Karl Karlowitsch Rachau
Karl Karlovich Rachau ( Russian Карл Карлович Рахау ; born June 12 . Jul / 24. June 1830 greg. In St. Petersburg , Imperial Russia ; † 27. June 1880 in Salzburg , Austria-Hungary ) was a Russian architect .
Life
Rachau studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of Konstantin Andrejewitsch Thon . In 1853 he received his first silver medal. In 1857 he finished his studies with a gold medal and a foreign travel grant to perfect his education. He toured Spain , France and Italy . At an exhibition in Paris in 1862 he received a gold medal for his project to restore the Alhambra in Granada . In Munich he received an honorary diploma.
After Rachau's return to St. Petersburg in 1864, he was immediately appointed an academic for architecture . In 1866 he was admitted to the Interior Ministry's structural engineering committee. In 1867 he moved to the construction department of the St. Petersburg government administration . In addition, he began to teach at the Academy of Arts. In 1870 he was appointed professor of architecture and became a member of the Academy Council. From 1871 he worked in the St. Petersburg city administration. In 1873 he became a member of the building committee of the Office for Social Services of Empress Maria .
In 1880 Rachau traveled to Wiesbaden and Bad Gastein for a cure . On the return journey he suffered an attack of mental disorders in Munich , after which he died in a Salzburg hospital.
Works
- Burial chapel of Count Levachev in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery
- Railings of the Liteiny Bridge
- Savior Transfiguration Cathedral in Zhytomyr (1866–1874 with Ernest Gibert and WG Schalamow)
- Villa of the entrepreneur Franz Friedrich Wilhelm San-Galli (1869–1872 with II Gornostajew)
- Station in Rybinsk (1870-1902, burned)
- Reconstruction of the E. M. Meier Villa built in 1730, Angliskaja Nabereschnaja 30, St. Petersburg (1870–1872 with Rudolf von Bernhard )
- Reconstruction of the German Reformed Church built by Harald Julius von Bosse 1862–1865 with Dawid Iwanowitsch Grimm , Bolschaja Morskaja Uliza 58, St. Petersburg (1872, since the 1930s after reconstruction of the cultural palace of the postal workers)
- Lanterns on the Alexander Column in St. Petersburg Palace Square (1876)
- San Galli tenement house , Pushkinskaya Ulitsa 9, St. Petersburg (1877–1878)
- Tenement of the factory owner LJ Kenig, Bolshoi Prospect of Vasilyevsky Island 15/5, St. Petersburg (1878–1879, Nicholas Roerich lived here 1905–1906)
Savior Transfiguration Cathedral, Zhytomyr
San Galli Villa, Ligowski Prospect 62, St. Petersburg
E. M. Meier Villa, Angliskaja Nabereschnaja 30, St. Petersburg
Postal Workers' Palace of Culture, Bolshaya Morskaya Uliza 58, St. Petersburg
Lantern on the Alexander Column, Palace Square, St. Petersburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d ИСТОРИЯ САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГА, АРХИТЕКТОРЫ: Рахау Карл Карлович (accessed March 31, 2018).
- ↑ a b c d Biografija.ru: Рахау Карл Карлович (accessed March 31, 2018).
- ↑ Борис Дубман: Выдающиеся архитекторы прошлого в истории Житомира (accessed March 30, 2018).
- ↑ Sankt-Peterburg Encyclopedia: САН-ГАЛЛИ (Sangalli) Франц Карлович (Франц Фридрих Вильгельм) (1824–1908, СПб.) (Accessed March 31, 2018).
- ↑ Из истории железнодорожного вокзала (accessed March 31, 2018).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rachau, Karl Karlowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рахау, Карл Карлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1880 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |