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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Georg_Moller > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Georg_Moller.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Moller > Source revision: 1294741260 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox architect | name = Georg Moller | image = Georg Moller circular portrait.jpg | caption = Georg Moller, prior to 1852 | birth_date = {{birth date|1784|01|21|df=y}} | birth_place = [Diepholz](/source/Diepholz), [Holy Roman Empire](/source/Holy_Roman_Empire) | death_date = {{death date and age|1852|03|13|1784|01|21|df=y}} | death_place = [Darmstadt](/source/Darmstadt), [Grand Duchy of Hesse](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Hesse) | significant_buildings = {{plainlist| * [Staatstheater Mainz](/source/Staatstheater_Mainz) * [Stadtschloss Wiesbaden](/source/Stadtschloss_Wiesbaden) * [Landestheater Darmstadt](/source/Landestheater_Darmstadt) * }} }} '''Georg Moller''' (21 January 1784 – 13 March 1852) was an architect and a town planner who worked in the South of Germany, mostly in the region today known as [Hessen](/source/Hessen). == Life and family background == Moller was born in [Diepholz](/source/Diepholz), a descendant of an old Norwegian family of clergy, who were known in the 17th century for publishing protestant songbooks. His father, Levin Adolf Moller, grew up in Westphalia and became a notary in Celle, and from 1777 worked as an advocate and [attorney-at-law](/source/attorney-at-law) in Diepholz. Moller's mother, Elisabeth von Castelmur, originated in an old Swiss family of nobility from the [Upper Engadin](/source/Engadin) district of [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland). Therefore, Moller grew up in a well-situated family. In 1800, after finishing secondary school Moller began studying architecture with Christian Ludwig Witte in Hannover. Here he was introduced to [Friedrich Weinbrenner](/source/Friedrich_Weinbrenner) whom he followed to Karlsruhe in 1802, to continue studies at a school for building trades. During the years 1807–1809 Moller took a study trip to Rome where he gained crucial insight from members of the Roman colony of German artists. After finishing this journey he became a construction superintendent in 1810 and was hired as court master builder of the [Grand Duchy of Hesse](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Hesse). Among his major works in this capacity are {{ill|St. Ludwig (Darmstadt)|lt=St. Ludwig|de}}, the first Roman Catholic church building in [Darmstadt](/source/Darmstadt) since the [Reformation](/source/Protestant_Reformation) — a building whose forms were inspired by the [Pantheon](/source/Pantheon%2C_Rome) in Rome – the former [Landestheater](/source/Landestheater_Darmstadt), the [Luisenplatz](/source/Luisenplatz_(Darmstadt)) and the Masonic Lodge, what today is the "Moller-Haus". Furthermore, he designed the [Staatstheater Mainz](/source/Staatstheater_Mainz), which created a stir because of its semicircular facade, and the [Stadtschloss Wiesbaden](/source/Stadtschloss_Wiesbaden) of the [Dukes of Nassau](/source/House_of_Nassau), today the seat of the [Landtag of Hesse](/source/Landtag_of_Hesse). From 1843 to 1847 Moller was commissioned by [Grand-Duke](/source/Grand-Duke) [Ludwig II.](/source/Louis_II%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse) to overview the restoration of [Schloss Biedenkopf](/source/Schloss_Biedenkopf). Only two of Georg Moller's major works survived the second world war without damages: the grand-ducal mausoleum at the {{ill|Park Rosenhöhe|lt=Rosenhöhe|de}} and the Ludwigsmonument on the Luisenplatz, both of them in Darmstadt. The other buildings Moller designed were damaged beyond repair or were reconstructed in a more simple design. Moller was also responsible for the reconstruction of the castles in [Bad Homburg](/source/Bad_Homburg) and [Meisenheim](/source/Meisenheim), the latter called Wolfgangsbau, for the [Landgrave](/source/Landgrave) of [Hesse-Homburg](/source/Hesse-Homburg). He also worked for prince [Klemens von Metternich](/source/Klemens_von_Metternich), redesigning his castle [Schloss Johannisberg](/source/Schloss_Johannisberg). He worked in [Hannover](/source/Hannover) as well. Moller is considered, along with [Karl Friedrich Schinkel](/source/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel) and [Leo von Klenze](/source/Leo_von_Klenze), to be one of the most important German architects working in the Greek Revival and [Romanticist](/source/Romanticism) styles.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} His ingenuity as an engineer and when working space is most evident in the Ludwigskirche in Darmstadt. Aside his work as an architect Moller was successful as a preserver of buildings. He was at least partly responsible for preserving the Carolingian [Torhalle](/source/Torhalle_Lorsch) in [Lorsch](/source/Lorsch), which today is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Moller in 1818 convinced the Grand-Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt to edict the first ordinance of preservation of ancient buildings, the first law concerning the protection of historic buildings in Germany. thumb|320px|South Elevation of the Katharinenkirche, Oppenheim. From: ''Denkmähler der deutschen Baukunst'' Moller was also well-known for his writings on architecture. His book ''Denkmähler der Deutschen Baukunst'' ("Milestones in German architecture"; 1815–1851){{cite book |last1=Moller |first1=Georg |last2=Gladbach |first2=Ernst |title=Denkmähler der deutschen Baukunst |date=1815–1844 |publisher=Heyer und Leske |location=Darmstadt}} [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/moller1821bd1/0016 Volume 1]; [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/moller1825bd2_1/0001 Volume 2 Part 1]; [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/moller1828bd2_2/0001 Volume 2 Part 2]; [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/moller1831bd2_3/0001 Volume 2 Part 3]; [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/moller1844bd3/0001 Volume 3]. covered buildings from [Lorsch](/source/Lorsch_Abbey) (founded 764) to [Oppenheim](/source/Katharinenkirche%2C_Oppenheim) (14th century). The work is notable both for its scholarship and for the quality of its illustrations. He was one of the first to take a stylistic approach to dating of buildings rather than accepting all recorded dates.{{cite book|first1=Nikolaus |last1=Pevsner|title=Some Architectural Writers of the Nineteenth Century|year=1972|pages=23–24 |publisher=Oxford University Press Press|isbn=978-0-19-817315-1}} An English translation of the text was published in 1836.{{cite book|first1=Georg |last1=Moller|first2=William Henry |last2=Leeds|title=Moller's Memorials of German-Gothic Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTsuAAAAYAAJ|year=1836|publisher=J. Weale}} He also wrote ''Beiträge zu der Lehre von den Konstruktionen'' ("Contributions to knowledge on construction"; 1833–1844). Moller also played an important role for the completion of [Cologne Cathedral](/source/Cologne_Cathedral). It was he who discovered one half of the original {{convert|13.25|ft|m}} facade drawing by cathedral masterbuilder Arnold in an attic near Darmstadt, while the other half was found by [Sulpiz Boisserée](/source/Sulpiz_Boisser%C3%A9e) in Paris in 1816. The uncompleted cathedral was completed in accordance with these designs. Moller died in Darmstadt, aged 68. == Architects Georg Moller educated == * [Rudolf Wiegmann](/source/Rudolf_Wiegmann) * [Gottfried Bandhauer](/source/Gottfried_Bandhauer) (possible) == Gallery == File:Ludwigsmonument-3.jpg|Ludwigsmonument in Darmstadt File:Opper-darmstadt-ludwigskirche1.jpg|Ludwigskirche in Darmstadt File:Haus der Geschichte-Darmstadt.jpg|House of History, Darmstadt File:Wiesbaden Hessische Landtag.jpg|[Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden](/source/Stadtschloss%2C_Wiesbaden) File:Mainz staatstheater 1903.jpg|[Staatstheater Mainz](/source/Staatstheater_Mainz) == Literature == {{reflist}} * {{NDB|17|742|744|Moller, Georg|Reinhard Wegner}} * Bernd Krimmel: ''Darmstadt in der Zeit des Klassizismus und der Romantik''. Hess. Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, 1979 * Eckhart G. Franz: ''Georg Moller''. Hess. Staatsarchiv Darmstadt * {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Moller, Georg|year=1905}} == External links == {{commons category}} * {{DNB portal|118734563|TYP=}} * {{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Moller, Georg |short=x}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Georg}} Category:1784 births Category:1852 deaths Category:People from Diepholz Category:19th-century German architects Category:Greek Revival architects --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Georg Moller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Moller) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Moller?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.