Herman Major Schirmer

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Herman Major Schirmer (in the first row in a light suit) with his students, around 1890 in Heidal, studying the old Norwegian wooden architecture.
A picture for his architectural study about Heringstad and photography by Herman Major Schirmer
Bergens Kreditbank, built in Italian neo-renaissance in 1876 by Herman Major Schirmer

Herman Major Schirmer (born June 20, 1845 in Christiania ; † April 11, 1913 ibid) was a Norwegian architect , architectural historian and imperial antiquarian of German descent.

Life

After finishing school he began his professional preparation for the later training to become an architect. His father Heinrich Ernst Schirmer took him on study trips to his home country in Germany and introduced him to the German-Norwegian painter and architect Franz Wilhelm Schiertz from Bergen , through which he gained his first professional experience. He then began studying at the Dresden Art Academy (1866–68). After further study trips to Italy , Switzerland , Germany and Sweden , he returned to Christiania (Oslo) in 1869. There he worked as a freelance architect and was involved in various public buildings in Norway , such as For example, the Hotell Royal in Oslo, villas on Frognersæteren, a church in Hamar and the Bergens credit bank . From 1873 to 1884 he taught architecture and from 1884 to 1911 design and ornamentation at the State School for Art and Design (Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole), which is now part of the Oslo School of Art . He was instrumental in the further development of his academy and shaped a whole generation of Norwegian architects of his time. With students and young architects he made several scientific study trips (1895–1912) through Norway to document and research traditional Norwegian folk building methods. Schirmer published several papers and treatises on this, also on medieval architecture in Norway , the building culture in the Middle Ages, studies on Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim , as well as contemporary building. With the support of the Norwegian Association of Young Architects (Yngre arkitektforening), he was elected to the board of Fortidsminneforeningen (Association for the Preservation of Cultural and Historical Monuments) in 1891. He was also active in the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Reichsantiquaramt für Denkmalpflege) , which was initially still in Sweden, for Norway. From 1912 until his death in 1913, he was the first Norwegian imperial antiquarian , Norwegian : Riksantikvar (head of the state authority for monument protection - and maintenance).

family

Herman Major Schirmer is the son of the architect Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and his wife Sophie Ottilie Schirmer, b. Major (1821–1861) and the brother of the Norwegian architect Adolf Schirmer . He was married to Annette Magdalene Riis Wiese (born September 18, 1874, † July 11, 1927).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herman Major Schirmer's drawings digitized ( no ) Riksantikvaren . September 25, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
  2. ^ CW Sch .: Schirmer, 3) Herman Major . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Schinopsis spectrum . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 2–3 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Herman Major
ALTERNATIVE NAMES HSchirmer, Herman (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian architect, architectural historian and imperial antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1913
Place of death Christiania