Lukas Engesser

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Lukas Engesser (born October 18, 1820 in Villingen ; † January 31, 1880 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German architect .

Life

Engesser studied at the construction school of the Karlsruhe Polytechnic under Friedrich Eisenlohr , Heinrich Hübsch and Thiery. It was only after graduation that he completed his Abitur and passed the state examination in 1845. During a trip to Italy from 1853 to 1854 he made many drawings for Hübsch's work The Early Christian Churches . From 1855 he was responsible for building the Basel-Waldshut railway line , and in 1857 for building the Kehler train station . On August 6, 1863 he was appointed archbishop's master builder for the Archdiocese of Freiburg , and Friedrich Feederle became his colleague in Karlsruhe .

His buildings at that time, which he built mainly in neo-Romanesque and early Christian styles, include churches in Freiburg-St. Georgen ( St. Georg ), Mahlberg , Höllstein , Lörrach , Bremgarten , Obereggingen , Müllheim (Baden) , Schopfheim , Lellwangen (to Deggenhausertal ) and Weisweil as well as several rectories. He was also involved in restoration work on the Stephansmünster in Breisach , the Martinskirche in Freiburg and the Speyer Cathedral .

Like his mentors and teachers Weinbrenner and Hübsch, Lukas Engesser rejected the architecture of the Baroque period. At his expense, measures to remove the Baroque style with extensive to total loss of substance. He rated interior design in the style of cartilage and rococo particularly disparagingly . The interior fittings of the Benedictine abbey church of Ettenheimmünster, the Hartkirche of Freiburg-Tiengen and the Martinskirche in Freiburg are to be listed as significant, undocumented losses.

After Engesser fell ill, Franz Baer (1850–1891) first became his deputy and later his successor.

The engineer Friedrich Engesser (1848–1931), who was mainly involved in building railways and bridges for the Baden state, was related to Lukas Engesser.

Engesser was in close contact with numerous artists of his time, including Lucian Reich , Moritz von Schwind , Franz Xaver Reich , Johann Nepomuk Heinemann , Rudolf Gleichauf and Wilhelm Dürr .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete title: The early Christian churches according to the architectural monuments and older descriptions and the influence of the early Christian architectural style on church construction in all later periods: atlas containing 63 plates and their explanation on three sheets. Full text output  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Heidelberg University Library.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  
  2. ↑ a b Engesser, Lukas . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 550 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany. Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 150 f.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kosch : The Catholic Germany. 1933.
  5. ↑ Dieter Weis: On the activity of the archbishop's master builder Lukas Engesser and on his understanding of art. In: Ettenheimmünster monastery church. Schwarzwaldverlag Reiff, Offenburg, 1999, p. 94 f.
  6. ^ Walter Sbrzesny:  Friedrich Engesser. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 530 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Engesser, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1880
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau