Michael Drewes

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Michael Drewes

Michael Wolfgang Drewes Marquardt (born September 18, 1944 in Herzhausen (Vöhl) as the illegitimate son of Friedrich Kalbfuß ) is a German- Mexican architect , art and building historian , and composer who is particularly concerned with Mexican architecture in the Second Mexican Empire . During his work in the preservation of monuments he devoted himself in detail to baroque Mexican organ building .

biography

Drewes lived in Germany until 1959. Here he attended the elementary school on Norderney , in Bremen and Fürth- Dambach and then the Hardenberg-Gymnasium in Fürth. At the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico City , where he was a classmate of the later PRI politician Emilio Lozoya Thalmann , he finished school in 1964. He studied architecture until 1970 and also art history until 1978 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His professors there included Bernardo Calderón Cabrera , Félix Candela Outeriño , Mathias Goeritz , Jorge Alberto Manrique , Xavier Moyssén Echeverría and Jaime Ortiz Lajous . Under the latter, he later worked with the architect Francisco Ursúa Cocke , while he was active in the state preservation of monuments as a member of the Dirección General de Sitios y Monumentos del Patrimonio Cultural . In 1983 he received his doctorate from the University of Kaiserslautern as Dr.-Ing. of architectural history. He wrote his dissertation on the baroque teaching building of the Colegio de Cristo in the Centro Histórico of the Mexican capital; the work was published in book form in 1984. As an architect, Drewes also worked in various architectural offices, with a landscape architect and on an archaeological excavation of a Roman city in Israel , where he lived for a while. Before emigrating, he was also Emilio Lozoya's personal advisor when he was sub-minister in the Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social .

His enthusiasm for making music and composing began in adolescence. He dealt autodidactically with music theory , harmony and composition . In addition to his originally classical compositions, there were later also great symphonic works, including folklore, often Mexican and Eastern European colors.

Drewes published several articles on Mexican architecture in the time of Maximilian of Mexico in the Annals of the IIE and on Mexican Baroque organs.

He is married with a daughter and two grandchildren. He lives in the United States .

Publications (selection)

German
  • The Colegio de Christo, a Mexican teaching building from the Baroque period and its architectural history development , 1984
Spanish

For an overview of the articles in the annals of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas see web link.

English
  • Further Notes on Mexican Organs of the 18th & 19th Centuries , in The Organ Yearbook , 14th Ed., 1983, pp. 23-43.
  • The Positive at San Jerónimo, Mexico City , in The Organ Yearbook , 19th Ed., 1988, pp. 31-37.
  • more articles on Mexican organs in the Organ Yearbook

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature by and about Michael Drewes in the catalog of the State and University Library Bremen
  2. ↑ also used: Personal vita at Stayfriends
  3. ↑ The Colegio de Christo, a Mexican teaching building from the Baroque period and its development in terms of building history .
  4. ↑ [1] at scoreexchange.com, accessed on September 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Drewes, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drewes Marquardt, Michael Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Mexican architect, art and building historian and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöhl- Herzhausen