Severin Jensen

Severin Jensen (* 1723 in Copenhagen ; † after 1809 probably in Mitau or Italy) was an architect of Danish origin . From 1772 he was court architect for Duke Peter von Kurland in the Duchy of Courland and Semgallia and from 1796 architect of the Courland Governorate .

life and work

Nothing is known about Jensen's training. After 1751 he was involved in the construction of the Palazzo Reale in Caserta under Luigi Vanvitelli . Probably in 1764 he came to Courland ; At the beginning of 1766 he joined Duke Ernst Johann von Biron as a building manager .

Jensen assisted from 1764 Bartolomeo Rastrelli in the construction of the castle Rundāle in Latvia and in Jelgava Palace in Courland capital Jelgava . After Rastrelli's death in 1772, Jensen succeeded him as court architect.

From 1773 to 1775 Severin Jensen converted Tsarina Anna Ivanovna 's widow's palace in Jelgava into the Academia Petrina . The place had acquired a certain importance through their court . Academia Petrina was the oldest higher educational institution in Latvia . In 1803 he moved to Italy.

Jensen's works "are among the most important examples of early classical architecture in the Middle Baltic".

Kroņvircavas (Kron-Würzau), Kavaliershaus (1769)
Academia Petrina project (1774)
Academia Petrina - today's building

literature

Julius Döring, Wilhelm Neumann: Jensen, Severin . In: Lexicon of Baltic Artists . Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 76-77 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Jensen, Severin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 319 .
Steffen Stolz: Jensen, Severin. In: General Artist Lexicon . KG Saur, Berlin / Boston 2017. (Only with access authorization degruyter.com. Accessed on May 3, 2018).

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Severin Jensen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

^ Image catalog: Staircase of the Academia Petrina in Jelgava (Mitau). herder-institut.de, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
↑ Karl-Otto Schlau : Mitau in the 19th Century: Life and Work of Mayor Franz von Zuccalmaglio (1800-1873). Harro von Hirschheydt, Wedemark-Elze 1995, p. 109.
^ Julius Döring, Wilhelm Neumann: Jensen, Severin . In: Lexicon of Baltic Artists . Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 76-77 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ AKL (lit.)

personal data
SURNAME	Jensen, Severin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1723
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	after 1809
Place of death	unsure: Mitau

[1] Image catalog: Staircase of the Academia Petrina in Jelgava (Mitau). herder-institut.de, accessed on May 28, 2019 .

[2] Karl-Otto Schlau : Mitau in the 19th Century: Life and Work of Mayor Franz von Zuccalmaglio (1800-1873). Harro von Hirschheydt, Wedemark-Elze 1995, p. 109.

[3] Julius Döring, Wilhelm Neumann: Jensen, Severin . In: Lexicon of Baltic Artists . Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 76-77 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] AKL (lit.)