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Johann Michael Knapp

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Johann Michael Knapp; by Eduard Magnus (1834)

Johann Michael Knapp (10 March 1791, Stuttgart - 22 October 1861, Stuttgart) was a German court architect in Württemburg.

Biography

His father, also named Johann Michael, originally came from Ditzingen and was a Master baker. His mother, Elisabetha, née Bauder was from Waiblingen. From 1808 to 1809, he attended the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe ( now part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). After 1815, he pursued his artistic studies with Johann Heinrich von Dannecker. This was followed by an apprenticeship in Milan (1818).

The Casa Tarpeia

He lived in Rome from 1819 to 1840. There, he was a member of the local Deutscher Künstlerverein [de], also known as the "Ponte Molle Society". He continued to design projects for his hometown. In 1820, together with Giovanni Salucci, he drew the construction plans for the Württemberg Mausoleum; on commission from Queen Katharina Pawlowna.

A trip to Naples in 1821 took him to Pompeii. Later, from 1829 to 1832, he worked on researching and illustrating ancient Etruscan and Hellenistic monuments in Italy and Sicily. He was named a member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon in 1840. That same year, he accepted an appointment as Court Architect in Württemberg and returned home.

In 1843, he and Johann Gottfried Gutensohn [de] published Denkmale der christlichen Religion oder Sammlung der christlichen Kirchen Roms. Rom 1822–27. Auch: Die Basiliken des christlichen Roms. Mit 50 Kupfertafeln (Monuments of the Christian Religion in Rome).

He married Josephine Sofie Haag in 1837. They were divorced in 1849.[1]

Major works

Draft design for the Jubilee Column

References

  1. ^ Eberhard Fritz: Herr und Frau Hofbaumeister. Bemerkungen zum Schicksal des Ehepaares Johann Michael und Sophia Knapp. In: Backnanger Jahrbuch 1996, S. 47–50.

Further reading

  • Barbara Wohlgemuth (1980), "Knapp, Johann Michael", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 12, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 155–156; (full text online)
  • Gotthard Reinhold: Johann Michael Knapp (1791–1861). Eine Studie über Leben, Werk und Nachlaß des Stuttgarter Hofbaumeisters. Backnang 1994 ISBN 978-3-927713-09-3

External links

Media related to Johann Michael Knapp at Wikimedia Commons

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