Johann Matthias Hansen

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Johann Matthias Hansen (born April 10, 1781 in Copenhagen ; † August 29, 1850 in Altona ) was an architect who worked primarily in Altona and Hamburg .

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Johann Matthias Hansen was a son of Claus Hansen (baptized on August 6, 1736 in Copenhagen; † January 23, 1801 there) and his wife Sara, née Gudover (also Goudoever or Goedouer , * 1750; † February 21, 1802 in Copenhagen) . The maternal grandfather named Isach Johan Goudoever worked as a silk moth. A younger brother of his father was the architect Christian Frederik Hansen .

Hansen learned the profession of architect at the Copenhagen Art Academy . His uncle probably made it possible for him to attend the academy. In 1797 he was promoted to the 2nd construction class. In the annual competitions he received a small silver medal in 1801. In the year his father died, he moved to Altona and worked for his uncle, who went to Copenhagen in 1804. Hansen, who was called "the young Hansen" at the time, continued his uncle's private construction company and closed the jobs that were still open.

In 1807 Christian Frederik Hansen helped his nephew to get a job with the centralized building administration of the entire state , which looked after local building projects in Jutland . Because of the outbreak of war ( bombardment of Copenhagen (1807) ) he lost the job that same year. Instead he worked as a freelance architect in Altona. From 1829 to 1831 he had a partnership with the younger Ole Jörgen Schmidt , who had learned from Christian Frederik Hansen. The collaboration obviously ended in a dispute.

From 1837 to 1841 Hansen worked as a provisional city architect. In addition, he was director of the Sunday School for some time . Hansen, who remained unmarried, lived in Othmarschen at the end of his life . Here he had owned a country house since 1833, which he had bought from his friend AF Gebauer. This rotunda was built in 1806 based on the plans of his uncle Christian Frederik Hansen.

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Most of the buildings planned by Hansen no longer exist or have been rebuilt. Hansen was clearly influenced by his uncle's classicism and did not develop a visible signature of his own. In addition, art historians did not analyze his works further.

As the first building, Hansen participated in the St. Mary's Church in Quickborn . The plans for this came from his uncle, Hansen himself took over the construction management. Around 1810 he took over the renovation of the chapel of Breitenburg Castle in the Gothic style. In 1820 he rebuilt a crescent-shaped stable building for Landhaus Thornton, based on the original floor plan. The original building was based on his uncle's plans and was burned down. Hansen redesigned the shapes of the new building.

Katharinenhof, Baurs Park

In 1824/25 ten tenement houses were built at Palmaille 53-71 according to Hansen's plans, three of them as semi-detached houses. The order for this came from Georg Friedrich Baur , who wanted to design the edge development of the street in a classicist style. Hansen's buildings thus complemented the houses that his uncle had previously built on the other side of the street. From 1829 to 1836, together with Ole Jörgen Schmidt, he designed the Katharinenhof country house in Blankenese for Baur , and an associated stable building in 1839. Shortly after 1815 he had created a round temple in the surrounding park.

In 1836 a pharmacy was built on the Blankeneser Elbchaussee according to Hansen's plans . During this time he was commissioned by Conrad Hinrich Donner , who was in competition with Baur, to build a mansion in Bredeneek . During this time Hansen wrote to Herman Wilhelm Bissen and discussed with him about a sculpture for Georg Friedrich Baur's house in Blankenese. Then he received the order for the manor house in the spring of 1838. The later three-winged property kept Hansen's building as the right side wing.

After the Hamburg fire in 1848, Hansen designed numerous houses, especially on Neuer Wall . Overall, he did not create original buildings, but in doing so he clearly met his customers' requirements for representative residential buildings.

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SURNAME Hansen, Johann Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1850
Place of death Altona