Johann Friedrich Blank

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Johann Friedrich Blank ( Russian Иоганн Фридрих (Иван Яковлевич) Бланк ; * 1708 in Olonez ; † 10 February July / 21 February  1745 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian architect of German descent.

Life

Blank came from a French Huguenot family who had fled to Germany . Blank's father Jakob Blank worked as a blacksmith in the Olonez ironworks together with other Saxon masters who had been recruited by Peter I. The nine-year-old Blank was sent to St. Petersburg to study with the German architect Georg Johann Mattarnovi , with whom he also lived and served as a translator. After Mattarnovi's death, he worked as a translator for the German architect Nicolaus Friedrich Härbel . Then he studied architecture with Mikhail Grigoryevich Semtsov and became his assistant in 1727. In 1728 he had his son Karl . Blank helped Semzow in the planning and construction of the Simeon and Anna Church (1731-1734) and the Church of the Birth of Mary on Nevsky Prospect (1733-1737, not preserved). In 1738, Blank was appointed architect.

Blank's first independent work was the renovation of the St. Petersburg Menshikov Palace in 1732 so that it could be used for the First Cadet Corps . Blank built the Trinity Church (1733) in Krasnoye Selo , the Snamenije Church (1737–1747) in Tsarskoye Selo , the elephant court (1744) on Nevsky Prospect for the elephants given by Nadir Shah and Khan Samas Kuli and the menagerie in Ekaterinhof in the southwest of St. Petersburg. In Peterhof he created the chessboard cascade and the Roman fountains (1739).

Blank was a friend of the architect Pyotr Mikhailovich Jeropkin . When, after the death of Anna Empress Jeropkin was executed in 1740, Blank was created using the whip whipped and with his family in the eternal banishment to Siberia sent. Blank's wife died on the way into exile. Soon after the exiles arrived in Tobolsk , Elizabeth came to power and the Blank family was allowed to return to Moscow . Blank's son Karl met Alexander Filippowitsch Kokorinov, who was of the same age in Tobolsk , and who was traveling to Moscow with the Blank family. After returning, Blank worked in the Moscow police administration.

Works

  • Simeon and Anna Church, St. Petersburg

  • Trinity Church, Krasnoye Selo

  • Znameneye Church, Tsarskoye Selo

  • Checkerboard Cascade, Peterhof

  • Roman fountains, Peterhof

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Бланк Иван Яковлевич (accessed November 24, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b А. Ф. Крашенинников: К. БЛАНК (accessed November 24, 2017).
  3. ↑ Чеснокова А. Н .: Парадный въезд в новую страницу . In: Невский проспект . 1985.
  4. ↑ Слоновые дворы (accessed November 24, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Blank, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бланк, Иван Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian architect of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Olonez
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1745
Place of death Moscow