Friedrich August Krubsacius – Wikipedia

Friedrich August Krubsacius (Dresden, March 21, 1718 – Dresden, 28 November 1789) was a German architect.
He was one of the most important academic teachers and manufacturers of the late Baroque Dresden.

His father, Friedrich August Krubsacius il Vecchio (died around 1679; buried on June 8, 1735 ^[first] ), had been a chancellor of the Sassone electorate.

Krubsacius became court architect in 1755, professor of architecture at the Academy of Art of Dresden 1764 and architect of the High Country in 1776 as successor of Julius Heinrich Schwarze.

Krubsacius was in the tradition of the French classicist Baroque, which Zacharias Longuelune had introduced to Dresden since 1713 and that Johann Christoph Knöffel had further developed in the Rococo Sassone. Krubsacius was a pupil of Knöffel.

Krubsacius contributed significantly to the development of neoclassicism in Saxony and therefore had a great influence on the subsequent generation of architects in Dresden. Its name is closely linked to the development of the theory of architecture. As a supporter of the theories of Vitruvius and Palladio, in his theoretical writings he referred to the classicist manufacturers of France, so he underlined Nicolas-François Blondel and Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Ange-Jacques Gabriel. ^[2] Is considered the translator of the Architecture test of the Jesuit priest Marc Antoin Laugier.

In agreement with the ideas of Propriety , Krubsacius also documented his idea of ​​a noble architecture oriented towards the classic that strives for a functional and elegant purpose when he builds the Landhaus of Dresden. While the entrance front presents itself in the austerity of classicist architecture, the former front of the garden and the scale still have a Rococo aspect, similar to its first works, the elegant castle of Martinskirchen, which was renewed only all ‘external; A void and neglected building.

Krubsacius did not avoid a conflict with the Masters of Dresden manufacturers, who were oriented towards the Italian High Baroque (Gaetano Chiaveri at the Cortica Corte Church and the pupil of Bähr, Johann George Schmidt at Kreuzkirche).

Tra i Suoi Allievi VI Furono: Johann August Giesel, Christian Friedrich Schuricht, Gottlob August Hölzer E Christian Heinrich Eigenstill.

He was the honorary member of the Economic Society of Leipzig. ^[3]

• Mailskirchen castle (1751-1756) (1751-1756)
• Otterwisch castle park (1752–1754)
• Southern extension of the Castle of Zschepplin (1762)
• 1763/1764 Restoration of the ballroom and new construction of the staircase in the Kurländer Palais in Dresden
• Redesign of the Diel Castello di Neschwitz park
• Tomb of Count Hoym in the parish church of Thalwitz (1764)
• Secondary school palace in today’s Blüherpark (1764-1770)
• New castle in Neschwitz (1766-1775; destroyed in 1945)
• Landhaus in Dresden (today Museum of the city of Dresden) (1770–1776)
• Palais Hoym, rebuilt after the seven -year war (1766)

• Brockhaus’ conversation lexicon . Berlin and Vienna, 14. edition, 1894-1896, p. 513
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony; Brandenburg
• ( OF ) Walter May, Krubsacius, Friedrich August , in New German biography , Vol. 13, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X, p. 93 s. ( online ).
• Lutz Reike: The history of the Dresden country house and his master builder Friedrich August Krubsacius In: Dresden History Book, Volume 10, 2004, pp. 132–154
• Jörg Biesler: Building criticism. German architectural theory in the 18th century. Berlin 2005, pages 198-219, 263 f.