Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll

Michael Gottlieb Birkner Bindesbøll ( born September 5, 1800 Ledøje on Zealand; † July 14, 1856 in Copenhagen, according to another source in Frederiksberg) was a Danish architect, construction officer, Mr and briefly professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Life

Gottlieb Bindesbøll should initially learn and practice a craft. After it shaped the buildings of Caspar Frederik Harsdorff in the " purest classicism " running from early in youth, he went to 1822/1823 on a study tour of Germany and France. In France he met Franz Christian Gau know who pointed him in particular to the ancient architecture and the sunken city of Pompeii. This is followed, he graduated from a degree in architecture at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen. As a result Bindesbøll settled in Copenhagen as an architect down. In 1833 he received the C. F. Hansen medal. From 1834 to 1838 Bindesbøll then embarked on a second study tour that took him to Pompeii and Greece, where he more fully dealt with the ancient architecture. He already developed the first studies for the Thorvaldsen Museum in honor of Bertel Thorvaldsen. The over the period of nearly a decade finished building is his main work dar. With the completion of the museum, he joined in 1847 a job as a building inspector in the belonging to Denmark Duchy of Holstein, where he moved in the same position in 1849 to Jutland before 1851 returned to Copenhagen. In the year of his death he was still the reputation of a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The one in the front desk looked at as a reformer of the Danish Architecture Bindesbøll had a great decorative gift. His work was for the development of Danish art from just such influence. And, although he practically no own students trained. He used repeatedly stylistic characteristics of older designs. From the Renaissance at the town halls in Thisted and webs or Gothic ( Church in Hobro ). For the upgrade of the resort Klampenborg at Copenhagen in 1844, he translated the English cottage style into Danish. 1849-1854 he had designed for the railway line Flensburg- Husum - Tonning several reception building, most of which are still preserved in Husum and Schwesing, while the 1855 was put into operation first building of Flensburg station in 1886 replaced by a succession to John Otzen.

His son Thorvald Bindesbøll also studied architecture. In addition to numerous villas and its prestigious as the main work pencils for " postal and telegraph officer " and " sailors " in Copenhagen who became known as artisans importance.

Works

In addition to attempting the buildings Bindesbøll was nonetheless a draft implements, grave monuments and other small objects.