Johann Conrad Bromeis (architect)

Grave of Johann Bromeis in the main cemetery in Kassel

Johann Conrad Bromeis (* 21st September 1788 in Kassel , † 19 June 1855 ) was a German architect of classicism and chief architect of the Elector Wilhelm II. Of Hesse-Kassel .

Life

Bromeis came from a petty bourgeois background, but was noticed early on by his talent for drawing, so that he was trained by Heinrich Christoph Jussow after attending a high school at the Kassel Academy of Fine Arts .

After completing his studies, he was appointed building inspector for the buildings in Wilhelmshöhe near Kassel in 1810 . During this time, in the time of the French occupation of Hesse-Kassel as part of the kingdom of Westphalia was, he learned by the French architect Auguste Grandjean de Montigny , the "premier architecte" the Westphalian King Jerome Bonaparte , the Empire style know.

After the restoration of Kurhessen , Bromeis worked as a teacher for architecture at the Kassel Academy of Arts from 1814 to 1821 , and in 1821 he became the court architect of Elector Wilhelm II. From 1816 to 1826 he converted and converted the White Palace in Kassel for him expanded it to include the Palais Reichenbach on Obere Königsstraße and the Red Palace on Friedrichsplatz . The colorful interior of this residential complex was one of the most important works of the Empire style in Germany.

In 1825 Bromeis became director of the architecture department of the Kassel Academy of the Arts.

In 1830 his professional career reached its climax with the position of senior building director and head of the entire building industry in Hessen-Kassel. However, court and state construction in the electorate were separated from each other in 1831 and Bromeis was then only responsible for state construction. In 1835 he was one of the co-founders of the Kunstverein für Kurhessen .

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  Architectural drawing of the Red Palace in Kassel

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  Dance hall in the Red Palace

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  Preserved portico of the Red Palace

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  The war school, the former court administration building , in Kassel around 1903

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  Large greenhouse Wilhelmshöhe

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  Beberbeck Castle

After the death of Elector Wilhelm II, the building management was dissolved in 1849 and instead a building commission was formed, chaired by Bromeis. In 1853 he was retired.

Works (selection)

• 1816–1821 Reconstruction and expansion of the Weißes Palais , Kassel (burned out in 1943, ruins blown up in 1948)
• 1817–1818 Interior fittings in the Fulda City Palace
• 1821–1826 Rotes Palais, Kassel (burned out in 1941, outer walls demolished in 1954, portico reconstructed)
• 1822 Conversion of Palais Gohr to Palais Reichenbach , Kassel (burned down in 1941, stairwell and side wing demolished in 2006)
• 1822 Staircase and interior fittings in Schlösschen Schönburg near Hofgeismar
• 1822 Reconstruction of Wilhelmshöhe Palace (increase in the connecting wing, interior fittings only preserved in the Weißenstein wing and in the adjacent connecting wing)
• 1822–1823 Large greenhouse in Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (early steel and glass construction)
• 1824–1826 Wilhelmshöhe guard building
• 1825 Interior fittings of the Fasanerie Castle (Eichenzell)
• 1827–1831 Beberbeck Castle (Princely House, Officer's House, Outbuilding)
• 1828 Reconstruction of the Ballhaus , Wilhelmshöhe

literature

• Rolf Bidlingmaier (arrangement): Johann Conrad Bromeis, 1788–1855; an architect from the Electorate of Hesse. Exhibition catalog of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Kassel 1988.
• Rolf Bidlingmaier: The Residenz Palace in Kassel. Edited by Friedl Brunckhorst (Studies on Cultural Heritage in Hessen 1), Regensburg 2000.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Conrad Bromeis  in the German Digital Library

Commons : Johann Conrad Bromeis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 325 architectural drawings by Bromeis in the graphic collection of the museum landscape Hessen Kassel
• Residenz Palace in Kassel
• Palais Reichenbach, demolition
• Bromeis, Johann Conrad. Hessian biography. (As of March 26, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).