Karl Karlowitsch Hippius

Karl Karlowitsch Hippius (1905)

Karl Karlovich Hippius ( Russian Карл Карлович Гиппиус ; born January 29 ^{. Jul} / 10. February  1864 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † 21st May 1941 in Moscow ) was a deutschbaltisch - Russian architect .

Life

Hippius was the son of the German Baltic architect Karl Gustav Hippius and nephew of the architect Otto Pius Hippius . The grandfather was the painter and lithographer Gustav Adolf Hippius . The great-grandfather was the Protestant pastor Thomas Hippius .

Hippius studied 1882-1889 at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . He graduated with the great silver medal and was appointed artist-architect. He then worked with Roman Ivanovich Klein . His career began with commissions from the Moscow merchant families Bachruschin and Perlow. His first and best-known project under Klein's leadership was the Chinese facade and interior of the tea store for Sergei Wassiljewitsch Perlow (1895–1896). At the same time he independently built the villa for Alexei Alexandrowitsch Bachruschin , which became his theater museum.

In 1896, Hippius became an architect for the Moscow City Council and a member of the Moscow Architecture Society. Hippius then built the Bachruschin orphanage with the Holy Trinity Church, the Bachruschin house for free living (1904–1907), two tenement houses for the Bachruschin brothers (1900–1901) and a house for AS Bachruschina. In 1898 a villa in the style of Franco-Belgian Modernism followed for the partner of Perlow Kazakov (now the Canadian Embassy), the Perlow Kazakow tea processing factory and other buildings. 1901–1904, instead of the old demolished church, Hippius built the Beheading Church of John the Baptist in the Sarayisk Kremlin based on a project by Konstantin Michailowitsch Bykowski and from 1904–1907 the poor home with the church of Empress Helena on Moscow's Treti Monettschikowski Pereulok 4, with funding from the Bachruschin brothers –6.

Hippius was one of the most famous aquarium fans in Moscow and supported the Moscow Zoo . In 1910 he built a large public aquarium in his own house to complement the zoo. He also became known as a master photographer , so that in 1910 he became chairman of the Moscow Photographic Society. Thanks to his collaboration with the zoo, Hippius became a state architect after the October Revolution . After the Morosow Garden was merged with the zoo, Hippius designed the enlarged facility in 1925–1927, the structure of which was retained despite some modifications. 1927–1928 he built the Solomennaya Storoschka dacha settlement in Moscow's Timirjasewski- Rajon , in which he then settled himself.

Hippius was buried in the Wagankowo Cemetery .

Works

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  Perlov tea shop, 19 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow

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  Perlov tea shop, 19 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow

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  Bachruschin's Theater Museum, Ulitsa Sazepski Wal 12, Moscow

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  Bachrushin Apartment Building, 12 Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow

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  K. P. Bachruschin Villa, Novokuznetskaya Uliza 27/6, Moscow

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  Hippius Tenement House, Timura Frunze Street, Moscow

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  Kazakov Villa, Starokonjuschenny Pereulok 23, Moscow

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  Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist, Sarayisk Kremlin

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  Armenheim, Treti Monettschikowski Pereulok 4–6, Moscow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Храмы России: Гиппиус Карл Карлович (accessed on May 12, 2018).
2. ↑ Naschtschokina MW : Архитекторы московского модерна. Творческие портреты . 3. Edition. Жираф, Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-89832-043-1 , p. 151-156 .
3. ↑ Казусь И. А .: Советская архитектура 1920-х годов. Организация проектирования . Прогресс-Традиция, Moscow 2009, ISBN 978-5-89826-291-4 , pp. 23 .
4. ↑ Памятники истории (accessed May 12, 2018).
5. ↑ Г. Удинцев: Соломенка . In: Московский журнал . October 1, 2001 ( rusk.ru [accessed May 12, 2018]).