Johann Gottlieb Schlaetzer

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Johann Carl Gottlieb Schlaetzer (born February 17, 1771 in Berlin ; † May 18, 1824 there ) was a German architect . In some sources, Gottlob is given as a first name instead of Gottlieb and his surname is also known in the variants Schlätzer , Schlaezer and Schlötzer .

Life

After receiving a solid education, Johann Gottlieb Schlaetzer studied from 1785 at the Architectural School of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , where he was one of Friedrich Becherer's students . As early as 1787, the Oberhof construction department employed him as a conductor .

Since the foundation of the Berlin Bauakademie in 1799 he worked as a teacher there, from 1804 with the title of professor. He stayed in this position until 1818. From 1815 he worked on the government building commission. In 1816 he became a member of the Academy of Arts and in 1818 received the title of Royal Building Councilor.

Grave of Johann Gottlieb Schlaetzer in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Schlaetzer worked closely with Karl Friedrich Schinkel and took over construction management at the Neue Wache after his predecessor Johann Georg Moser died shortly before the building was completed in March 1818. He was also responsible for the construction management between 1817 and 1821 when the second Berlin Cathedral was redesigned according to Schinkel's plans. However, a critical opinion by Schinkel contributed to the fact that the design submitted by Schlaetzer in 1820 for the Friedrichswerder Church was not implemented and was ultimately built according to Schinkel's own plans.

Johann Gottlieb Schlaetzer died in Berlin in 1824 at the age of 53. His final resting place, a wall grave made of sandstone with neo-Gothic lancet panels, is one of the oldest preserved graves on the Trinity Cemetery I in Berlin-Kreuzberg . It is not known who designed the hereditary funeral.

Schlaetzer's adopted daughter Pauline Marie Schön married the architect and painter Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse , who had worked under him on the building commission until Schlaetzer's death.

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Portal of the Bülow Canal in Rüdersdorf

In 1816, Schlaetzer created the lavish limestone portal of the Bülow Canal, based on revolutionary architecture, with pylons and lion heads for the Berlin iron foundry in Rüdersdorf- Kalkberge near Berlin (today Rüdersdorf Museum Park ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Schöps, Toralf Burkert: The Friedrichswerder Church and its builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In: Wolfram Jaeger (Hrsg.): Masonry calendar 2016. Building materials, renovation, Eurocode practice . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2016, pp. 116–125, here p. 117.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 227.Schetzer, Johann Gottlieb . In: Debora Paffen, Hans-Jürgen Mende: The cemeteries in front of the Hallesches Tor. A cemetery guide . Part 1. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-132-4 , p. 52.
  3. ↑ An ingenious and arguable architectural talent. Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse's tomb . On the website "Save Berlin Tombs" of the Berlin State Monuments Office (accessed on April 5, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Schlaetzer, Johann Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlaetzer, Johann Carl Gottlieb (full name); Schlaetzer, Johann Gottlob; Schlätzer, Johann Gottlob; Schlötzer, Johann Gottlob; Schlaezer, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1771
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1824