Johann Adolph Richter

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Johann Adolph Richter (* 1682 in Weimar ; † June 30, 1768 there ) was a German architect .

Life

As the son of the architect Johann Moritz Richter, Richter came from a Thuringian family of builders and artists.

He was involved in the construction of the Weimar Belvedere Palace . In addition to his involvement in the construction of the palace together with Gottfried Heinrich Krohne , his designs for the Belvedere garden, which were characteristic of him in the Baroque era, should be mentioned. He presumably had planned the gardens. In addition, the designs for the cavalier houses on Belvedere as well as those for the orangery (together with Krohne) were probably made by him. In addition to the palace buildings, Richter also supplied designs for churches such as a. for the church of St. Georg von Großneuhausen . The interior of the church of St. Peter and Paul in Oberweimar was redesigned in Baroque style by Richter in 1733 and the mansard roof was built, as can still be seen today.

Johann Adolph Richter was an Oberland master builder in Saxony-Weimar. He is also the builder of the Jakobskirche in Weimar. Furthermore, in his capacity as a master builder or master builder, he worked on the construction of the palace complexes in Dornburg and Ettersburg . Richter erected the old shooting house garden in the park on the Ilm in 1733 , which was demolished in 1756 and converted into an artificial ruin. The dismissal of Richter as master builder had been carried out by Krohne, who intrigued against him and finally got into this office himself.

The assignment of the guard set up in 1715 on the Neumarkt in Dresden to Richter's work was mistaken. Instead, the design is probably attributed to Johann Rudolph Fäsch .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert-Dieter Ulferts u. a .: Belvedere Palace: Palace, Park and Collection. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich-Berlin-Weimar 1998, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Ibid. P. 25.
  3. ↑ Sibylle Hoiman: The Orangery in Belvedere at Weimar - nature and architecture in the context of court representation 1728-1928. Dissertation, TU Berlin 2015. This dissertation contains numerous interesting details, including biographical details, on Richter and Krohne, who were increasingly competing with one another. At Hoiman p. 49 f. about Richter can be found that he studied in Jena in 1703, since 1715 studies in Italy, France and Holland, then initially worked as an architect in Dresden for a few years. Probably around 1719 he entered the Saxon-Weimar service under Duke Ernst August , who commissioned him to plan the construction of a hunting lodge in Thuringian Munich in 1719 .
  4. ↑ https://kirche.grossneuhausen.de/ein-auszug
  5. ↑ https://www.denkmalschutz.de/denkmal/Dorfkirche-St-Georg.html
  6. ↑ http://www.kirche-oberweimar.de/81_oberweimar.html
  7. ↑ Art. Richter 3. Johann Adolf : in: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (ed.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history . Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 367.
  8. ↑ Art. Richter 3. Johann Adolf : in: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (ed.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history . Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 367.
  9. ↑ https://www.stadtwikidd.de/wiki/Johann_Adolph_Richter here reference is made to Fritz Löffler , Das alte Dresden , Dresden 1956, p. 99, where this information can also be found.
  10. ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner mentions a Johann Adolf Richter as a member of a Thuringian family of architects who set up the guard on Dresden's Neumarkt and who he thinks is probably identical with it. Nikolaus Pevsner: Leipzig Baroque. The architecture of the baroque period in Leipzig , Dresden 1928 (reprint 1990), p. 186.
  11. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz14107.html
  12. ↑ https://www.graphikportal.org/document/gpo00112888
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Johann Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1768
Place of death Weimar