Ludovicus Piglhein

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Loudovicus Piglhein: Oil painting by Christian Carl Magnussen Hamburg , Hamburg

Ludovicus Piglhein (born February 5, 1814 in Preßburg , † June 25, 1876 in Hamburg ) was an interior designer .

Life

Ludovicus Piglhein trained as a wallpapering assistant in Berlin , London and Paris . In addition, he acquired specialist knowledge in his own studies, in which he was guided by historical models. In 1839 he joined a company founded by Christian Friedrich Werner in 1825. Under the company name of C. F. Werner & L. Piglhein , both of them offered their skills as “tapestryer, decorator, furniture factory” in the design of living spaces. Due to the reconstruction after the Hamburg fire of 1842 , economic growth and industrial advances in Paris, they had numerous potential customers. Ludovicus Piglhein quickly took on the leading role in the company and became one of the most important interior designers in the Hanseatic city . His customers included John von Berenberg-Gossler , Gustav Godeffroy and Nicolaus Hudtwalcker .

Piglhein produced upholstered furniture, lavishly decorated cabinets, tables and sideboards . He also designed walls and ceilings and created colorful patterns for fabrics and carpets. He selected curtains and drapes in which he attached importance to a pronounced effect of the resulting folds. In addition to orders from Hamburg, Piglhein worked for homeowners from Bremen and England as well as for owners of castles from Oldenburg , Mecklenburg and Bohemia . Sarcophagi for an African king and valuable furniture for ship cabins of an East Indian prince were also part of his delivery program.

In 1848, on the occasion of the Frankfurt National Assembly , Piglhein decorated the shop window of his shop with a Germania , which he made from white textiles. In a letter to Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth , Carl Hermann Merck judged that it was "a masterpiece" of its kind. In the period that followed, Piglhein received numerous orders for celebrations. At the International Agricultural Exhibition in 1863 he decorated the Heiligengeistfeld . As part of the International Horticultural Exhibition in 1869, he decorated the Old Elbe Park . In 1868 the traveling assembly of the Association of German Architects was a guest in Hamburg. On this occasion, Martin Haller had a building decorated by Piglhein erected on an artificially created island in the Alster .

On September 20, 1868, Wilhelm I visited Hamburg. In addition to an artificial Babelsberg Castle in the middle of the Alster, Martin Haller had an extension built on Max Theodor Hayn's house for this purpose. As there was no suitable town hall available, Wilhelm I was to be received and entertained here. Piglhein also took on the interior design here. The interior designer had numerous carpets, fabrics, chandeliers, columns, pieces of furniture and other decorative items that he loaned out on such occasions.

In 1851 the Great Exhibition took place in London , where Piglhein represented Hamburg as commissioner. Piglhein also participated as a member of the jury at the world exhibitions in Munich in 1854 , in Paris in 1855 and in London in 1862 . He recorded his impressions from the 1855 World's Fair in a 45-page report for the Hamburg Senate .

Piglhein served in the Hamburg citizen military from 1851 to 1854 as captain of the 6th company of the 6th battalion. In 1862 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. He had been called up as the elected replacement for the retired Franz Schneider . From 1865 to 1873 Piglhein was a member of the interim trade committee.

Piglhein was married. He and his wife, who died two years after the interior designer, had two sons. The older son, Johann Christian Ludovicus, called Ludwig (* 1842,) took over the father's company. The younger son, Bruno Piglhein , became a well-known painter. In 1876 he created a painting showing Ludovicus Piglhein on his death bed. The picture can be seen today in the Museum of Hamburg History .

Ludovicus Piglhein received numerous prizes and medals. He was successful in business and left 600,000 marks on his death. It is thanks to Piglhein that “today's Hamburg dignified taste” cannot be achieved anywhere else, judged Martin Haller in a memorial speech that he gave to the architects and engineers association.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859-1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 193 .
  2. ↑ sworn experts in commercial matters, tapestry, in: Hamburgische Staatskalender to the year 1876 , official edition Meißner, undated , p. 58
personal data
SURNAME Piglhein, Ludovicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION interior architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1876
Place of death Hamburg