Ludwig Catel

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Ludwig Catel

Ludwig Catel , also Louis Catel , (born June 20, 1776 in Berlin ; † November 15, 1819 there ; full name: Ludwig Friedrich Catel ) was a Berlin architect , interior designer and painter .

family

Ludwig Catel was the son of the Huguenot Pierre Frédéric Catel (1747–1791) and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine, née Rousset (1757–1809), was born. His father was an assessor at the French court in Berlin. He had two brothers, the composer Charles-Simon Catel and the painter and wood sculptor Franz Ludwig Catel (1778–1856) and a sister, Francoise Henriette (born February 28, 1781 in Berlin; † July 18, 1781 in Berlin).

life and work

Ludwig Catel was a student of Friedrich Gilly and founded a company for stucco work in Berlin in 1801 . After consultation with Duke Carl August, she worked on the design of the Weimar City Palace in Weimar , where the brothers stayed from 1801 to 1803. Since 1800, Catel delivered on behalf of the Berlin merchant Sigmund Otto v. Treskow designs for the Owinsk estate near Poznan, from 1803 he built a brick factory, stables, an administrator's house and the distillery, which was completed in 1804. 1804–1805 he also led the construction of Owinsk Castle - based on his own designs, modified in 1805 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In 1807 Catel went on a trip to Paris with his brother , and in 1811/1812 another to Italy.

Ludwig Catel was also the founder of the predecessor of the Luisenstift . In the later years of his life he developed an illness that caused "temporary mental disorders" and died mentally deranged in 1818. He was buried in the French cemetery on Berlin's Chausseestrasse .

plant

Fonts

  • Suggestions for improving playhouses. 1802.
  • Suggestions for some major improvements in the manufacture of bricks in 1806.
  • Description of the newly furnished rooms in the Royal Palace of Braunschweig. 1811. Digital version of the TU Braunschweig
  • About the building of Protestant churches. 1815.
  • Museum. Established, designed and presented according to its original forms. 1816. Digital copy of the SLUB Dresden via EOD

Well-known works (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kieling 1986, page 17

literature

  • Robert Dohme :  Ludwig Friedrich Catel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 71.
  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century. (= Miniatures on the history, culture and monument preservation of Berlin , No. 26.) Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986.
  • Rüdiger v. Treskow: Gilly Schinkel Catel. The Owinsk Country Palace near Posen 1803-1806 , Berlin 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Catel, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catel, Ludwig Friedrich; Catel, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Berlin architect, interior designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1819
Place of death Berlin