Schmidt on his 70th birthday . In: The Christian Art. Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 16th year. Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1920, p. 41–42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - supplement).
  • Schmidt, Heinrich Freih. from . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 145 .
  • Paul-Georg Custodis : The architect Heinrich von Schmidt and his activity in Rheinhessen between 1878 and 1889. In: Preservation of monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. 29/30, 1974/75, pp. 102-116.
  • Michael Huyer, Dieter Krienke (arrangement): District of Alzey-Worms, Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 20.1). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-327-5 , pp. 34, 72, 148, 151, 152 and 312.
  • Rose-Marie Forsthofer: The church planner. Heinrich von Schmidt is the builder of seven churches in Rhine-Hesse. In: Our Rheinhessen. 2014, 2, pp. 42-44.
  • Gottfried Braun: Heinrich von Schmidt. Church builder in Rheinhessen. In: Mainz-Bingen district. Homeland yearbook. 59, 2015, pp. 101-106.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ S. Staudhammer: Heinrich Freiherr von Schmidt on his 70th birthday . In: The Christian Art. Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 16th year. Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1920, p. 41–42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - supplement).
  2. ^ Schmidt, Heinrich Freiherr von. In: Hessian biography. State Historical Information System Hessen , 2017, accessed on July 4, 2019 (as of March 8, 2017).
  3. ^ Dehio handbook of German art monuments: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972, p. 687.
  4. ^ Dehio handbook of German art monuments: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972, p. 659.
  5. ↑ Thomas Thörle: A builder with a view of the sky: Heinrich Freiherr von Schmidt, the builder of the Protestant church in Nieder-Saulheim. In: Alzey-Worms district. Homeland yearbook . 37, 2002, pp. 84-85.
  6. ^ Dehio handbook of German art monuments: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972, p. 275.
  7. ↑ Fred Kaufmann, Dagmar Lutz, Gudrun Schmidt-Esters: Cologne street names. Neustadt and Deutz . Greven, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7743-0293-6 , pp. 143 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1928
Place of death Munich