Karl Gildemeister
Karl Gildemeister (born October 11, 1820 in Bremen ; † February 8, 1869 in Bremen) was a German architect .
biography
Gildemeister was the son of Senator Johann Carl Friedrich Gildemeister (1779–1849) and his wife Verena Thibeta Stolz (1795–1841) as well as the brother of Mayor Otto Gildemeister and son-in-law of the architect Jacob Ephraim Polzin .
After a practical training with Jacob Ephraim Polzin, Gildemeister first attended the Polytechnic University of Karlsruhe and then the Berlin Building Academy . Study trips took him to Italy and Greece. Between about 1849 and 1857 he worked in New York. For the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853) in New York, Karl Gildemeister and Georg Carstensen built a crystal palace in 1852 , which fell victim to a major fire in 1858. In Bremen he was a teacher at the commercial drawing school (an arts and crafts school ) until his early death . Its historical measurements of the Bremen town hall and the view of the market square are well known .
See also
literature
- Michael J. Lewis, “The round arch style and the Karlsruhe-Philadelphia axis,” in duration and change: Festschrift for Harold Hammer-Schenk (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2004), pp. 128-138.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X (2 volumes).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gildemeister, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1869 |
| Place of death | Bremen |