Johann Michael Knapp

Johann Michael Knapp (born March 10, 1791 in Stuttgart , † October 22, 1861 ibid) was the Württemberg court architect in Stuttgart.

Life

His father Johann Michael Knapp came from Ditzingen and was master baker in Stuttgart, his mother Elisabetha Margaretha Bauder came from Waiblingen . 1808/09 he attended the polytechnic school in Karlsruhe . From 1815 Knapp was allowed to study art with Johann Heinrich Dannecker in Stuttgart. He spent his apprenticeship in Milan (1818) and Rome (1819-1840). In Rome he was a member of the Ponte Molle Society . In 1840 he became a member of the Congregatio dei Virtuosi al Pantheon .

In 1820 he drew construction plans for the burial chapel on the Württemberg hill for Queen Katharina with Giovanni Salucci .

A trip to Naples also brought him to Pompeii in 1820/21 . From 1829 to 1832 he worked on the research and illustration of Etruscan and early Hellenistic monuments in Sicily and Italy.

In 1837 he married Josephine Sofie Haag; the marriage was divorced in 1849. In 1840 he was appointed court architect in Württemberg.

Works

Casa Tarpeia, Rome

Knapp's design for the anniversary column

In 1833 he built a house on the corner of Via del Corso and Via Convertite in Rome
In 1835 he built the Casa Tarpea on the Capitol in Rome as the seat of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica .
In 1841 he drew the first drafts for the planned anniversary column for the 25th anniversary of King Wilhelm I's reign on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz . In the same year, a provisional wooden pillar was built on the occasion of the Württemberger pageant . Knapp's most famous plant in Stuttgart was built in honor of King Wilhelm I until 1846; It was crowned in 1863 by the five meter high bronze figure of Konkordia, the ancient Roman goddess of harmony.
The end of the Schloßplatz to the north along the Königstraße is the late Classicist Königsbau , built between 1855 and 1859 by the court architects Johann Michael Knapp and Christian Friedrich von Leins .
He was also involved in the design of the park areas of the palace square and various city gates.

Fonts

with Johann Gottfried Gutensohn : Monuments of the Christian religion or collection of the Christian churches in Rome. Rome 1822-27. Also: The basilicas of Christian Rome. With 50 copper plates. Munich 1843.

literature

Barbara Wohlgemuth: Knapp, Johann Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 155 f. ( Digitized version ).
Gotthard Reinhold: Johann Michael Knapp (1791–1861). A study of the life, work and estate of the Stuttgart court architect. Backnang 1994

Individual evidence

↑ Eberhard Fritz: Mr. and Mrs. Hofbaumeister. Comments on the fate of the married couple Johann Michael and Sophia Knapp . In: Backnanger Jahrbuch 1996, pp. 47–50.

personal data
SURNAME	Knapp, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1861
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Eberhard Fritz: Mr. and Mrs. Hofbaumeister. Comments on the fate of the married couple Johann Michael and Sophia Knapp . In: Backnanger Jahrbuch 1996, pp. 47–50.