Ivan Rerberg

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Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg
Kiyevsky Rail Terminal
(Moscow)
Northern Insurance clock tower, 1909–1912

Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg (October 4, 1869 – October 15, 1932)

Moscow Kremlin. Rerberg, a fourth member in a dynasty of engineers, was credited with innovative approach to structural frames and despised the title of an architect, always signing his drafts Engineer Rerberg.[2]

Biography

Rerberg's father,

Petrine period
, and since then first-born sons in the family always were named either Ivan or Fyodor. Ivan's elder brother, Fyodor (1863—1938), became a painter.

Ivan was educated in a

Muir & Mirrielees department store (1907—1908), Moscow State University expansion, Devichye Pole clinics (1897—1900s), Miusskaya Square
college (1903).

In 1906—1909 Rerberg, still an associate of Klein, was gradually switching to independent work. In 1906 he won a contest for the first stage of a large apartment building in Meshchansky District funded by the estate of the late G. G. Solodovnikov. The second stage was designed by Marian Peretyatkovich; construction was managed by Traugott Bardt who completed the project in 1909. This building was styled in a mix of Victorian architecture and Art Nouveau; all subsequent work by Rerberg belonged to the school of Russian neoclassical revival.

In March 1909 Peretyatkovich and Rerberg teamed together to design the Northern Insurance buildings in

Kievsky Rail Terminal
, was substantially completed in 1917; interiors were completed in 1920—1921.

In the period of economic collapse that accompanied the

Neglinnaya River. Rerberg published proposals for a thorough renovation of Bolshoy, and these were slowly implemented under his supervision until Rerberg's death.[5]

In 1925 Rerberg secured a contract to design Central Telegraph building in

Commissar of Communications with his staff. Later, the space taken by equipment was gradually reduced in favor of offices.[6]
Externally, the Telegraph mixed modernist structure of glass panes and granite-clad columns with classical symmetry and quality workmanship and attention to detail associated with Art Deco. The building caused an uproar of avant-garde critics but was praised by mainstream press.[7]

Rerberg's last project, Military College in Kremlin (present-day Administrative Building of Moscow Kremlin) was completed after his death, in 1934.

His grandson Georgy Rerberg is known as a cinematographer.

References

  1. ^ Рерберг Иван Иванович // Большая советская энциклопедия: [в 30 т.] / под ред. А. М. Прохоров — 3-е изд. — М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1969.
  2. ISBN 5-02-006189-1
    , p. 5
  3. ^ (in Russian) E. M. Shukhova. Ivan Fyodorovich Rerberg (Е. М. Шухова // Архитектура и строительство Москвы, N 4, 1999) Arkhitektura i stroitelstvo Moskvy, N 4, 1999 ISSN 0039-2421 [1]
  4. ^ (in Russian) I. A. Prokofieva. Pervye moskovskie passazhi (И. А. Прокофьева. Первые московские пассажи // Архитектура и строительство Москвы, N 6, 1999) Arkhitektura i stroitelstvo Moskvy, N 6, 1999 ISSN 0039-2421 [2]
  5. ISBN 5-02-006189-1
    , p. 43
  6. ^ (in Russian) S. B. Kiselev. Proekt rekonstrukcii Tsentralnogo telegrafa (С. Б. Киселев. Проект реконструкции Центрального Телеграфа // Архитектура и строительство Москвы, N 4, 1999) Arkhitektura i stroitelstvo Moskvy, N 4, 1999 ISSN 0039-2421 [3] Note: other sources state interior area at 40,000 square meters.
  7. ^ (in Russian) Vyacheslav Glazychev. Rossiya v petle modernizatsii: 1850—1950 (Вячеслав Глазычев. Россия в петле модернизации. 1850—1950.) 1989, 2003, chapter 6 [4]
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Further reading

  • William Craft Brumfield. The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
    ISBN 0-520-06929-3
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