Max Spitta
August Adolf Max Spitta (born July 13, 1842 in Lissa , Province of Posen , † December 12, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer .
Life
Spitta was the son of a senior staff doctor. He attended the Saldernsche Gymnasium in Brandenburg an der Havel and was a student of the court building advisor Adolf Lohse in Berlin for a year after passing the school-leaving exam there . After studying at the Berlin Bauakademie , Spitta passed the building management examination in 1868 and, after completing his legal clerkship, the master builder examination in 1872. After that he was in the public service until the end of his life. He worked in the Berlin municipal building administration, in the ministerial building commission and, from 1896, as a lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, and since 1899 he was an extraordinary member of the Prussian Academy of Building. Emperor Wilhelm II valued Spitta and entrusted him with various designs and construction projects, so he was also given the job of construction management for Siegesallee in the Großer Tiergarten .
Spitta shaped Berlin's sacred architecture with his historicist designs.
Max Spitta was a nephew of the landscape and marine painter Theodor Spitta (1823-1908), his daughter Gertrud Spitta , born in 1881, was also a painter. He was buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Mitte (Chausseestrasse 126).
In 1938, near the Erlöserkirche, Spittastrasse was probably named after him.
Work (selection)
- 1890–1892: Church of the Redeemer in Berlin-Lichtenberg, Nöldnerstraße (together with Conrad Wilhelm Hase )
- 1891–1893: New Nazareth Church in Berlin-Wedding
- 1891–1895: Gnadenkirche in Berlin-Mitte
- 1895–1897: Auenkirche in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
- 1898: New interior elements of the Maria Laach Abbey Church
- 1898–1900: St. Johannes Evangelist Church (Berlin) on Auguststrasse in Berlin-Mitte
- 1898–1900: Golgotha Church in Borsigstrasse in Berlin-Mitte
- 1900: German fountain in Istanbul (based on a drawing by Kaiser Wilhelm II)
- 1900–1902: Design for the Erlöserkirche in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ( executed 1903–1908 by Franz Schwechten )
- 1900–1902: Construction plan for the Protestant church in Driesen ( Neumark )
- Completed in 1902: Biological institute on the island of Helgoland
literature
- Secret Oberbaurath Spitta †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume 22, No. 101, December 20, 1902, p. 630 f. ( digital.zlb.de ).
- Spitta, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 391 .
Web links
- Holdings on Max Spitta in the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin , last accessed on October 7, 2019
- Picture of Spitta's tomb in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin on www.berlin-in-bildern.de (Photo by Claudia Leverentz, September 2006)
- Builder: Max Spitta kulturkirchen.org
- Churches: St.-Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche Kulturkirchen.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Spitta. Deutsche Fotothek, accessed on April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Spittastrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert ) - there incorrect information about the location of Spitta's grave.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spitta, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spitta, August Adolf Max (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lissa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1902 |
| Place of death | Berlin |