Johann Poppe
Johann Georg Poppe ( born September 12, 1837 in Bremen, † 18 August 1915 Lesum ) was a German architect, he is regarded as the most famous creator of architectural historicism in Bremen.
Life
Poppe was the son of a master carpenter and architect. He studied from 1855 to 1859 architecture at the Polytechnic of Karlsruhe. From 1860 to 1861, he first worked as an architect in Berlin, from 1863 in Bremen. His architectural work is characterized by lush historicist style variety, with a special fondness for the Neo-Renaissance, which evolved from his travels to France and Italy.
In Bremen Poppe built numerous villas and country houses, especially in Horn and Upper territory. 1875 was Castle Knoop in the Vahr that as of 1888 as a castle was Kreyenfeld Horst owned by Rickmers family and was demolished in 1912. He became known through his representative large buildings such as the waterworks in the city of Werder (1873 ), the buildings for the North West German trade and industry exhibition in 1890, the Bremen Cotton Exchange (1902 ) or the headquarters of the North German Lloyd ( 1907-1912 ). In addition, he designed the interiors of several Lloyd ships, mostly carried out by the renowned company from Mainz A. Bembe, including the then temporarily fastest Atlantic steamer in the world, in 1903, commissioned in Kaiser Wilhelm II, he served as city master carpenter in 1883 the transformation of the upper hall of the Bremen Town Hall and designed in 1903 the lush town hall stalls so. Only a few of his buildings are still preserved.
At the Villa Ichon in Bremen, which he had rebuilt and inhabited long, an oil painting of him is to be seen. His Bremer Baroque was not without controversy, the architecture critic Walter Müller- Wulckow wrote, for example, about the designed by Poppe Bremen Cotton Exchange, "The Bremen Cotton Exchange is the most glaring example of this kind, down rushed slaying of their shape abundance shortly after the completion flaking ornaments passers have shown, and in this grotesque manner, the cancer damage our building practices. "
Other architects broke with its Art Nouveau architecture, or by the reform influenced buildings from Poppe's style. Poppe retired to his estate Poppenhof on the right bank of Lesum in Lesum.
Poppe was on the Rien Berger Cemetery in Bremen buried (Plan V square, on the corner of the grid squares F and G).