Wilhelm Stier (architect)

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Wilhelm Stier, make Ney, around 1825, pencil drawing

Wilhelm Stier (born  May 8, 1799 in Błonie near Warsaw ; †  September 19, 1856 in Schöneberg ; full name: Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Stier ) was a German architect and professor at the Berlin Building Academy .

Life

Wilhelm Stier was born as the son of a Prussian steward in what was then the Prussian province of South Prussia and grew up in Silesia after its end . From 1812 he lived with relatives in Berlin and attended the grammar school in the gray monastery . Wilhelm studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin, one of his teachers was Salomo Sachs , with whom he was a lifelong friend. In 1817 he passed the construction manager examination.

After four years of further training in the Rhineland under the guidance of Adolph von Vagedes , he set off on foot via France to Italy . He reported on his trip in the posthumously published Hesperian sheets . He made contact with the circle of German artists in Rome . As a collaborator, he took part in the Hittorff and Zanth expedition to research Greek antiquities in southern Italy and contributed to publications by the Prussian ambassador Bunsen on the history of the city of Rome .

In October 1824 Wilhelm Stier met Schinkel on his second trip to Italy. Schinkel recognized Stier's exceptional artistic talent, wanted to win him over as a teacher for the Bauakademie and obtained a Prussian state scholarship, which enabled Stier to continue his studies in ancient architecture for another two years.

Professor and building officer Wilhelm Stier, 1850

After five years in Italy, Stier - until then only a construction manager (trainee lawyer) - became a teacher at the Berlin Bauakademie at Easter 1828, where he founded a new college for design, later for art history. After some pressure, he passed a simplified exam and, as a result, received the qualification of agricultural inspector for a large city and the title of professor in 1831 .

Design for the Berlin Cathedral

Stier wrote numerous study and teaching drafts, u. a. for the Berlin Cathedral , in which he refused to imitate historical styles. From 1841 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts. In 1842 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and in 1853 in Munich . In 1847, a circle of student admirers was formed around Stier, who was a charismatic teacher, which still exists as an Academic Association Motif and maintains Stier's memory.

“Stierburg”, home of the architect Wilhelm Stier, built 1834–1837

Since 1837, Stier lived in what is popularly known as the “Stierburg” due to its picturesque structure. It was located in the street Auf dem Carlsbade (now: Am Karlsbad ), which belonged to Schöneberg until 1860, immediately next to the home and studio of Karl Begas the Elder. Ä. , with whom Taurus had made friends in Rome. Stier was a member of the Schöneberg school board. On January 18, 1851, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Red Eagle Order.

Tomb for Wilhelm Stier in the Alt-Schöneberg cemetery

Bull is buried in the old cemetery in Hauptstrasse . His grave monument created by Friedrich August Stüler bears the inscription "To the friend, the teacher - the architects of Germany". Every year, even more than 160 years after his death, a celebration of “his” Academic Association's motif in his memory takes place at this grave .

Wilhelm Stier is the father of the architect Hubert Stier , grandfather of the landscape architect Rudolf Stier (1890–1966) , who worked in Kassel and Vienna, and the great-grandfather of the architect and town planner Hubert Hoffmann . Wilhelm's cousin Friedrich Gustav Alexander Stier was also a teacher at the Bauakademie from 1842 to 1861.

In Berlin-Friedenau , Stierstrasse is named after him.

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Bull, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 207 f.
  • Nekrolog in Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume VIII (1857), Col. 86 ff.
  • EH Toelken : Lecture at the annual meeting of the Königl. Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, July 21, 1857. In: Deutsches Kunstblatt. 8 (1857) 32 (6 August 1857), pp. 277-280 ( Nekrolog Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Stier , pp. 277 f).
  • KEO Fritsch : For Wilhelm Stier - To celebrate his memory on May 8, 1866. In: Our motif. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the academic association Motiv, Berlin 1897, Appendix, p. 11 ff.
  • Hubert Stier (Ed.): Architectural inventions by Wilhelm Stier. Berlin 1867.
  • Wilhelm Stier: Hesperian sheets - postponed writings. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1857 ( books.google.de ).
  • Gudrun Blankenburg: Friedenau - artist's place and idyllic residential area. The history of a Berlin district. Frieling, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8280-2350-9 (with register and enclosed monument map).
  • Hermann Ebling: Friedenau - From the life of a rural community, 1871-1924. Zinsmeister and Grass, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-9801309-0-8 .
  • Hermann Ebling, Evelyn Weissberg: Friedenau tells. Stories from a Berlin suburb - 1871 to 1914. Edition Friedenauer Brücke, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811242-1-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. More detailed description: Grave of Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Stier, on the website of the Historical Cemetery Foundation , accessed on April 25, 2016.
  2. Carl-Peter Steinmann: The bull syringe - happy drink at the grave. In: ders .: No rest! Berlin excavations. Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88747-166-0 , p. 103 ff .;
    Kurt Pomplun : Birthday serenade at Stier's grave. In: Pomplun's Great Berlin Book. Publishing house Haude u. Spener Berlin 1985, p. 59 ff.
  3. ^ Stephanie Herold: Disciplinary and the history of ideas. In: Dolf-Bonekämper / Million / Pahl-Weber: Das Hobrechtsche Berlin. ISBN 978-3-86922-529-6 , p. 109.