Friedrich Gilly
Friedrich David Gilly (16 February 1772 – 3 August 1800) was a German architect and the son of the architect David Gilly. His works are influenced by revolutionary architecture (Revolutionsarchitektur). Friedrich Gilly was born in Altdamm, Pomerania, (today Dąbie, district of Szczecin, Poland), Gilly was known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
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Friedrich Gilly

Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758 - 1828), Maler, Foto vom Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger · https: recherche.smb.museum/detail/965011/bildnis-des-architekten-friedrich-gilly · CC0
- Name
- Friedrich Gilly
- Birth Name
- Friedrich David Gilly
- Birthplace
- Altdamm, Pomerania
- Died
- 3 August 1800
- Place of death
- Karlsbad
- Occupation
- architect
- Born
- 1772
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
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Friedrich David Gilly (16 February 1772 – 3 August 1800) was a German architect and the son of the architect David Gilly. His works are influenced by revolutionary architecture (Revolutionsarchitektur). Friedrich Gilly was born in Altdamm, Pomerania, (today Dąbie, district of Szczecin, Poland), Gilly was known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
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Biography
Biography
In 1788 he enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Berlin. His teachers in architecture were Friedrich Becherer and Carl Gotthard Langhans. Gilly enjoyed drawing lessons with Christian Bernhard Rode, Johann Christoph Frisch, Johann Heinrich Meil, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki and Johann Gottfried Schadow. In the practical part, he was taught by Carl Gotthard Langhans, Michael Philipp Boumann and Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff. He was first employed by the Oberhofbauamt in 1789, and worked for a time with Bernhard Matthias Brasch on the reconstruction of Neuruppin. In 1797, Gilly travelled extensively in France, England, and Austria. The drawings he made in France reveal his interests in architecture and reflect the intellectual climate of the Directoire. They include views of the Fountain of Regeneration, the Rue des Colonnes—an arcaded street of baseless Doric columns leading to the Théâtre Feydeau—the chamber of the Conseil des Anciens in the Tuileries and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s grotto in its landscaped setting at Ermenonville, Oise. His 1797, design for the Frederick II monument reveals his debt to French neoclassicism, in particular Etienne-Louis Boullée. His explanatory notes indicate that he intended the building to be spiritually uplifting. The plan for the monument is currently part of the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. From 1799, Schinkel lived in the Gilly household at Berlin and was taught by Friedrich and Friedrich's architect father David Gilly. Gilly was appointed professor at the Berlin Bauakademie at the age of 26. Gilly died from tuberculosis at the age of 28 in Karlsbad, where he was buried in the cemetery of Andreaskapelle. • Illustration — Perspektivisches Studienblatt 1798 • Illustration — Gilly's plan for a monument to Frederick II of Prussia, Berlin, 1797 • Illustration — Friedrich Gilly. Bust by Gottfried Schadow

Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800)
Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1899, S. 171

Drawing of a bridge near Hof on the river Saale by Friedrich Gilly. The drawing is drawn on a handmade, paper with web shadow, which was dyed blue. On the website the CC BY-NC-SA license is indicated, but no new rights can be claimed to a work where the copyright has expired, even for a simple scan, which is not a new creative creation. It is possible that this is the Lower Stone Bridge in Hof (Sa
Friedrich Gilly (16.2.1772 - 3.8.1800, Zeichner) Scan von Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · https
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Friedrich Gilly • Birth Name — Friedrich David Gilly • Birthplace — Altdamm, Pomerania • Died — 3 August 1800 • Place of death — Karlsbad • Occupation — architect
In English
In English
• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799. Introduction by Fritz Neumeyer. Translation by David Britt. 1994, 240 pages. • Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2018, S. 937 ff.,.
In German
In German
• F[riedrich] Adler: Friedrich Gilly – Schinkel's Lehrer, in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Jg. 1, 1881, Hefte 1–3 (Digitalisat). • Cord-Friedrich Berghahn: Das Wagnis der Autonomie. Studien zu Karl Philipp Moritz, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Heinrich Gentz, Friedrich Gilly und Ludwig Tieck. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2012,. • Michael Bollé, María Ocón Fernández: Die Büchersammlung Friedrich Gillys (1772–1800). Provenienz und Schicksal einer Architektenbibliothek im theoretischen Kontext des 18. Jahrhunderts. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2019.. • Sabine Bock: Gilly, Friedrich (1772–1800). In: Dirk Alvermann, Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern. Band 1 (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern. Reihe V, Band 48,1). Böhlau Verlag, Köln Weimar Wien 2013, S. 100–101. • Adolph Doebber: Gilly, Friedrich. In: Ulrich Thieme, Fred. C. Willis (Hrsg.): Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 14: Giddens–Gress. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1921, S. 48–49 (Textarchiv – Internet Archive). • Friedrich Gilly, Friedrich Frick: Schloss Marienburg in Preussen. In Lieferungen erschienen 1799–1803. Das Ansichtenwerk neu herausgegeben von Wilhelm Salewski. Galtgarben Verlag, Düsseldorf 1965. • Friedrich Gilly 1772–1800 und die Privatgesellschaft junger Architekten. Hrsg. Rolf Bothe, Berlin Museum, 21. September bis 4. November 1984 (Ausstellungskatalog), Koordination Brigitte Schütz, Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1984,. • Otto Holtze: Friedrich Gilly. In: Pommersche Lebensbilder. Band 3: Pommern des 18., 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Saunier, Stettin 1939, S. 204–215. • Alste Horn-Oncken: Gilly, Friedrich David. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, S. 399 f. (Digitalisat). • Konrad Levezow: Denkschrift auf Friedrich Gilly, königlichen Architecten und Professor der Academie der Baukunst zu Berlin. Verlag der Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin 1801. • Arthur Moeller van den Bruck: Gilly. In: Arthur Moeller van den Bruck: Der preussische Stil. Piper, München 1916, S. 109–129. • Fritz Neumeyer (Hrsg.): Friedrich Gilly. Essays zur Architektur, 1796–1799. = Gilly, Essays. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997,. • Alste Oncken: Friedrich Gilly. 1772–1800 (= Forschungen zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Bd. 5, = Jahresgabe des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft. 1935). Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1935 (korrigierter, im Wesentlichen aber unveränderter Nachdruck. (= Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin. Beiheft 7). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1981). • Hella Reelfs: Friedrich und David Gilly in neuer Sicht. In: Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Sitzungsberichte. NF Bd. 28/29, 1979/1981, S. 18–23. • Alfred Rietdorf: Gilly. Wiedergeburt der Architektur. Hans von Hugo, Berlin 1940. • Hermann Schmitz: Die Baumeister David und Friedrich Gilly in ihren Beziehungen zu Pommern. In: Monatsblätter der Gesellschaft für pommersche Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Jg. 23, 1909, S. 81–87 und S. 108–111. • Hermann Schmitz: Friedrich Gilly. In: Kunst und Künstler. Bd. 7, 1909, S. 201–206, Digitalisat. • Gerd-Helge Vogel (Hrsg.): Friedrich Gilly 1772–1800. Innovation und Tradition klassizistischer Architektur in Europa. Geidberg-Verlag, Güstrow 2002,. • Eduard Wätjen: Friedrich Gillys Entwurf für ein Denkmal König Friedrichs II. von Preußen. In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. Bd. 51, 2000, S. 199–228.
Bust by Schadow
Bust by Schadow
• Bust of Friedrich Gilly (by Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1801)
Life and career
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1772
Friedrich Gilly born at Szczecin.
1800
Friedrich Gilly died at Karlovy Vary.
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- 1.Gilly, Friedrich David. Deutsche Biographie.
- 2.Friedrich Gilly (1772—1800). Oxford Reference.
- 3.Tillack-Graf, Anne-Kathleen. Das Denkmal für Friedrich den Großen von Friedrich Gilly 1796. 2004.
- 4.Gilly, Friedrich. Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen.
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His recorded language was German. He was the child of David Gilly. He married Elisabeth Maria Ulrike Hainchelin. Formation and teaching. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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