Martin Gropius

Martin Gropius ( born August 11, 1824 in Berlin, † December 13, 1880 ibid; Complete name: Martin Carl Philipp Gropius ) was a German architect.

His great- nephew is the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.

Life

Gropius had been chosen as a boy Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a model and also wanted to become an architect. He received his education at the Royal Institute Commercial in Berlin in 1003, which had been founded in 1821 by Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth as Royal Technical Institute. The later than Gewerbeakademie designated institution thus belongs together with the Berlin Academy of Architecture of the forerunners of the later Technical University of Berlin: 525

Through his teacher Karl Boetticher, the author of the work tectonics of the Hellenes, Gropius was familiar with the Greek idiom, which he transferred to modifying his buildings. He first designed apartment buildings, villas and country houses that were all in the tradition and classicism of Schinkel. His representative buildings are committed to this idea. His last work, the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin ( now called the Martin -Gropius -Bau), was built in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

From 1865 he formed together with Heino forging the partnership Gropius & forging. From 1869 until his death in 1880 was Gropius director of the educational institution of the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin, a forerunner of today's University of the Arts Berlin.

Gropius ' mortal remains rest in the cemetery of Trinity Church II at the Bergmann Strasse in Berlin -Kreuzberg. The grave system in the form of a pergola was built to designs by Gropius himself and by Heinrich Strack. A sandstone relief on the grave wall comes from the sculptor Rudolf Siemering.

Work

Buildings and designs

In addition to prestigious buildings, such as various new buildings of the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel and the concert hall in Leipzig, many clinics and hospitals were built according to designs by Martin Gropius mainly in Berlin and Brandenburg.

  • , Completed Brandenburg Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Neustadt- Eberswalde, called " Martin Gropius hospital " today in 1865
  • Palais Ungern- Sternberg in Reval (Tallinn ) (1865 ), now houses the Estonian Academy of Sciences
  • Hospital in Friedrichshain in Berlin- Friedrichshain (1868-1874), together with Heino forging
  • Hospital in Wiesbaden
  • Main building of the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel (1873-1876)
  • Military hospital in Berlin- Tempelhof (1875-1877)
  • Mansion in Neuruppin Gentzrode (1876-1877)
  • Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin- Kreuzberg (1877-1881), together with Heino forging, called since 1980 the Martin-Gropius -Bau
  • Main building of the former University Hospital in Berlin (1879-1883), together with Heino forging
  • Konzerthaus "New Gewandhaus " in Leipzig (1882-1884), executed after Gropius ' death by Heino forging
  • Old university library of the University of Greifswald
  • Military hospital in Koblenz- Ehrenbreitstein today Gen. " Martin- Gropius-Bau Koblenz " (1878), together with Heino forging
  • Administrative building of the Royal Prussian Bergwerksdirektion Saarbrücken (1877-1880), largely preserved original, significant loss of substance, however, occurred through the conversion and integration into the adjacent shopping center Europa-Galerie by ECE Project Management

After Gropius ' designs also many houses and villas in and around Berlin were built. Among other things:

Mansion in Neuruppin Gentzrode

Facade detail of the manor

Window detail of the manor

Zoological Museum of the University of Kiel

Zoological Museum of the University of Kiel

Bergwerksdirektion Saarbrücken

University Library of Greifswald

Writings

  • The provincial lunatic institution to Neustadt- Eberswalde. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1869.
  • As editor: Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Decoration of inner spaces. ( eight leaves ) Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1874.
  • The Municipal General Hospital in Friedrichshain, Berlin. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1876.
  • With Heino forging: Decoration of inner spaces. ( three volumes ) Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1877.
  • German Commercial Museum Berlin ( ed.), Martin Gropius (ed. ): Archives for decorative arts. ( with explanatory text by L. Lohde ) Winkelmann Springer, Berlin 1870/1871.

Honors

Honorary grave of Berlin on the Trinity Cemetery II, Bergmannstr. 39-41 ( grave Appendix C - W.S. -6 -9).

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