Adolf Abel (architect)

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Adolf Abel as a student at the Couleur of fraternity Alemannia Stuttgart

Adolf Gaston Abel (born November 27, 1882 in Paris , † November 3, 1968 in Bruckberg (Middle Franconia) ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Adolf Abel was a son of the Offenburg architect Friedrich Abel (1852–1926) and his wife Anna Abel geb. Schindler (1855-1940). He studied from 1902 to 1904 at the Technical University of Stuttgart under Theodor Fischer and from 1904 to 1905 at the Dresden Art Academy . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity in 1902 . After a long study trip through northern Italy, he worked in Dresden from 1906 to 1908, at times as an employee of Paul Wallot . In 1909 he had a job in the architecture office Schmohl and Staehlin, from 1910 to 1914 in the office Eisenlohr and Pfennig, both in Stuttgart.

After the end of the First World War , he first became a research assistant at Paul Bonatz's chair at the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he received a teaching post in 1921 , which he held until 1925. At the same time, he also worked as a freelance firm with the architect Karl Böhringer in Stuttgart and as head of the building construction department of Neckar-AG .

In 1925 Abel went to Cologne as city planning director and set accents in urban development in Cologne until 1930 (including Cologne trade fair, new university building, Butzweilerhof airport, Müngersdorfer stadium). As the successor to Theodor Fischer, he was appointed professor of architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Munich in 1930. In the years between 1933 and 1945 he had to limit himself to urban planning studies and private contracts. From 1940 Abel took over the lectures of the professor emeritus Göller in urban planning for civil engineers .

From 1946 to 1949 Abel was engaged in reconstruction work in Baden-Württemberg and Munich, including as a member of the Baden-Württemberg Reconstruction Board. In 1949 he was given a teaching position at the Technical University of Darmstadt and returned to Stuttgart in 1955.

Abel was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Honors

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Buildings and designs

  • 1907: Competition design for the Kurhaus, Festhalle and commercial exhibition building in Triberg (Black Forest) (awarded 3rd prize)
  • 1910: Competition design for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück
  • 1913: Competition design for the main cemetery in Stuttgart (together with Eisenlohr and Pfennig, awarded 1st prize)
  • 1921: Service building of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (also called "Stuttgart Stock Exchange") (with Karl Böhringer)
  • 1921–1925: Neckar barrage Neckarsulm / Kochendorf and Neckar barrage Wieblingen
  • 1923: Tomb for the Volkmann family in Schaprode on Rügen
  • 1923–1927 (?): Neckar weir in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
  • 1925–1926: Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke over the Neckar in Mannheim
  • 1925–1930 (?): Urban buildings in Cologne: u. a. Garbage disposal facility, fire station, tram waiting hall, Butzweilerhof airport
  • 1925–1928 (?): Reception buildings of the Müngersdorfer Stadium (so-called Abelbauten )
  • 1926–1934: Conversion of former barracks into an old town of the Riehler Heimstätten in Cologne-Riehl
  • 1927–1928: Buildings for the Pressa 1928: Brick expressionistic extension of the exhibition halls ( Rheinhallen ) with press tower , "Rheinterrassen" restaurant, state house , conversion of the Deutz Kürassier barracks to the "Rheinmuseum" ( Cologne City Museum )
  • 1927–1929: Architectural design of the Mülheimer Brücke in Cologne
  • 1928–30 (?): Base for the cuirassier monument in Cologne-Deutz (sculpture by sculptor Paul Wynand )
  • 1927–1929: Skyscraper at the train station in Koblenz
  • 1929: Competition draft for the extension of the Reichstag in Berlin
  • 1929–1934: New building for the University of Cologne (inauguration 1935)
  • 1930: Own house in Herzogpark in Munich
  • 1932: Preliminary draft for the New Glass Palace in Munich (where the House of Art was built)
  • 1932–1933: Double country house for the artists Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin in Riehen near Basel
  • 1934: Competition design for the "House of Labor"
  • 1934: Weekend house for Baroness von Stengelberg in Berg am Starnberger See
  • 1935–1940: proposal for the redesign of the spa facilities in Baden-Baden
  • 1935–1940: General traffic and development plan for the city of Wuppertal
  • 1937: Nübel house in Korntal near Stuttgart
  • 1946–1948: Reconstruction with conversion and expansion of the office building of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Munich, Theatinerstraße
  • 1946–1949: Reconstruction and conversion plan for Munich city center
  • 1954–1956: Liederhalle Stuttgart (together with Rolf Gutbrod )
  • 1955–1957: Community center and church in Neutraubling near Regensburg
  • 1958: Single-family houses on a steep hillside in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse
  • 1959: Design for the Kepler building in Regensburg
  • 1959–1962: Indoor swimming pool and gymnasium and sports hall in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse
  • 1961: Multi-purpose hall in Offenburg (with M. Wacker)
  • 1963: Extension of the nursing home in Bruckberg near Ansbach (with Werner Wolff)

  • Skyscraper at the train station in Koblenz

  • Cologne Exhibition Tower of the Rheinhallen

  • State House in Cologne

  • Main building of the University of Cologne

  • Abel buildings in front of the Rheinenergiestadion

  • New Liederhalle in Stuttgart (1961)

Fonts

  • The exhibition and museum buildings on the right bank of the Rhine in Cologne. I. The architect to the work. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 78, 1928, pp. 183–187. ( Digitized at the Central and State Library Berlin )
  • Five years at the Cologne Building Department 1925–1930 . Cologne 1931.
  • Regeneration of the cities - of the Villes - of Towns. Erlenbach / Zurich 1950.
  • On the essence of space in architecture. Munich 1952.

literature

  • Abel, Adolf. In: Reich manual of the German society . Volume 1, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930. ( as a microfiche edition with an introduction by Ferdinand Tönnies: KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .)
  • Abel, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 4 .
  • Max Guther : On the history of urban planning at German universities. In: Heinz Wetzel and the history of urban planning at German universities. Stuttgart 1982, pp. 94-95.
  • Abel, Adolf. In: Hans-Curt Köster (Ed.): Architecture 1900–1929 in Germany. (= The Blue Books. ) Langewiesche Nachf., Königstein 1999, ISBN 3-7845-8041-6 , p. 158.
  • Abel, Adolf (Gaston). In: Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 1–2.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Abel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Georg-Friedrich-Abel/6000000029773575001
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 3.
  3. ^ Winfried Nerdinger: South German building traditions in the 20th century . Munich 1985, p. 150 .
  4. ^ Müngersdorfer Stadium. In: archINFORM. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  5. ^ Winfried Nerdinger: South German building traditions in the 20th century . Munich 1985, p. 150 .
  6. ↑ 85 Years of Social Enterprises Cologne 1927–2012. Cologne 2012. ( online as PDF file)
  7. ^ Winfried Nerdinger: South German building traditions in the 20th century . Munich 1985, p. 150 .
  8. ^ Museum Ludwig (ed.): Sculpture in Cologne . 20th century images in the cityscape. Cologne 1988, p. 14 .
  9. ^ Winfried Nerdinger: South German building traditions in the 20th century . Munich 1985, p. 150 .
  10. ^ [ON]: Reichsminister Rust inaugurates the new Cologne University . In: West German Observer . No. 160 , April 5, 1935.
  11. ↑ Jodem: In the new building of the University . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . No. 154 , March 25, 1934.
  12. ↑ A house in the sun . In: Das Schöne Heim , 5th year 1933/1934, pp. 97–108.
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abel, Adolf Gaston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1968
Place of death Bruckberg