Otto Simonson

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Otto Jakob Simonson (born March 23, 1829 in Dresden ; † May 22, 1914 in Riga ) was a German architect .

Life

Gottfried Semper's student studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . He built the Great Community Synagogue in Leipzig in 1853/1854 . In 1854 he went to Saint Petersburg , where he a. a. rebuilt the dining room of the Shuvalov Palace (since 2013 Fabergé Museum, Fontanka Promenade 21) in a neo-Gothic wooden architecture. In St. Petersburg, married Simonson, the Latvian Maria Lacarius (~ 1840-1898).

In 1856 he was appointed by the Russian governorship to Tbilisi , where he was entrusted with the execution of public buildings and was appointed general architect in 1858. In Tbilisi, Simonson built or expanded the viceroy's palace (today the youth palace, Rustawelis Gamsiri 6) and the classical grammar school (Rustawelis Gamsiri 10). Together with the German landscape architect Heinrich Scharrer , he designed the Alexandergarten (today Park des April 9).

Simonson was accepted into the Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg and worked as an architect until 1862. In 1904 he moved to Riga to financially support his widowed daughter Olga (1862-1918). During this time he took a trip to Egypt, Greece and Italy to get to know the architecture there.

Fonts

  • The New Temple in Leipzig. Designed and executed by Otto Simonson. Riegel, Berlin 1858.

literature

  • Simonson, Otto . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 284 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Manfred Nawroth: Germans and Georgians. From the Middle Ages to today. (Publication accompanying the exhibition in the Georgian National Museum Tbilisi from May 15 to September 22, 2012). Edited by the German Embassy in Tbilisi, the Georgian National Museum and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Tbilisi 2013, ISBN 978-9941-9311-0-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irma Berscheid-Kimeridze, Georgienseite: German Architects in Georgia - Buildings in Tbilisi , accessed on March 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Association of the Germans of Georgia: German Architects and Painters in Georgia , accessed on March 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Irma Berscheid-Kimeridze, Georgia page: Heinrich Scharrer - Botanical Garden in Tbilisi , accessed on March 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Simonson, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simonson, Otto Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1914
Place of death Riga