Johann Caspar Borchmann
Johann Caspar Borchmann (also: Johann Kaspar Borgmann , * before 1669 probably in Berlin ; † November 9, 1736 in Celle ) was a German court architect and ducal chief land builder .
Life
Johann Caspar Borchmann completed an apprenticeship in Berlin, where he also completed his first professional years. In the year his son Johann Friedrich Borchmann was born, he worked - as the successor to Johann Friedrich de Münter - as court architect in Celle from 1696 to 1724, interrupted by study trips from 1696 to 1697 to Dresden and from 1699 to 1700 to Paris .
As court architect, Borchmann was in charge of the buildings in the Duchy of Lüneburg , and from 1703 also for the Duchy of Lauenburg . Of his numerous buildings, including numerous mansions in rural areas, Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff's castle in Gartow is considered to be his main work.
Well-known works (selection)
Library of the Berlin Architects' Association
- from 1700: Gartow Castle
- before 1711: Preliminary draft for the construction of the Catholic Church of St. Clemens in Calenberger Neustadt
- 1713 to 1719/21, together with Brand Westermann and Johann Christian Böhm : Execution and probably also the plan for the State Archives , also the last state building before King George I moved to Great Britain
- from 1721, together with "Klosterbaumeister Wolters": Extension of the two-storey "Abbess Wing" in the east of the convent building of Marienwerder Abbey
- until 1729: Celle prison
Borchmann also designed numerous rural mansions.
literature
- Thieme-Becker , Vol. 4, p. 340
- General Artists Dictionary, Vol. 12, pp. 673f.
- Eduard Schuster: Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636–1727 , Hanover 1905, p. 198
- Monika Ryll: The building activities of the lords, barons and counts von Bernstorff and their master builder Johann Caspar Borchmann , dissertation in 1988 at the University of Marburg, Marburg, 1988
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bremen, Lower Saxony , edit. by Gerd Weiß with the assistance of K. Eichwalder, P. Hahn, H.-Chr. Hoffmann, R. Karrenbrock and Roswitha Pape, Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1992, pp. 604, 928, etc.
- Hermann Mewes: The Lutheran church building in Lower Saxony, with special consideration of the master builders of the Hanover consistory , ed. and with an afterword by Stefan Amt, Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the University of Hanover, at the same time dissertation 1943 at the Technical University of Hanover, Vol. 7 in the series of writings of the Institute for the History of Construction and Art at the Technical University of Hanover , 1994, ISBN 3-931585-04-2 , p. 163 and others
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Borchmann, Johann Caspar. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , passim
- Helmut Knocke: BORCHMANN, Johann Caspar. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 65; online through google books
- Helmut Knocke: Borchmann, Johann Caspar. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 75.
Web links
- Holdings of Johann Caspar Borchmann in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Knocke: BORCHMANN, ... (see literature)
- ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ a b c d Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Borchmann, ... (see literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borchmann, Johann Caspar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borchmann, Johann Kaspar; Borgmann, Johann Kaspar; Borgmann, Johann Kaspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court architect in the Duchy of Lüneburg and Lauenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1669 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1736 |
| Place of death | Celle |