Max Joseph Custodis

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Max Joseph Hubertus Custodis (born November 8, 1805 in Düsseldorf ; † May 16, 1885 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Wife Elise Custodis ; Portrait of Franz Thöne , a friend of Max Joseph Custodis

Custodis was mentioned in 1829 as Bau eleve in Düsseldorf. From 1841 to 1850 he worked as a court architect for Prince Friedrich of Prussia . Prince Friedrich, a nephew of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , was the commander of the 14th Division stationed in Düsseldorf and resided there in Jägerhof Palace as the highest representative of the royal family in the Rhine Province . For the prince, Custodis was in charge of building work at Eller Castle , which he had acquired for his family in 1843. Mainly, however, Custodis built houses for citizens, especially in the expansion areas of the city, which expanded rapidly in the 19th century. From 1851 to 1853 he built for the Westphalian landowner Carl Gisbert Wilhelm von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg the house Bamenohl in Sauerland order.

Custodis married Elisabeth Ferdinande, called Elise (1810-1894), the daughter of the Düsseldorf decorative painter Ludwig Pose . The couple had two children, the son Wilhelm Joseph Ludwig Hubert and the daughter Wilhelmine Louise Hubertine Barbara, called Minna (1836-1910). The family's house stood on the Schwanenmarkt 19 property in the south of Düsseldorf's Carlstadt . Around 1840, the landscape painter Eduard Wilhelm Pose , Elise Custodis's brother, also lived there for several years .

Landhaus Custodis on the Isenberg near Hattingen an der Ruhr

In 1855 Custodis acquired the Isenburg ruins on the Isenberg near Hattingen an der Ruhr and built the Custodis country house there as a summer house for his family in a historic - romantic - classicist style. In 1863 he sold it.

Custodis was a shareholder in the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as well as a member of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine and the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia .

literature

  • Custodis, Joseph (Max Joseph Hubert) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 23, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22763-9 , p. 208.
  • Paul-Georg Custodis : Notes on Max Joseph Hubertus Custodis. Architect in Düsseldorf. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege , 37th year 2000, issue 2, pp. 118–126.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Trier , Willy Weyres : 19th century art in the Rhineland. Architecture II: Profane buildings and urban planning . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1979, p. 529.
  2. ↑ House Custodis on burg-isenberg.de , accessed on September 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Custodis, Max Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Custodis, Max Joseph Hubertus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1885
Place of death Dusseldorf