Johann Friedrich Grael

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Johann Friedrich Grael , also Grahl, Greel (born January 9, 1707 in Quilitz, today Neuhardenberg , † September 27, 1740 in Bayreuth ) was a German builder of the Baroque era .

Life

Tower of the Sophienkirche in Berlin-Mitte

Grael was born as the son of the court gardener of Margrave Philipp von Brandenburg-Schwedt in what is now Neuhardenberg. He was instructed in architecture by the Berlin court and palace builder Martin Heinrich Böhme (1676–1725) and, at the age of eighteen, in 1725, was appointed to succeed his deceased teacher as court architect. Since the thrifty soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I's only architectural ambitions were high church towers, he sent the young Grael to study tall towers in Strasbourg in 1730 and in 1731 to Halberstadt , Dresden and Frankfurt am Main . Grael's main works were the towers of the Heiliggeistkirche in Potsdam , the Sophienkirche and the Petrikirche in Berlin . Grael developed the design for the Petrikirchtower, but it collapsed on August 28, 1734 under the supervision of Philipp Gerlach . A commission of inquiry appointed confirmed the correctness of Grael's draft, but in January 1735 he was imprisoned for a few days in Potsdam and then expelled from the country. After a temporary stay in Schwedt at the court of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, he entered the service of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth as building director of Bayreuth on February 13, 1736 , although he was only 33 years old a few years later died as a result of dropsy .

Works

  • Drafts and construction management for the tower of the Petrikirche in Berlin (1727–1731), collapsed in 1734, church damaged in World War II and destroyed in the GDR in 1964
  • Draft for the fountain on the Roßmarkt in Stettin (1730)
  • Interiors in the Berlin City Palace (1732), destroyed in World War II
  • Tower of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Potsdam (1732–34), destroyed in the Second World War
  • Tower of the Sophienkirche in Berlin (1732–34), preserved
  • Schwedt riding and drill hall (draft 1731, site management 1735–36)
  • Reconstruction of the old palace of the Bayreuth Hermitage (1736)
  • Design for the Kaiserhammer hunting lodge (1739)
  • Palais Kameke (later Palais Redern ), Unter den Linden
    Private buildings in Berlin (none of them preserved):

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SURNAME Grael, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Quilitz, today Neuhardenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1740
Place of death Bayreuth