Otto von Wolframsdorf

Wolf Otto von Wolframsdorf (born January 13, 1803 at Heuckewalde Castle ; † April 8, 1849 at Ammelshain Castle ) was a German architect and builder who worked in the Kingdom of Saxony , especially in its capital and residence city of Dresden .

Life

Otto von Wolframsdorf came from the noble family Wolframsdorf , who were related by marriage to the estate owners of Heuckewalde , the noble family of Herzenberg. From 1823 he attended the building school of the Dresden Academy, where the painter, draftsman and copper engraver Johann Gottfried Jentzsch (1759-1826) was one of his teachers. In 1827 von Wolframsdorf entered the Dresden court building department as an apprentice. There he became court building officer in 1831, court architect in 1838 and real court architect in 1843. The painter Ferdinand von Rayski made a portrait of him around 1841. Von Wolframsdorf lived in Johannisgasse near Georgplatz and later in Brühl's Palais on Augustusstrasse .

Works

Otto von Wolframsdorf's design for the Belvedere built in 1842 on the Dresden Jungfernbastei

The royal palaces and gardens of Moritzburg , Pillnitz and Großsedlitz , for whose structural maintenance he was responsible, initially fell into von Wolframsdorf's area of ​​responsibility at the court building department. In the years 1833/34 he worked on the renovation of the Georgentor in Dresden. In 1834 he was commissioned to plan the renovation of the Zwinger Opera House , as the Morettian Opera House had proven to be too small. In addition, from 1838 onwards, he submitted drafts for the redesign of the second floor of the Dresden Residenzschloss . Around 1839 he made designs for a museum building as a remodeling of the Dresden Johanneum .

The mutual fertilization of the work of Wolframsdorfs and Gottfried Sempers , who from 1834 worked as professor of architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, turned out to be a stroke of luck for Dresden . Von Wolframsdorf was involved in the construction of Semper's Royal Court Theater in 1841 . But the two architects were evidently in competition with each other: while Semper favored the construction of an orangery between the Zwinger and the court theater as part of the forum plan, which he revised in 1837 and was once devised by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , which was evidently rejected for reasons of fire protection and costs , but sat down von Wolframsdorf with his design for an orangery in Der Herzogin Garten , on the other side of the kennel.

This 1841 built Neo-Renaissance building of sandstone was originally 114 m long, 15 m wide and 8 m high. It had 21 high arched windows on the southeast side facing the garden and a richly structured facade that was accented with marble incrustations. In 1945 the building was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden . Only the front building on Ostra-Allee remained . This, however, is no longer in its original location: in order to be able to move the Weißeritzmühlgraben into a vault on the southwestern edge of the Ostra-Allee for the preparations for the construction of the nearby theater , the orangery was shortened by two axes in 1907, the front building dismantled and then - Shifted nine meters to the southwest - rebuilt. The reconstruction of the orangery building as a residential building has been ongoing since 2014.

The fourth Belvedere on the Jungfernbastei , built in 1842 according to von Wolframsdorf's plans, was stylistically based on the Italian Renaissance and the floor plan of Gottfried Semper's opera house. It had two ballrooms, a drawing room and a viewing gallery. Like its predecessor, the third Belvedere , it was used as a restaurant, but was destroyed during the air raids on Dresden in 1945. Rebuilding the belvedere was repeatedly up for debate, but has not yet been implemented (as of 2018).

For the Café Reale , a coffee house on the Brühlschen Terrasse near the Belvedere, von Wolframsdorf provided the plans in 1843. The building was modeled on a Greek temple and had three salons, one of which was used as a sales room. Other rooms were designed as play, smoking and conversation rooms. In 1886 the building was demolished for the construction of the art academy .

In the early classical Palais Hoym on Landhausstrasse , which has been rebuilt since 2018, von Wolframsdorf created a larger hall instead of the previous hall for the Dresden sociability association Harmonie, which was one of the largest concert and theater halls in Dresden. He also worked as an interior designer in other stately buildings in Dresden, such as the Taschenbergpalais , where he worked from 1843 until his death.

exhibition

The State Office for Monument Preservation of Saxony commemorated von Wolframsdorf from October to December 2003 with an exhibition on the occasion of his 200th birthday. In the foyer of the State Office on the fourth floor of the Sächsisches Ständehaus , which is located at the location of Wolframsdorf's former residence Palais Brühl, among other things, student papers from his academy days and architectural drawings for various projects could be seen.

literature

• Thomas Bauer; Torsten Helms: The New Orangery House in the Ducal Garden in Dresden - Hofbaumeister Otto von Wolframsdorf. In: Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden e. V .: Neumarkt courier. Edition 1/2018, ISBN 978-3-7319-0718-3 , p. 12 ff. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Vol. 10, Munich 2008, p. 744.
2. ↑ Tobias Hoeflich: The unfinished Dresden silhouette. In: Sächsische.de , August 18, 2016. Accessed January 20, 2019.
3. ↑ Gottfried Semper and Otto von Wolframsdorf on their 200th birthday. Cabinet exhibition of the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (PDF). Retrieved August 30, 2018.