Johann Jakob Schumacher

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Johann Jakob Schumacher ( Russian Иоганн Якоб Шумахер * 1701 in Colmar , † 1767 in St. Petersburg ) was an Alsatian - Russian architect of the Baroque .

Life

Schumacher traveled in 1720 to St. Petersburg, where his older brother Johann Daniel as a librarian for Peter I worked. First he studied architecture with Nicolaus Friedrich Härbel and Gaetano Chiaveri .

Arsenal of the Moscow Kremlin
Bell tower of the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad

In 1730 Schumacher moved to Burkhard Christoph von Münnich and was employed in the main office for artillery and fortification (until 1747). Immediately took over Schumacher the completion of the Nevsky Prospect since 1728 built according to plans by Miinnich Lutheran Peter and Paul Church , the first and most important church of dissenters in St. Petersburg, the 1833 by the St. Peter's Church of Alexander Pavlovich Bryullov replaced has been. He built a triumphal gate for Anna's coronation in 1730 . On behalf of Münnichs he built the arsenal of the Moscow Kremlin from 1731 to 1736 , which had been started by Christof Konrad . From 1733 to 1738 Schumacher built the stone building for the foundry on the southern bank of the Neva near the Fontanka . From 1740 to 1747 he converted the first Neva shipyard , the Partikular-Werft, on the Fontanka River opposite the summer garden for a project by Ivan Kuzmich Korobov . Schumacher developed the first project to build the bell tower of the Trinity Monastery of Sergijew Possad in 1740, based on the mint tower by Andreas Schlueter . Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin enlarged the bell tower from three to five floors, and Dmitri Vasilyevich Uchtomski completed it. For the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences he developed a building complex, which also included the laboratory for Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonossow (not preserved). Schumacher's best-known student was Georg Friedrich Veldten , with whom he built the pavilion for the Gottorf giant globe (not preserved).

In 1754 Schumacher was dismissed for incapacity. From 1757 to 1759, after relieving Burkhard, he completed the arena of the First Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Кириков Б. М., Штиглиц М. С .: Петербург немецких архитекторов . Издательство Чистый лист, St. Petersburg 2002, ISBN 5-901528-04-2 .
  2. ↑ a b Sweden's Premier Museum of Art and Design: Johann Jacob Schumacher (accessed November 29, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шумахер, Иоганн Якоб (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian-Russian Baroque architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH 1767
Place of death St. Petersburg