Gogen von A.I. (1856-1914), architect.

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GOGEN Alexander Ivanovich von (1856-1914, Petrograd), architect, member of the Academy of Architcture (1895). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1883). Among his early works, there are mansions of N.K. Vadbolskaya (10 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island, 1886-88), of F.G. Kozlyaninova (currently 12 Pisareva Street, 1891-92), of K.A. Vargunin (52 Furshtatskaya Street, 1896-99) typical for classical Eclecticism and marked by the use of plastics and asymmetric composition. The mansion of A.I. Chernov (currently 72 Oktyabrskaya Embankment, 1889-93) characterized by picturesque silhouette and dynamic asymmetry of shapes, the house of I.A. Zheverzheev (18/5 currently Rubinsteina Street, 1899), the Memorial Museum of A.V. Suvorov ( 43 Kirochnaya Street, 1901-04, with participation of the architect G.D. Grimm) are designed in the Neo-Russian style. Rational methods combined with classical order shapes are peculiar to the buildings of the Grant cash desk and the Savings-Bank (74 and 78 Fontanka River Embankment, 1898-1900, in collaboration with the architect A.A. Bertels and R.P. Golenishchev) and of Nikolaevskaya Academy of the General Staff (32 Suvorovsky Avenue, 1900-01). Conversion to the Art Nouveau is apparent in the houses of D.I. Mendeleev (26 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street, 1900-01) and of the Kozlyaninovs (10 Pisareva Street, 1908). The climax of creative work by Gogen is the Kschessinska Mansion, a prime example of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau. Gogen participated in the creation of the Monument Stereguschemu and Cathedral Mosque. He is an author of a number of buildings in the Tsarskoe Selo, Pavlovsk and other cities. He taught at the Central school of Technical Drawing (1892-97), at Nikolaevskaya Engineering Academy (1893-1908), at the College of Civil Engineers (1898-1914). He was the architect of the imperial court (as of 1903). He established the Society of Architectural Artists. He lived at 27 Furshtatskaya Street, 18/5 Troitskaya (currently, Rubinsteina) Street, at 136 Nevsky Prospect. He is buried at Smolensky Orthodox Cemetery (tombstone has not survive).

References: Кириков Б. М. Александр фон Гоген // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХIХ - начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998. С. 562-577; Кириков Б. М., Штиглиц М. С. Петербург немецких архитекторов: От барокко до авангарда. СПб., 2002. С. 282-290.

Б. М. Кириков. Bertels Andrey (Genrich) Andreevich
Chernov A.I.
Gogen Alexander Ivanovich von
Golenishchev Roman Petrovich
Grimm German Davidovich
Kozlyaninov F.G.
Kschessinska Mathilde (Maria) Felixovna
Mendeleev Dmitry Ivanovich
Suvorov Alexander Arkadievich, Count
the Kozlyaninovs
Vadbolskaya N.K.
Vargunin Konstantin Alexandrovich
Zheverzheev I.A.
9th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Bolshaya Pushkarskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 78
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 74
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 52
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 43
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 136
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 72
Pisareva St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Pisareva St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Rubinsteina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 18/5
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Кириков Б. М. Александр фон Гоген // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХIХ - начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Russian Style
Suvorov Memorial Museum
General Staff Academy
Kschessinska Mansion
Stereguschy Monument
Mosque
Crafts Academy
Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy