Heinrich Strack

Johann Heinrich Strack ( born July 6, 1805 in Biickeburg, † June 13, 1880 in Berlin, sometimes Heinrich Strack ) was a German architect Schinkel school.

Life

Johann Heinrich Strack was born in Biickeburg the son of the portrait and Vedutenmalers Anton Wilhelm Strack (1758-1829) on 6 July 1805. His mother was born as a table leg, a sister, inter alia, by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder ..

Between 1824 and 1838, studied and qualified Strack at the Berlin Building Academy and the Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1825 surveyor exam in 1827 the construction Kondukteurprüfung and 1837/38 the builders test qualification for land, water and roads inspector. In the years 1825-1832 Strack worked in the studio of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the interior of the accommodation for the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Palace in Berlin, and from 1827 to 1832 under Friedrich August Stiller in the reconstruction of the palace of Prince Karl. His first independent work was 1829/30 the construction management at the reconstruction of the palace of Prince Albrecht. Cooperation with Stiller developed into friendship and both took trips to Saint Petersburg, England and France.

In 1841 Strack was appointed professor at the Art Academy, where he worked as a teacher of architecture since 1839. In 1842 Strack entered the Hofbauamt as a Hofbauinspektor, 1875 where he reached the rank of Privy Oberhof Commissioner of City Planning. Strack was there mainly engaged in the service of the heir to the throne Prince William of Prussia. His duties also included designs of interiors and furniture. In 1850 he became a member of the newly established Technical Baudeputation. 1854 he was appointed professor at the Berlin Academy of Architecture as a successor Stüler.

Strack taught William's son Frederick in drawing and had accompanied him 1853/54 on a trip to Italy. Excavations in Athens Strack, Ernst Curtius and Karl Boetticher in 1862 discovered at the foot of the Acropolis, the remains of the Dionysos Theatre. Strack emerged as an architectural writer and accepted orders private developers. For August Borsig he built the house in Moabit, and for his son Albert, the new buildings of the engineering works on the road street in Berlin.

In the fifty years of creative Strack, Berlin changed from a Biedermeier residence of the German industrial, commercial and transportation hub, with completely new construction jobs created. Remained Destined for Strack classical antiquity, preserved and further developed through the ideas Schinkel. Strack preferred a pavilion-like order and graduation of the connected or Arcadian linearized with colonnaded building, which he carefully weighed, distinguished in sensation, petite and delicately endowed. The style development to historicism he performed with only a few churches and in Babelsberg, with the aims of Schinkel, in the form of the Gothic Revival. The change of European architecture for neo-Renaissance to Neo-Baroque and Neo-Rococo, with its eclectic digressions he refused. In the judgment of posterity was Strack's work over the Schinkel, haunts him as faded and powerless.

As Strack 1876 retired, Kaiser Wilhelm I appointed him as the " architect of the Emperor ". Strack's tomb on the Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery in Berlin, participated in its execution Reinhold Persius and Julius Emmerich, arose after the draft of his nephew Johann Heinrich Strack of this year. It has the form of a shrine. It contains his portrait bust of Alexander Calandrelli. Was modeled on the tomb created by the deceased for August Borsig in the same cemetery. The Berlin Gartendenkmalpflege redeveloped in the 1990s and early 2000s Strack grave, reconstructed the lost wrought iron grill, stored away the bust and replaced it with a copy.

Buildings (selection)

Publications

  • Architectonische monuments of the Altmark Brandenburg, Berlin 1833 ( with FE Meyer home and a text by Kugler )
  • Architectural album. Redigirt by architect -Verein zu Berlin by Stiller, garlic, Strack, five booklets in several editions until 1855, Riegel, Berlin and Potsdam. Among them:
  • Architectural album. A collection of building designs with special attention to the details and constructions. First Issue: Draft Local Society of the railway system of St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk by Stiller and Strack, publisher of Ferdinand bars, Potsdam 1838
  • In ancient Greek theater building, Potsdam 1843
  • Babelsberg Palace, Berlin 1857 ( with M. Gottgetreu )
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