Albert Rosengarten

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Albrecht Rosengarten (also Albert Rosengarten, 5 January 1809 – 15 August 1893) was among the first Jewish Germans permitted to train and practice as an architect and the first to design synagogues. His work was a major influence on the Rundbogenstil design of synagogues in Central Europe and abroad in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was born to Julie (née Gans) and Abraham Rosengarten, a carpet manufacturer in Kassel. As a boy he displayed an aptitude for drawing, and he received his first training at a private drawing school. He enrolled from 1826 to 1829 at the Kassel Art Academy under the direction of Johann Heinrich Wolff, an advocate of Néo-Grec architecture who was firmly opposed to the new Rundbogenstil (rounded-arch style) championed at this time by Heinrich Hübsch, director of the building authority of Karlsruhe in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Rosengarten was accepted as an apprentice at the Kassel building authority in 1827–29, beginning his employment in the civil service of the Electorate of Hesse. He was awarded a prize at the Kassel Art Academy and in 1829–30 made his first study trip to Rome. Upon his return to Hesse, he was again employed at the Kassel building authority, now as an assistant to the director. In all, Rosengarten worked for twelve years in the civil service of the Electorate of Hesse, broadening his expertise through study trips to Paris (with Henri Labrouste) in 1839 and, for a second time, to Rome in 1841. Rosengarten, who never married, moved in 1842 to Hamburg, where he designed a number of buildings.