Johann Andreas Liebhardt

Johann Andreas Liebhardt (baptized October 10, 1713 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 19, 1788 there ) was a German builder .

life and work

Design by Andreas Liebhardt for the new Paulskirche, 1786

The Comoedienhaus was Frankfurt's city theater from 1782 to 1902

Liebhardt was the son of a carpenter . After studying architecture in France, England, the Netherlands, Italy and Hungary, he became a city ​​architect in Frankfurt am Main in 1759 . During his tenure, he created numerous important public buildings, including the Behaghel house in Große Gallusgasse (1746), the so-called Red House on the Zeil (1767), the fountain on the Liebfrauenberg (1770), the Comoedienhaus (1782) on today's Rathenauplatz and the Johanniskirche in Bornheim (1778–1781).

In 1785 he retired. His successor was Johann Georg Christian Hess .

Liebhardt's last major work was the design for the new Paulskirche (1786). It was initially not accepted because the monumental hall church in the then new classical style still met with public opposition. The council instructed Nicolas de Pigage and Johann Georg Christian Hess to revise the plans. However, Hess, a pioneer of classicism in Frankfurt, succeeded in getting the revised design accepted and Liebhardt entrusted with the construction management. Liebhardt died a few months after construction began. After long delays during the Napoleonic Wars , the Paulskirche was not completed until 1833 by Johann Friedrich Christian Hess , the son and successor of Johann Georg Christian Hess.

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .