Bernhard R.B. (1819-1887), architect

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BERNHARD Rudolf Bogdanovich (1819-1887), architect, representative of Eclecticism, civil engineer, teacher. In 1839-43, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of K. A. Ton. He served in the First District of Railroads and Civil Engineering (1846-65). He was an architect of Petersburg Academy of Science (1865-73), assistant to the provincial Engineer of the Urban Planning Department of St. Petersburg Provincial Government (1867-73). He taught urban planning at the College of Railroad Engineers Corps (1854-70), in the Academy of Fine Arts (1865-85; from 1870, as a professor). In 1873-86, he was the director of the School of Urban Planning (as of 1882, The College of Civil Engineers), a member of Technical and Urban Planning Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1860s, he was in charge of the reconstruction of the Fontanka River Embankments, designed the streets of Peterburgskaya Side, examined shopping and warehouse complexes. An authority in the field of construction mechanics, Bernhard developed the theory of vaulted structures, introduced into the academic curriculum in 1871. He is the author of a number of complexes of military-departmental and industrial buildings: the Curtain Raschel factory on Peterburgskaya Side (1853-60), the Main Gas Factory of the Society of Capital Lighting (1858-62), the factory of the Society of Gas Lighting for River Districts on Vasilievsky Island (1862-65), Vladimirsky Leather Factory (1860-s - 1871), barracks of Gendarmerie Battalion (1857-60), the mansion of the Military Ministry (1872-74). He erected the building of Evangelic Women's Hospital – a bright example of so-called brick style (1870-71), and also several private houses, mainly designed in the late Italian Renaissance style, Baroque and modified French Rococo. Bernhard's treatment of these styles is characterized by scrupulousness and accuracy in drawing details. He designed the building of the College of Civil Engineers (1881-83).

References: [Р. Б. Бернгард]: Некролог // Худож. новости. 1887. Т. 5, № 16. С. 438-439; Барановский Г. В. Юбилейный сборник сведений о деятельности бывших воспитанников Института гражданских инженеров (Строит. уч-ща), 1842-1892. СПб., 1892. Вып. 1. С. 29-31; Штиглиц М. С. Рудольф Бернгард // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIХ - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 397-409.

А. В. Бурдяло. Baranovsky Gavriil Vasilievich
Bernhard Rudolf Bogdanovich
Ton Konstantin Andreevich
Fontanka River/Saint Petersburg, city
Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
Барановский Г. В. Юбилейный сборник сведений о деятельности бывших воспитанников Института гражданских инженеров (Строит. уч-ща), 1842-1892. СПб., 1892
Арх.: ОР РНБ. Ф. 1000. Оп. 2. Ед. хр. 135.
Штиглиц М. С. Рудольф Бернгард // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIХ - начало XX века. СПб., 1998
[Р. Б. Бернгард]: Некролог // Худож. новости, 1887 Academy of Arts
Russian Academy of Sciences
Railway University
"Brick Style"