Carl von Gontard

Carl Philipp Christian von Gontard ( born January 13, 1731 in Mannheim, † September 23, 1791 in Breslau) was a German architect who worked mainly in Potsdam, Berlin and Bayreuth. Gontard work is the history of architecture independently without succession between the Palladian Rococo Knobelsdorffs and the classicism of the older and younger Gilly and their students.

Life

Gontard Carl came from the Huguenot family Gontard from the Dauphiné. His parents were Alexander von Gontard (1706-1747) and his wife Elizabeth Short († 1776). His father was a 1741 ballet master margravial theater. He was married to Sophia of Erckert and had numerous children, including the Berlin honorary citizen Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gontard. After two years of study in Paris with Blondel and a longer trip to Italy he had already made as court architect of the Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth a name, as from Brandenburg -Bayreuth hardly provided more tasks after the death of the Margrave Friedrich because of the austerity policies of the successor Friedrich Christian.

Gontard entered 1764 in the service of Frederick II of Prussia, immediately to design the New Palace and the associated communs, his first major work in Potsdam, heranzog him. In 1767 Emperor Joseph II raised him to the hereditary peerage. Gontard's main plant in Berlin, the pillars porches and towers of the Germans and the French Cathedral, Gendarmenmarkt, gave his face. However, taking over after the spectacular collapse of part of the German Cathedral in July 1781 Georg Christian Unger completion of the building. Johann Gottfried Schadow, then apprentice at the court sculptor Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert, was commissioned by them to draw the state immediately after the collapse. This drawing Schadow has been preserved and not only as a work of art, but even more so by the time the document important. Gontard did not fall from grace but kept the construction management of the Royal Library. His last work was the Dutch establishment in New Garden Potsdam.

Works

  • Town houses
  • Castles in Bayreuth
  • Many residential buildings in Bayreuth, eg Hofapotheke, own house (now the rectory of the Castle Church ), Potsdam and Berlin
  • Immediatbauten such as the military orphanage in Potsdam
  • Towers of the Germans and the French Cathedral in Berlin
  • Rosenthaler Gate in Berlin
  • Colonnades in Berlin as the 1776 built Spittelkolonnaden and the
  • 1777-1780 incurred king colonnades
Wrocław Andrea Palladio David Gilly Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Nobility Neue Kirche, Berlin Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert New Garden, Potsdam Temple of Friendship Antique Temple Brandenburg Gate (Potsdam) Bindlach Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Neue Deutsche Biographie Zeno.org Integrated Authority File
165850
de