Rudolf Faithful to God

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Rudolf Gottgetreu (born April 23, 1821 in Swinoujscie , Pomerania ; † May 25, 1890 in Tutzing ; full name: Rudolf Wilhelm Gottgetreu ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Rudolf Gottgetreu was a son of the port designer and master builder Gustav Adolf Wilhelm Gottgetreu . He attended grammar school in Bromberg and entered the Royal Industrial Institute in Berlin in 1838 . After starting a three-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Poznan , Gottgetreu studied architecture from 1842 to 1844 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he was a student of August von Voit . During his studies he also worked as a lithographer and engraver. From 1845 to 1848 Rudolf Gottgetreu worked for the Railway Construction Commission in Nuremberg , but in 1846 he passed the Bavarian state examination for civil architecture.

From 1848 Gottgetreu worked as a telegraph operator in Salzburg and Munich; In this function he was temporarily in the personal service of King Maximilian II , whereby the architecturally interested king influenced his decision to turn to architecture again. From 1850 to 1852 Gottgetreu was assistant for architectural drawing at Friedrich Bürklein's chair at the Munich Polytechnic . From 1852 he himself was given a professorship for building science, architectural drawing and building materials. After the Polytechnic School was integrated into the New Polytechnic in 1868, Gottgetreu held the chair for building materials, general construction for buildings and architectural drawing until his retirement in 1888 . As a university lecturer, he wrote comprehensive textbooks on building materials and building structures.

His brothers Moritz Wilhelm and Gustav Adolf (1812–1890) also worked as architects.

tomb

Grave of Rudolf Gottgetreu on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Rudolf Hilary is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 10 - Series 2 - Place 25) location .

architecture

In the course of the redesign of Munich commissioned by the Bavarian monarch, Rudolf Gottgetreu prepared a series of detailed plans for the new boulevard, today's Maximilianstrasse , in 1852 . Bürklein, Voit, Eduard Riedel and Georg Friedrich Ziebland were also involved in these designs . Bürklein and Gottgetreu were, however, the most important representatives of the so-called Maximilian style , the style elements of which were borrowed from various historical epochs, but were arranged in a uniform grid characterized by a dense vertical axis sequence. The style developed a synthesis of buildings by the Schinkel School and Friedrich von Gärtner's , from which both the broad form and the use of round arches were adopted.

Of the five drafts made by Gottgetreu for the buildings on Maximilianstrasse, only the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten was implemented between 1854 and 1857 , which was originally planned as a tenement house with an attached cloth factory. In addition to his teaching activities, other buildings were built according to his plans, such as the St. Georg boys 'school in Freising in 1861 and the boys' school in Rosenheim's Königstrasse in 1866 . In 1873 the construction of the parish church of St. Markus , the second Protestant parish church in Munich, began under Gottgetreus' direction . In 1874 he was released from this job due to a quarrel with the client; his successor was Professor Georg Eberlein , who completed the building in 1876 after partial changes to controversial plans by Gottgetreus.

buildings

  • Rosenheim, facade of the boys' school, 1866
  • Munich, Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten
  • Munich, department store in the Löwengrube
  • Munich, Evangelical Parish Church of St. Markus, 1873–1877
  • Neu-Ulm , war memorial, 1875

Publications

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The carpenter's work . In: Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , July 29, 1882, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Faithful to God, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottgetreu, Rudolf Wilhelm (full name); Faithful to God, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1890
Place of death Tutzing