Ole Schmidt (architect)

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Probstenhaus in Preetz
Katharinenhof (originally Baurs Landhaus) in Hamburg-Blankenese
The English Church in Hamburg

Ole Jørgen Schmidt (born July 10, 1793 in Copenhagen ; † February 27, 1848 in Hamburg ) was a Danish-German architect who can be assigned to classicism and who created several buildings in Hamburg and Holstein . On many of these assignments he worked with Johann Matthias Hansen , the nephew of Christian Frederik Hansen .

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Ole Jørgen Schmidt was born as the son of master tailor Friderich Schmidt and his wife Laurence Sophie Kaas. On November 22, 1816 he married Karen Kristine Starup (baptized March 26, 1797, † April 29, 1871 in Hamburg), a daughter of the tailor Soren Starup. Ole Schmidt studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art since 1810 , where he also came into contact with CF Hansen as a student. From 1818 to 1824 he was an assistant teacher at the academy's building school.

With public and private financial support, he traveled to Italy in 1824 to deepen his studies. He continuously supplied the Danish Art Academy with progress reports. In Rome he was part of the artist circle around Bertel Thorvaldsen . When his financial resources were exhausted, he had to return to Copenhagen in 1827 at the expense of the academy.

In order to be able to continue studying at the art academy, after his return from the trip he submitted works with which he applied for the Great Gold Medal, which was also awarded to him on January 14, 1828. In 1834 he finished his studies, but did not get a permanent position at the academy. However, he had found employment in Altona . There he applied unsuccessfully in 1836 as a possible successor to Friedrich Christian Heylmann for the supervision of the official buildings in Holstein. His further application in 1840 was also not considered. He moved to Hamburg, where he designed and built some private houses and the English Church. Among other things, he built a new synagogue in Altona. Baur's country house in Blankenese, which he designed together with Matthias Hansen, is considered to be his main work. All of his buildings show the strong influence of CF Hansen as well as minor influences of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's work. The unrealized design for a new stock exchange building in Hamburg, of which a well-preserved wooden model still exists today, is regarded as his most independent work.

In 1828 he published the first and second volumes of Conturer til Frescomalerier i Herculanum og Pompeji and received public funding from a royal fund. However, since there were only a small number of readers, the series was not continued.

He died on February 27, 1848 in Hamburg in very modest circumstances, as he had to file for bankruptcy a year earlier and was buried in this city too.

Works (selection)

Buildings

Publications

  • Sketchers of ornaments and arabesques ... from Pompeii , Herculanum and Stabiæ and contours of ancient fresco painters ... in Pompeii, Herculanum and Stabiæ. 1828-1829.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ole Jørgen Schmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Representation of the renovation of Landhaus Baur by the executing architects. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Ole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ole Jørgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1848
Place of death Hamburg