Harald Julius von Bosse (28 September 1812 – 10 March 1894; ''Гаральд Юлиус Боссе'') was a 19th-century architect and painter. He was descended from a Germano-Baltic noble family and was a subject of the

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Life

He was born in Lievburg nearby Saint Petersburg. He studied at Darmstadt and moved to

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in 1831. He worked in

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's studio and was made a free painter in the

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in 1832, an academician there in 1839 and a professor there in 1854. He designed public buildings and became court architect in 1858. He retired in 1863 and moved to

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for health reasons, spending his final years there and in 1872 designing its Reformed Church and

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. Among his other well-known works is the German Church in

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, Finland, a work attributed jointly to von Bosse and Swedish-born architect Carl Johan von Heideken, the work being completed in 1864. He died in Dresden.

Artistic method

According to the aesthetics of the Historicism period, the architect Bosse tried his hand at different "historic styles". In his designs for country houses of the late 1830s to mid-1840s he worked mainly "in the English cottage style, using elements of Gothic decoration". The architect's style evolved from strict

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to the

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style. The neo-Renaissance style was adopted by the House of Ivan Pashkov on

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in St Petersburg (1841-1844), similarly decorated are the facades of the residential buildings on Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street, the mansion of E.P.

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a on Bolshaya Morskaya and the mansions of M.V. Kochubey and A.A. Polovtsov. However, the interiors of the residences are decorated in different styles: Neo-Baroque,

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, Moorish and

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. The facade of E. M. Buturlina's house on Tchaikovsky Street is one of the most striking examples of the "second baroque" in St. Petersburg, imitating the

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Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (russian: Франче́ско Бартоломе́о (Варфоломе́й Варфоломе́евич) Растре́лли; 1700 in Paris, Kingdom of France – 29 April 1771 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Emp ...

. While rebuilding the Boudoir of Empress Maria Alexandrovna in the

Bosse chose the

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; he replaced the original blue colour with bright scarlet silk and gilded details. File:Санкт-Петербург. Особняк князя Л.В.Кочубея. Чайковского ул. 30..JPG, Prince Kochubey's residence on Tchaikovsky Street (1845—1846) File:EUSP Palace.jpg, Residence of Count Kushelev-Besborodko on Gagarinskaya Street (1840s.) File:Embassy of Austria-Hungary in Saint Petersburg.jpg, Residence of E. M. Buturlina (1857-1860) File:Гау.Будуар Марии Александровны..jpg, Empress Maria Alexandrovna's boudoir in the Winter Palace (1853)

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