Iwan Iwanowitsch Rerberg

Iwan Rerberg, 1900s

Ivan Rerberg ( Russian Иван Иванович Рерберг ; born September 22, ^jul. / 4. October 1869 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 15. October 1932 ibid) was a Russian architect and engineer who in the 20th century, beginning a number of known structures in Moscow created.

Life

Rerberg was born in Moscow as the son of the railway engineer Ivan Fyodorowitsch Rerberg. The latter was one of the descendants of a Danish shipbuilder who was brought to Russia by him during the reign of Peter the Great .

Iwan Rerberg graduated from a military school and then studied until 1896 in Saint Petersburg at the Academy of Military Engineering . After completing his engineering degree, Rerberg first went to Kharkiv , where he was involved in building the railway wagon factory (today's Malyshev factory ). He learned the methods of modern architecture, which allowed him to work from 1897 to 1912 as one of the helpers of the architect Roman Klein in the construction of the Moscow Pushkin Art Museum . Among other things, Rerberg designed the heating and ventilation system for the museum building, which proved to be very efficient.

Even before the Pushkin Museum was completed, Iwan Rerberg collaborated with Klein on several other projects, including the reconstruction work on the Manege in 1904 and the construction of the Muir & Mirrielees department store (today's TsUM , right across from the Bolshoi Theater building from 1907 to 1908) located). Around the same time, Rerberg began to design individual structures independently. In addition to several residential and industrial buildings, the former insurance company Nord (1909–1911) building in the center of Moscow on Ilyinka Street is one of Rerberg's most famous early works. The neoclassical , five-storey building is now the seat of the Russian Constitutional Court .

A characteristic of many of the buildings designed by Rerberg is not only their affiliation with later classicism , which was still widespread in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but also the use of building technologies and materials that were new for the time, including reinforced concrete . In 1911, the trade journal Architekturnaja Moskwa named Rerberg a “relatively young but very popular master builder” and praised his ability to skillfully use new building materials with regard to their architectural design potential.

From 1906 to 1919 Rerberg was a lecturer at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and at the Moscow School of Engineering . During this time he also worked on the design of what is probably his best-known building project: the building complex of the Kiev train station in the west of the city. Construction work on the new railway station, a railway terminus starting point of a major railway linking Moscow to the Ukraine represents and Southeastern Europe, lasted from 1914 to 1917. This also attributable to the neoclassical station building was designed by Rerberg while simultaneously built arched glass roof of the station hall a work of the well-known engineer Vladimir Schuchow is.

After the resurgence of construction activity in Moscow after the end of the Russian Civil War , Rerberg worked in the 1920s on several other large-scale projects in Moscow, which had become the capital of the newly established Soviet Union . Among Rerberg's late works, one should mention above all the building of the Central Telegraph on Tverskaya Street , which was architecturally new for Russia at the time , and which, with its façades dominated by reinforced concrete and glass, can no longer be assigned to neoclassicism, but to so-called constructivism . In 1930 Rerberg designed a new building for the First Military School of the Red Army on the site of the Moscow Kremlin , now known as the Moscow Kremlin's administrative building or Building 14 . Stylistically, this building was again approximated to classicism with individual allusions to the neighboring Senate Palace , which, however, seems rather inappropriate in the predominantly early modern ensemble of the Kremlin. The building was completed in 1934, after Rerberg's death.

Former house (built 1907–1909)
The former building of the insurance company Nord
Entrance building of the Kiev train station
Building 14 in the Kremlin

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personal data
SURNAME	Rerberg, Iwan Iwanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Иван Иванович Рерберг
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1932
Place of death	Moscow