Holm Hansen Munthe

Holm Hansen Munthe (born January 1, 1848 in Stange ; † May 23, 1898 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian architect who was instrumental in the development of the Norwegian kite style .

Life

Holm Hansen Munthe, the son of the Premier Lieutenant (later Major General and Minister) Adolph Fredrik Munthe (1817-1884) and Emilie Karen, née Hansen (1820-1884), began his training in Christiania with the German architect Wilhelm von Hanno . Like many of his compatriots who were trained as architects or engineers, he then went to Germany and studied from 1872 at the Hanover Polytechnic with Conrad Wilhelm Hase . As his assistant he was involved in public buildings in Hildesheim and then worked there in the city administration. In 1877 Munthe returned to Norway and ran an architecture office together with Henrik Nissen (1848–1915).

For the Norwegian industrial and art exhibition in 1883 he created the “Saugbrugs Verein-Portal”, his first work in the Norwegian dragon style, which is now known as “Oskar II. Portal” in the Norsk Folkemuseum on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo . In collaboration with Henrik Nissen, between 1881 and 1883 a log house with rooms, lounges and a bathing facility for lung patients was built in Christiania, the Larvik Bads Kurhus og Koldtvandsanstalt , in 1883 the Christiania Handelsgymnasium, Munch Gate 4 and in 1884 the Otto Andersen School, Uranienborgveien 7 In 1885 Munthe taught ornament and free-hand drawing at the Royal Drawing School in Christiania and was in charge of the Norwegian department at the Antwerp World Exhibition that year . In 1890 he got a job as a construction manager in the "Holmenkollen-Voksenkollen-Gesellschaft". It was during this time that his most important dragon-style buildings came into being, including the Holmenkollen Tourist Hotel, built in 1889 on the Holmenkollen near Christiania, and the Frognerseteren restaurant, completed in 1891, as well as a restaurant built in 1891 in today's Oslo district of St. Hanshaugen .

During his annual trips to the Nordland, Wilhelm II got to know Munthes work and commissioned him in 1891 to build the imperial hunting lodge in East Prussian Rominten, today's Krasnolessje , and in 1893 the stave church "Hubertuskapelle" with 120 seats. Out of enthusiasm for the architecture of the St. Hanshaugen restaurant, he also commissioned Munthe with the long-planned construction of the new sailor station on the Jungfernsee in Potsdam. The emperor wanted a copy of the restaurant as the reception hall. Three wooden houses and boat sheds completed the complex.

Together with the Norwegian art and literary historian Lorentz Dietrichson, Munte published a number of buildings in Norway and Germany in Berlin in 1893 under the title “The woodworking art of Norway in the past and present”. He was a member and later chairman of the Norwegian Association of Engineers and Architects and a member of the board of the Norwegian Museum of Architecture . In 1898, the year he died, he was appointed city architect in Christiania. This year, two red brick school buildings built according to his designs opened in the city, Bolteløkka skole in Eugenies gate and Lilleborg skole in Torshovgata.

power

In the course of Norway's striving for independence and the associated process of finding a cultural identity , a return to historical timber construction methods developed in the architectural design language , which began in the rural architectural style of Switzerland. Towards the end of the 19th century and Norwegian national romanticism, the so-called dragon style developed from the Swiss style, which contained elements from the wooden architecture of local stave churches , alpine chalets and decorative decorations from Viking art.

Holm Hansen Munthe was at the forefront of the "Renaissance movement of Norwegian architecture [...], which again referred to the shape of the horizontal block building and the vertical construction of the stave churches as well as their painterly formation through gables, vestibules and richly carved columns, beams and other ornamentation [ …]. “For his services he was awarded the Red Eagle Order 4th Class and the Golden Merit Medal Oskar II.

family

Holm Hansen Munthe married Inger Marie Nicoline Munthe (1864–1889) in 1888, the daughter of the doctor Christopher Pavels Munthe. He was related by marriage to the publisher of the daily “ Aftenposten ”, Amandus Schibsted (1849–1913), the landscape painter and art writer Gerhard Munthe (1849–1929) and the teacher, writer and children's book author Margrethe Munthe .

Works (selection)

"Oskar II. Portal", Bygdøy

• Larvik Bads Kurhus og Koldtvandsanstalt , various buildings together with Henrik Nissen, Christiania , Cort Adelers gate, 1880–1883 ​​(demolished)
• “Saugbrugs Verein-Portal”, 1883 (since 1907 as “Oskar II. Portal” in the Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo)
• Dragon-style waiting hall at Piperviksbryggen (former jetty in the Pipervika district of Oslo), Christiania, 1883 (since 1935 in the Norsk Folkemuseum)
• Villa for the brewery owner Gunerius Flakstad, Hamar , Skappels gate 14, 1884
• Christiana Handelsgymnasium (until 1985), Christiania, Munchs gate 4, 1883–1885, together with Nissen
• Otto Andersen School, Christiania, Uranienborgveien 7, 1884 (burned down in 1909), together with Nissen
• Church in Vestby , 1885, together with Nissen
• Brattvær Church, Smøla , 1885, together with Nissen
• From 1887 various dragon-style buildings on the Holmenkollen, including the Holmenkollen Tourist Hotel, 1889 (burned down in 1895, later rebuilt), Christiania, Holmenkollveien 200
• Dragon-style restaurant on St. Hanshaugen, Christiania, 1891 (burned down in 1936)
• Frognerseteren Restaurant, 1890/91, Christiania
• Imperial hunting lodge in Rominten (today Krasnolessje), 1891
• Kongsnæs sailor station , Potsdam, 1891–1895
• Stave church "Hubertuskapelle", Rominten, 1893
• Oslo Lysverkers Dampcentral , factory building in Christiania, Rosenkrantz 'gate 14, 1892
• Villa Jarlsborg, Christiania, Montebelloveien 4, in the 1890s
• Kornhaug Sanatorium in Follebu , 1891
• Holiday homes in Frogn
• House for Prime Minister Christian Schweigaard, Biri (now part of Gjøvik ), 1893
• Ullevålsveien skole, Christiana, Bolteløkka Allé 10 (expanded by Bredo Berntsen in 1911/13)
• Bolteløkka skole, Christiania, Eugenies gate, 1898
• Lilleborg skole, Christiania, Torshovgata, 1898

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  Church in Vestby

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  Brattvær Church, Smøla

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  Frognerseteren restaurant, Oslo

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  Reception hall, Kongsnæs sailor station, Potsdam (original destroyed)

literature

• KV Hammer: Munthe, 4. Holm M. In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 1361 (Swedish, runeberg.org - collective article).
• It. Bull: Munthe, 2) Holm M. In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 17 : Mielck – Nordland . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1924, p. 422 (Danish, runeberg.org - in the article by father Adolf Fredrik Munthe).
• Munte, Holm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 277 .
• Ole Petter Bjerkek: Holm Munthe. In: Store Norske Leksikon. (Norwegian, snl.no ).

Web links

Commons : Holm Hansen Munthe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography Holm Hansen Munthe (Norwegian, artemisia.no ), accessed on May 24, 2011.
2. ^ City Archives Oslo Municipality: Monumentale skolebygg. (Norwegian, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: byarkivet.oslo.kommune.no )), accessed on May 24, 2011.
3. ^ Jörg Limberg: Kongsnæs - The former Imperial Sailor Station. In: Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum: Brandenburg State Preservation of Monuments. Volume 12, Issue 1, Berlin 2003, p. 41.