Johann Heinrich Wolff

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Johann (Jean) Heinrich Wolff (born August 21, 1792 in Kassel ; † November 25, 1869 there ) was a German stonemason , architect and architectural writer.

Life

Johann Heinrich Wolff began studying at the University of Göttingen . In 1811 he became a member of the Corps Hassia Göttingen. Later, around 1813, he studied at the Paris Ecole d'Architecture . Returning to Kassel, he worked as a stonemason and completed his architectural studies at the art academy with Johann Conrad Bromeis . In 1819 he became assistant to Heinrich Christoph Jussow . When Bromeis became court architect of Elector Wilhelm II in 1821 , he took over his teaching activities. In 1826 he founded a private architecture school.

In 1832 Wolff became a professor of architecture at the Kassel Art Academy . In 1864 Wolff retired. He represented the validity of Greek architecture and was in contrast to Heinrich Hübsch , one of whose sharpest critics he was. Georg Gottlob Ungewitter was one of his students . He was in close contact with Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves .

Johann Heinrich Wolff, married to Ida Spohr, wrote the preface to the autobiography of his father-in-law Louis Spohr in 1860 . Wolff's son was the writer Louis Wolff .

Architectural work

  • Design for a circular Volksgarten, 1813
  • Participation in the renovation of the Fridericianum
  • Design of the residential palace in Kassel, 1824/1825
  • Design and construction of five tenement houses in the Wolfsschlucht, Kassel, 1838
  • Music room of his father-in-law Louis Spohr

Fonts

  • About plan and method in the study of architecture , 1831.
  • Contributions to the aesthetics of architecture or the basic laws of plastic form, demonstrated in the main parts of Greek architecture , 1834.
  • One principle and no parties! In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung , 11, 1846, 358–367.
  • The most essential basis of monumental architecture , 1857.

literature

  • Silke Walther: "In which style should we build?" - Studies on the writings and buildings of the architect Heinrich Hübsch (1795–1863) , 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Heinrich Wolff on www.bildindex.de
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 73 , 2
  3. ↑ Georg Gottlob Ungewitter (1820 - 1866)
  4. ↑ Folker Göthel: Foreword in the new edition of Louis Spohr's autobiography, 1963 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ GS 15179 of the graphic collection of the Staatliche Museen Kassel
  6. ^ The Museum Fridericianum in Kassel ( Memento from November 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ GS 15156 of Prints and Drawings of the National Museums of Kassel
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stonemason, architect and architectural writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1869
Place of death kassel