Jan Bouman
January Bouman, Johann Bouman [ the Elder ] ( born August 28, 1706 Amsterdam, † September 6, 1776 in Berlin) was an immigrant from the Netherlands to Prussia builder. His most famous work is the main building of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Life
Bouman was the son of the carpenter Michiel Bouman (* 1670, † after 1732) born. Approx. 1722 to 1730, he received training as a master carpenter with the authorization to independently build houses. In 1732 he married Anna Johanna van Lohuijsen in Amsterdam ( 1713-1769 ).
Potsdam
In the same year he was appointed to Potsdam to build there in the royal order, inter alia, the Dutch Quarter. He was accompanied by his brother Dirck ( Dietrich; * September 11, 1713, † February 10, 1776 in Potsdam), who was also a master carpenter. Approx. 1735 was succeeded by his brother Abraham (* February 25, 1709 in Amsterdam, † by 1741 in Potsdam), who settled as a goldsmith in Potsdam. Dircks daughter from his second marriage, Maria Catharina (1760-1813), was Johann Jacob Krutisch ( born January 16, 1749 Hochstedt, Hesse -Kassel, † November 20, 1817 in Potsdam) married, the 1773-1817 Hofgärtner of Sanssouci Melonerie was.
January Bouman was appointed Schlosskastellan and was housed in the Stadtschloss. After the accession of King Frederick II, Jan Bouman could not save her orders. 1747-50 he created after the demolition of the old Berlin Cathedral, a new Domgebäude on the Spree side of the Berlin Lustgarten and renewed the building of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Between 1748 and 1753 he erected in Berlin for Prince Henry of Prussia, a palace, which now houses the main building of the Humboldt University. From January 1748 Bouman served as Chief Planning in Potsdam " Baucomtoir " the royal buildings. In Potsdam in 1752 he created the Berliner Tor, 1752/53, the Frederick Church in the weavers' quarter and in 1753 the Old Town Hall.
Berlin
1755 appointed him the King Oberbaudirektor for its construction projects in Berlin and Potsdam, to which he moved to Berlin. Planning Director Bouman lived on the corner of French and Markgrafenstraße. Friedrich Nicolai wrote that he had a nice collection Malereyen. After 1763, he expanded the Schönhausen Palace, the summer residence of the Prussian queen. His last major commission was the construction of the St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, which he completed 1770-73 to a design by Jean Laurent Legeay.
About Jan Bouman six children from his first marriage - whose family names were changed - were Michael Philip Bouman and Georg Friedrich von Bouman (* November 27, 1737, † 1812 or 1817), which was after artillery colonel builder and architect, briefly in the footsteps of his father Chief Planning and was knighted in 1801. The philologist and writer Ludwig von Bouman (1801-1871) was his son. Bouman married January 1772 in Berlin to his second wife Maria Louisa Elizabeth Donner ( born August 28, 1706 Amsterdam), the merchant's Konrad Heinrich Gottfried thunder widow. At the age of 70 years Jan Bouman died on September 6, 1776 in Berlin and was buried in a vault of the parish church page.
Style
Even if Boumans late Baroque style is a distinctive sobriety and rigor, he was another architect such as Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff equal. Many of Knobelsdorffs designs were realized by Jan Bouman.
There is a Jan Bouman House in Potsdam in the Dutch Quarter, the ( 1735 ) is available to the public as a museum because of its large stock of original building fabric. Where the exhibition was "300 Years Jan Bouman " In the fall of 2006.