Albert Lindhorst

Johann Albert Heinrich Lindhorst (born May 9, 1871 in Hamburg ; † May 12, 1938 there ) was a German architect .

Life

The Stellahaus designed by Lindhorst

Albert Lindhorst's father ran a construction company in Hamburg, where his son completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from the age of 16. In 1889 Albert Lindhorst moved to Munich , where he worked as a journeyman carpenter. In 1892 he went back to Hamburg. In the architecture office of Ernst Schmidt (* 1865) and Hermann Wurzbach, he worked as a construction technician, mostly on multi-storey buildings that were built in Eppendorf and Eimsbüttel . He then worked as an architect for several years. In 1897 he opened his own architecture office without prior studies.

Initially, Lindhorst designed apartment buildings in Eimsbüttel. With the buildings on Weidenallee, Mansteinstraße, Heussweg and Lutterothstraße, complete peripheral developments were built according to his plans. He almost always received the orders from Andreas Fritz Andresen, Joachim Henning Arriens and Otto Schmidt, who previously rededicated agricultural land, developed it and had houses built there. The architect benefited from the construction industry that flourished during the German Empire .

Lindhorst initially planned the neo-renaissance style , but turned to Art Nouveau at the turn of the century . He used a lot of ornaments in his houses, but also in the Holstenhof on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, which was built in 1901/02. He decorated the facades with geometric patterns and figures that are rarely found in this form in Hamburg. During this time, Lindhorst was considered the leading Art Nouveau architect in the Hanseatic city. Later he built more office buildings , which were increasingly being built in the urban area. In 1908/09 he planned the Lessing House for Emil Schaudt from Berlin . In 1913/14 he built the Wrangelhaus on Jungfernstieg, self-financed . In both buildings he used the usual basic patterns, but clad the facades with brick, which he used to pick up on suggestions from the homeland security movement.

During the First World War , Lindhorst mostly built his own residential and commercial buildings and therefore produced fewer and fewer commissioned drafts. In 1922/23 he planned the expansion of today's Stellahaus . In doing so, he used new staggered storeys for Hamburg , which also shaped the architecture of the following years due to the expressionist design. However, Lindhorst's employees Christian Zauleck and Franz Hormann were largely responsible for the designs, and they opened their own office with the construction of the Stellahaus.

During the Weimar Republic , Lindhorst was no longer active as an architect. He managed his rental income from his own houses and worked as an expert for the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . He was also a member of the Basic Evaluation Committee of the Finance Department . He died a few days after his 67th birthday in the city of his birth.

Web links

Commons : Albert Lindhorst (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Jan Lubitz: Lindhorst, Albert . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 190-191 .