Justus Molthan
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Justus Molthan (also: Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan and Justus Heinrich Jacob Molthan ; born April 14, 1805 in Hanover ; † January 20, 1885 ibid) was a German architect , lithographer , author and royal Hanoverian and Prussian construction officer . He worked mainly as an interior designer and employee u. a. by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves .
Life
Steel engraving by Louis Hoffmeister after a drawing by Georg Osterwald
Steel engraving by Emil Höfer after Wilhelm Kretschmer , 1857
Justus Molthan was the son of the court gilders and sculptor Johann Wilhelm Ludolph Molthan (1769-1824). Justus' sister Marianne married the sculptor Heinrich Ludwig August Hengst . He completed training at the Bremen Navigation School .
From 1827 he worked as an employee of Laves, the leading architect in Hanover at the time and royal court building councilor, in the royal court building administration. In 1829 Molthan was appointed court construction manager. Since 1830 he was responsible for equipping the Leineschloss. From 1834 to 1835 he and Ernst Ebeling built a house for Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer , which was the first example of the round arch style in Hanover. His Grünwaldsches Reithaus , built in 1838 , had a roof construction by Laves.
In 1843 Molthan went on a trip to Italy in order to equip both the court theater and the Ernst-August-Palais as the winter residence of the Crown Prince from 1847 . In 1852 he set up the hall of the Thalia Association , and in 1865 the court theater magazine in Heinrichstrasse with neo-Gothic elements . From 1867 he was in charge of the building affairs, machines and decorations of the royal theater with the rank of senior court building officer.
He mostly designed interior fittings and furniture for court buildings, mainly in the neo-renaissance style , especially during the renovation of the Leineschloss from 1830 and the new building of the royal court theater in Hanover from 1847.
Appreciation
Some of his furniture and arts and crafts can now be found in the Herrenhausen Museum and at Marienburg Castle in Pattensen / Nordstemmen .
1954 in Calenberger Neustadt the Molthanstraße named after him.
Works (selection)
Fonts (selection)
- Directory of the sculptures and paintings which are in the royal Hanover castles and buildings , Hanover: Friedrich Culemann, 1844; Digitized via Google books
- On promoting trade through art. In: Contributions to the promotion of art in the trades , Hanover 8 (approx. 1867/68), p. 157ff.
- To distinguish the Renaissance style from the Baroque and Rococo and plait styles. In: ibid, Hannover 9 (approx. 1869/70), pp. 173ff.
Other works (selection)
- Knight's Hall in the royal palace in Hanover. Restored in 1836. Laves inv .. Molthan del .. Giere lith. , [Hanover], 1837; Digitized by the Deutsche Fotothek
- Eduard Frederich , Justus Molthan: Description of the Festcarroussels, which took place on April 13, 1853 in the Royal Riding House of Hanover for the preliminary celebration of the very highest birth festival of Her Majesty Queen Maria , [Hanover]: Giere [u. a.], 1854
- Justus Molthan's estate is kept in the Hannover City Archives .
- Lithographs on the title of the book and on the inside of the Ernst August album are by Molthan.
literature
- Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover, 1814-1866 , Hanover 1914, p. 560
- Alexander Dorner : 100 years of building in Hanover. Hanover 1931.
- Alheidis von Rohr : Bourgeois living culture of the 19th century in Hanover. 1987, pp. 30, 34, 36, 38
- Helmut Knocke : LN 7052. The endless building research. In: Festschrift for Georg Hoeltje . 1988, pp. 73-78.
- Klaus Siegner: Residential buildings in the city , in Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink: Laves and Hanover: Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , revised new edition of the accompanying publication to the exhibition From the castle to the train station, building in Hanover of the state of Lower Saxony, Institute for Building and Art history of the University of Hanover and the state capital Hanover in the Hanover Historical Museum from October 13, 1988 to January 8, 1989, Hanover: Schäfer, 1989, p. 569 and others.
- Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Hanover 1998, p. 552 and others
- Alheidis von Rohr: Justus Molthan (1805-1885). Renaissance style designs . In: home country. Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care. With constant reports and pictures from the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer Hannover , ed. from Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, Hanover: Heimatbund Niedersachsen, 1992
- Helmut Knocke in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 449.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Knocke: Molthan, Justus , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 259
- ↑ a b c o. V .: Molthan, Justus in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 18, 2013, last accessed on May 5, 2019
- ↑ Thomas Dann : The royal splendid apartments in Hanover's Leineschloß: Investigations into the sequence of rooms in the first half of the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , Volume 120), Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3- 7752-5808-1 and ISBN 3-7752-5808-6 , p. 29; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Digitized from The Getty Research Institute ; on-line:
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Molthan, Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Molthan, Justus Heinrich Jakob; Molthan, Justus Heinrich Jacob (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Hanoverian or Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1885 |
| Place of death | Hanover |