Alexandr Lavrentievič Vitberg

* 26. 1. 1787
† 24. 1. 1855

 

národnost: ruská
pohlaví: muž

Alexandr Lavrentievič Vitberg

Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Vitberg (Russian: Александр Лаврентьевич Витберг; 26 January 1787 — 24 January 1855) was a Russian Neoclassical architect of Swedish stock.
As a young man he was a member of Alexandr Labzin's Masonic lodge, the "Dying Sphinx', studying Boehmist theosophy. The lodge, which had been the first to reopen, in 1800,[1] was ordered closed in 1822.[2]
Vitberg won a design competition and in 1817 had the satisfaction of witnessing groundbreaking ceremony for his neoclassical Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, a monument to the Russian resistance in the 1812 War, for which Vitberg was forced to change faith to the Russian Orthodox Church to meet the stipulations of Tsar Alexander I. Though construction on the Sparrow Hills was commenced in 1826, a new tsar, Nicholas I later abandoned the "Masonic" plan for a less "Roman Catholic" neo-Byzantine construction.
The architect was accused of bribery and exiled to Vyatka, a city in the Ural Mountains.[3] There his most successful work was accomplished, among which were his monumental gates for the Alexander garden (1836) and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1839–1848).[4] A fellow-exile there was Alexander Herzen, who made friends with Vitberg, portrayed him sympathetically in My Past and Thoughts, and was briefly influenced by Vitberg's strain of mystical thought.[5]
When he was allowed to return to Moscow, Vitberg found little work and died in poverty and official neglect. The dawn of Russian neoclassical revival in the late 19th century contributed to a reappraisal of his architectural legacy. An exhibition commemorating his output, set in the historical context of his generation, was mounted in Stockholm: Alexander Witberg (1787-1855). En Arkitekurhistorisk Installation Stockholm, 1993-1994.
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Alexandr Lavrentievič Vitberg

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