Ivan Rerberg

Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg (Russian: Иван Иванович Рерберг; * 22 Septemberjul / October 4 1869greg in Moscow, .. † October 15, 1932 ) was a Russian architect and engineer, created a number of famous buildings in Moscow in the early 20th century has.

Life

Rerberg was born in Moscow, the son of the railway engineer Ivan Fyodorovich Rerberg. The latter was one of the descendants of a Danish shipbuilder, who was brought here during the reign of Peter the Great of Russia after this.

Ivan Rerberg graduated from a military school and then studied until 1896 in Saint Petersburg, at the Academy of Military Engineering. After engineering degree Rerberg first went to Kharkiv and was involved there in the construction of the railway wagon factory (today Malyshev plant). He learned methods of modern architecture, which allowed him to participate from 1897 to 1912 as one of the helpers of the architect Roman Klein in the construction of Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Here Rerberg designed for the museum building including the heating and ventilation system, which proved to be very efficient.

Even before completion of the Pushkin Museum had Ivan Rerberg together with retail on several other projects, including 1904, the reconstruction work on the ring and from 1907 to 1908 in the construction of the department store Muir & Mirrielees (today TO, right opposite the building of the Bolshoi Theatre located ). At about the same time began Rerberg to configure individual buildings independently. In addition to several residential and industrial buildings include the former building of the insurance company Nord (1909-1911) in the Moscow center on the Iljinka road to the most famous early works Rerbergs. The neoclassical embossed five-story building now serves as the seat of the Russian Constitutional Court.

Characteristic of many buildings designed by Rerberg is not only of belonging to the later classicism which was still widespread in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but also the use of for that time of new construction technologies and materials, including reinforced concrete. 1911 called the journal Architectural Well Moskwa Rerberg a " relatively young, but very popular builder " and praised his ability to use new building materials in terms of their architectural form creation potential sent.

From 1906 to 1919 Rerberg worked as a professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as well as at the Moscow School of Engineering. During this time he also worked on the draft of his most famous construction project: the building complex of the Kiev railway station in the west of the city. The construction of the new station, which is a railhead starting point of a major railway connection of Moscow to the Ukraine and South Eastern Europe, lasted from 1914 to 1917. There is also the neoclassicism attributable reception building was designed by Rerberg, while at the same time built arched glass roof of the train shed a work the famous engineer Vladimir Shukhov is.

After the resurgence of construction in Moscow after the Russian Civil War Rerberg still working in the 1920s at several other major projects in the capital of the newly collected Soviet Union Moscow. Mention should be made, especially the for the former Russia architecturally innovative buildings of the Central Telegraph on Tverskaya Street, which is to be assigned with its dominated by concrete and glass facades no longer the neo-classicism, but the so-called constructivism Rerbergs late works. 1930 designed Rerberg on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin, a new building of the First Military School of the Red Army, now as an administrative building of the Moscow Kremlin, or as building 14 known. Stylistically, this building was approximated back to the classicism with individual allusions to the adjacent Senate Palace, which, however, appears to be rather inappropriate in predominantly early modern ensemble of the Kremlin. Was completed the building in 1934, after the death Rerbergs.

The former building of the insurance company North

Reception building of the Kiev railway station

Building 14 in the Kremlin