Friedrich David Gilly (also Gilly, German: Friedrich David Gilly ; February 16, 1772 , Altdamm , Pomerania - August 3, 1800 , Carlsbad ) - German architect .
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| Place of Birth | Altdamm , Pomerania |
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Biography
Gilly was a native of a family of Huguenot emigrants who settled in Prussia in 1689. His father, David Gilly, was also an architect. In 1788, Gilly entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin . His teachers were Johann Gottfried Schadov and Karl Gottgard Langgans . In 1797, Gilly traveled to France , England and Austria . The drawings made by Gilly in France reflect his interest in architecture. They depict views of the Renaissance fountain, Rue des Colonnes (street of columns), the chamber of the Council of Elders in the Tuileries Palace , the grotto of Jean Jacques Rousseau in Ermenonville .
In 1797, Gilly developed an unrealized project of a monument to the Prussian king Frederick II . Since 1799, Gilly lived in the house and studied architecture under his leadership, Karl Friedrich Schinkel - later a famous German architect. Young Gilly was appointed professor at the Berlin Academy of Architecture at the age of 26.
Of the buildings constructed according to the projects of Gilly, only one has survived: a mausoleum in the style of the Greek Renaissance (1800-1802, almost completely destroyed after 1942, ruins remained) in the city of Brzeg Dolny ( Poland ), executed in the form of a Greek style .
Gilly died of tuberculosis at the age of 28.
The design of the monument to Frederick II (1797)