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C.H.E. Blackmann (1835 – ) (Carl Heinrich Edmund Blackmann), a leading Sydney architect and member of the Institute of Architects and Surveyors and the Royal Society, was associated with over 130 buildings in a career of 20 years in Australia.〔Sayers, John W, C H E Blackmann – An Outline, Historical Research Thesis Bachelor Architecture Degree V (Old Course) UNSW 1973〕 He came to Australia from Germany at the age of 21, joined the Gold Rush and was naturalized in Victoria in 1861.〔National Archives of Australia A712, 1861/R5062〕 He returned to Berlin for two years to complete his architectural training and brought his new wife Bertha Wilhelmina Mueller back to Victoria in 1866.〔Victorian Passenger lists PROV, VPRS 7666, Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (British Ports〕 Blackmann had a spectacular fall from grace in 1886 when he sailed to California with a younger woman, abandoning his wife, seven children and new business partner (Sir) John Sulman. The ensuing notoriety resulted in the marginalisation of his contribution to architecture; his outstanding work was subsequently ascribed to his much younger partner Varney Parkes (Blackmann & Parkes 1880-1885) or to John Sulman (Blackmann & Sulman 1886). Authors have repeated the rumour that he ‘fled the country with a barmaid leaving Sulman liable for his tubulars"’.〔John Maxwell Freeland The Making of a Profession – A History of the Growth and Work of the Architectural Institutes of Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1971, p6〕〔John Phillips, John Sulman and the Question of an "Australian Style of Architecture" Fabrications: 8, July 1997 p90〕 During his lifetime, Blackmann's contemporaries lauded his skills in mining engineering, drawing, design, project management and architecture. Recent research〔Norma Perry, C H E Blackmann – the disappearing architect, Norma Rose Perry, Sydney, 2011 ISBN 978-0-646-55884-4〕 has shown that Blackmann left Sulman, a recent migrant to Sydney, with an exclusive office suite and a flourishing business with rich bank and insurance clients. Sulman purchased the other half of the partnership in 1889. Bertha was left with property and funds and in 1890 took the two youngest sons to California to live with Blackmann and the woman, who had been the family’s nanny, according to his descendants. Bertha and the five older children subsequently flourished in West Australia, where Bertha died in 1927. Blackmann became a US citizen in Los Angeles in 1888.〔Name: Chas H E Blackmann State: California Court Location: Los Angeles, California Naturalization Record Type: Declaration of Intention Roll Description: (Roll 07) Declarations of Intention Vols. 24-26; 1886-1892 Archive: National Archives, Washington, D.C. Collection Title: Naturalization Records in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, California, 1876-1915 Archive Series: M1614 Archive Roll: 7〕 In California he worked as an architect in Los Angeles, San Diego and finally San Francisco. The last known record relating to him was in 1912. ==Early life== Born to German parents in Tomaszów in the Russian Protectorate of Poland in April 1835, Blackmann was educated in Berlin, after which trained under the Continental builder/architect method, articled to an architect with practical experience as a carpenter. He was a ship's carpenter for four years. leaving the ship in Australia to join the Gold Rush of 1856. He mined in Maryborough and claimed he saved sufficient funds to return to Berlin and attend lectures at the Royal Architectural Academy for two years (1864-1866).〔An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California, The Lewis Publishing Co. 1889, p384〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「C.H.E. Blackmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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