Josef Schmitz (architect)

Josef Schmitz (also Joseph ; born November 8, 1860 in Aachen , † March 29, 1936 in Nuremberg ) was a German architect .

Life

The son of the Aachen court painter , draftsman and graphic artist Michael Hubert Schmitz was a pupil of Georg von Hauberrisser and from 1887 he carried out the restoration of the Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg with him. Schmitz also worked for a while with the well-known church builder Franz Josef Denzinger and after his death in 1894 took over the management of the construction of the Adalberokirche in Würzburg - a prestigious building that was finally shown at the World Exhibition in Paris . Numerous church building projects followed, especially in the Franconian region . Josef Schmitz became Bavarian state master builder and expert advisor to the highest building authority and was entrusted with the restoration of the Nuremberg main churches St. Lorenz and St. Sebald.

He brought the strong engagement with medieval architecture into his restorations, which tried to restore the original condition of the buildings. In the Moritzkapelle in Nuremberg, for example, he dismantled all of Carl Alexander Heideloff's romanticizing changes . In his new buildings, he opposed the romantic transfiguration of the buildings of the Middle Ages with his conception of Gothic style, a scientifically based reception of the old styles. In the historicist church building "he represented the direction of the finely felt and well thought-out style buildings" . Schmitz was a representative of the so-called Nuremberg style and placed great value on the sculptural design of his buildings as an architectural total work of art. Heinz Schiestl created the interiors in many of his buildings .

Schmitz was from 1918 to 1936 a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , in the section for fine arts.

Works

Parish Church of the Conception of Mary, Innsbruck-Pradl

St. Antonius, Nuremberg-Gostenhof

• St. Adalbero , Würzburg, neo-Romanesque, 1894–1899
• Motherhouse Church of the Redeemer Sisters, Würzburg, neo-Gothic, 1895–1897
• Extension of the Nuremberg town hall on Fünferplatz, with Hans Pylipp, 1896–1899
• Extension of St. Cyriakus, Niedernberg , neo-Gothic, 1897
• St. Nikolaus, Wörth am Main , neo-Romanesque, 1897/98
• St. Johannes Baptist and St. Margareta, Grünmorsbach , neo-Romanesque, 1898/99
• St. Peter, Nuremberg, neo-Gothic, 1898–1901
• St. Vitus, Dorfprozelten , neo-Romanesque, 1899–1901
• Hohenhabsburg observation tower, Reichenbach in Bohemia , together with Jakob Schmeissner , 1900–1901
• Extension of the parish church Gerolzhofen , neo-Gothic, 1899–1902
• St. Josef, Würzburg , neo-Gothic, 1900–1905
• St. Josef, Königshütte , neo-Romanesque, 1904–1907
• Our Lady of the Conception , Innsbruck- Pradl , neo-Romanesque, 1905–1908
• Municipal cemetery in Merano , 1907/12, executed by Musch & Lun
• St. Antonius, Nuremberg, neo-Romanesque, 1909/10
• St. Anna, Mönchengladbach - Windberg , neo-Romanesque, 1909–1911
• Restoration of St. Johannes Kitzingen

Web links

Commons : Josef Schmitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See reading sample benchmarks (PDF; 1.4 MB)
2. ↑ See www.stadtarchiv.nuernberg.de
3. ↑ See www.wuerzburg-fotos.de ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ See Moritzkapelle (petraschuster.de)
5. ↑ The Christian Art , Volume 32, Munich 1935
6. ↑ See nordbayern.de
7. ↑ See www.adk.de
8. ↑ See dorfprozelten.de ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Cf. Liberecká výšina. on liberec-reichenberg.net
10. ^ Josef Weingartner : The Art Monuments of South Tyrol, Volume II . 7th edition, Bozen 1991, p. 611