Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer

Gottlob Friedrich Thor Meyer ( born October 23, 1775 in Dresden, † February 11, 1842 ) was a German architect of Neoclassicism and royal Saxon construction officer, Mr.

Life

Gottlob Friedrich Thor Meyer was born one of seven children of Gottlob Friedrich Meyer Thor and Christiane Regina Strong born in Dresden. Thor Meyer studied painting at the Dresden Art Academy under Giovanni Battista Casanova, but soon switched to architecture, where Friedrich August Gottlob August Krubsacius and woods were his teachers. In 1812 he was appointed royal court architect.

In 1814 he built in Dresden, the staircase to Brühl's Terrace, a monument in honor of Jean -Victor Moreau on the Räcknitz - height, and the gatehouses at the main avenue in the Great Garden. Thor Meyer was a member of the Demolitionskommission who took care of the softening of Dresden. The designs of the buildings of the Trinity cemetery and the St. Anne's Church come from him. After his designs also left the club "Harmony " a hall in the Palais Brühl in the Schiessgasse 10 install.

Great merits Thor Meyer earned the reconstruction of Bischofswerda after the great fire of 1813. According to plans Thor Meyers the grave monument to the poet of freedom wars, Theodor Körner, was built and officially opened on September 23, 1814 at the cemetery in Wöbbelin. In 1826 he delivered the plans for the department stores on Antonplatz. In 1827 he erected on behalf of the Saxon state on the bastion, the first massive building in the Swiss style. For Tharandt and Radeberg he designed bathhouses.

From 1827 to 1829 Thor Meyer created two gatehouses at the Leipzig gate at the former city wall of Old Dresden. One of those built in the classical style building still stands at the northwest side of the palace square today. In 1825 he built the house in the Antonstraße 8 Thor Meyer also built tenement houses, the house in the polishing process line 19

Gottlob Friedrich Thor Meyer was a member of the Dresden Masonic Lodge to three swords and Astraea for greening diamond. He died in 1842 in Dresden. His grave is in the local cemetery Elias.

Works (selection)

• Description of the garden creators with special reference to the wood species retained therein. Berlin 1799 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43346

Pictures

Staircase Brühl's Terrace in Dresden

City Hall in Bischofswerda

Christ Church in Bischofswerda

Akzisehaus / gatehouse at the Dresden Palace Square

Same view, drawn by Thor Meyer

Dresden, drawn by Thor Meyer

Drawn arcades on Anton Place, Thor Meyer