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Johann Friedrich Knöbel (Dresden , 14 June 1724 – Dresden , 26 September 1792) was a German architect active mainly in Dresden and Warsaw. He was a representative of the Saxon Baroque style and further developed this style in Warsaw.
Biography
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Knöbel was born on 14 June 1724 (according to other sources he was born on 10 or 11 June and baptised on 14 June). From 1739 he was a pupil of Johann Christoph Knöffel and, later, also of Zacharias Longuelune. In 1750 he obtained the post of director at the Oberbauamt in Dresden. Around the same time he married Christiana Charlotta; his eldest son Julius Friedrich Knöbel was born in Dresden in 1753.
In 1753 Knöbel went to Warsaw as a master builder.[1] There he initially worked with the then director of the Polish-Saxon building authority in Warsaw, Joachim Daniel von Jauch. After Jauch's death in 1755, he took over his post.
One of Knöbel's most important clients was Heinrich von Brühl, for whom he carried out alterations to the Brühl town palace and built the rural palace in Młociny. He was also responsible for the construction of the Laurentius Church in the Warsaw district of Wola. In 1765 Knöbel returned to Dresden. There he became royal architect and master builder. He influenced the architectural design of many buildings, and designed the Dresden Gewandhaus building together with Johann George Schmidt.
See also
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[edit]- Wikimedia Commons has images or other files about Jan Fryderyk Knöbel
References
[edit]- ^ Ekhart Berckenhagen, Architektenzeichnungen, 1479–1979: von 400 europäischen und amerikanischen Architekten aus dem Bestand der Bibliothek Berlin. Catalog zur Ausstellung in der Sonderausstellungshalle der Staatlichen Museen in Berlin-Dahlem 1979 sowie zur Ausstellung im Kunstgewerbemuseum Köln (Overstolzenhaus)1980, Band 84 der Veröffentlichungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin , Die Bibliothek, 1980