Ludwig Lange (architect)

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Ludwig Lange
Grave of Ludwig Lange in the old southern cemetery in Munich location
"The cathedral in Worms and part of the market square". Steel engraving after a drawing by Ludwig Lange, 1832
Former stock exchange in Bergen
Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig
National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Ludwig Lange (born March 22, 1808 in Darmstadt ; † March 31, 1868 in Munich ) was a German architect , architectural and landscape draftsman .

Life

Ludwig Lange was born in Darmstadt in 1808 as the son of a court official. In 1823 he began his training as an architect with Georg August Lerch , which he continued in 1826 at the University of Giessen . From 1826 to 1830 he also worked with Georg Moller . From 1830 to 1834 he was a student of the landscape painter Carl Rottmann in Munich, with whom he went on a study trip to Greece for the first time in 1834. On another trip he met the writer Ludwig Steub and followed him on his sailing tour to Hydra and the Cyclades.

In 1835 he was appointed drawing teacher at the new royal high school in Athens , Greece, and on May 15, he was also appointed building officer by the Greek King Otto I. In 1838 he returned to Munich and began extensive study trips through Germany. In 1847 he was appointed as the successor to August von Voit to the professorship for architecture at the building school at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich .

Ludwig became known for his lithographed picturesque views of the strangest and most beautiful cathedrals , churches and monuments of Gothic architecture on the Rhine , Main and Lahn (Frankfurt 1833–1834). In 1832, together with the engraver Ernst Rauch, he published original views of Germany , which, based on his drawings, contain original steel engraved views of the then most distinguished cities in Germany, their most important cathedrals, churches and other architectural monuments . He published parts of his numerous designs in works of higher architecture (Darmstadt 1846–1855, 3 volumes).

The royal villa near Berchtesgaden and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (1856–1857) were built according to his plans. In his buildings he followed the classic patterns of the Italian Renaissance . His students include his son, the former director of the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich , Emil von Lange , the Swiss Joseph Bühlmann and the Meininger Albert Schmidt . Langes brothers were the landscape painter Julius Lange and the art printer and publisher Gustav Georg Lange .

tomb

The tomb of Ludwig Lange is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 38 - row 13 - 24th) Location .

Works

Fonts

  • Original views of the historically most remarkable cities in Germany, their cathedrals, churches and other architectural monuments , 6 volumes, Darmstadt 1832–1867.
  • Travel reports from Greece , Darmstadt 1835.
  • The Rhine and the Rhineland , Gustav Georg Lange , Darmstadt 1842.
  • Picturesque views of the strangest and most beautiful cathedrals, churches and monuments of Gothic architecture on the Rhine, Main and Lahn , Frankfurt 1843.
  • Works of higher architecture , Darmstadt 1846.
  • The Greek landscape paintings by Karl Rottmann in the new royal Pinakothek in Munich , Munich 1854.
  • The Kingdom of Saxony, Thuringia and Anhalt in picturesque original views , Department 1: The Kingdom of Saxony , Darmstadt, Lange 1857.
  • Cologne once , 2 folders, Beume, Opladen [1946].

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heimatfreundebali.de/heimatgeschichte/gastst%C3%A4tten/m%C3%BCllers-hotel/
  2. ↑ Friedbert Ficker Gert Morzinek, Barbara Mazurek: Ernst Ziller - A Saxon architect and architectural historian in Greece; The Ziller family. Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2003, p. 4 f., ISBN 3-89870-076-3 .
  3. ↑ National Archaeological Museum (Greek)
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, architectural and landscape draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1868
Place of death Munich