Albert Schieber
Adolf Albert Schieber (born October 20, 1875 in Bopfingen ; † May 7, 1946 in Winnenden ) was a German architect .
Life
Albert Schieber was born on October 20, 1875 in Bopfingen, where he spent his childhood and youth and went to secondary school. He spent most of the rest of his life in southern Germany and the USA. On April 22nd, 1899 he married Elise b. Schätzle from Waiblingen . From this marriage two daughters were born.
Schieber worked as a freelance architect in Stuttgart , his office was in Seestrasse 108 in 1929. He built primarily in southern Germany, but also in northern and eastern Germany, in Europe and the USA.
His early designs were neoclassical , but kept very simple. Strict geometry and the golden ratio played a major role in all of his buildings. His later projects were shaped by the New Objectivity and Classical Modernism (see New Building ). He himself described his buildings as "serious as the German man" .
In connection with the redesign of the Stuttgart railway system at the beginning of the 20th century, Schieber was an advocate of a through station , he was of the opinion that a terminus station would have negative consequences for Stuttgart's urban development. However, when the Württemberg railway administration decided in favor of the less complex solution of relocating the station facilities to the northeast to the current location - and thus maintaining a terminal station - Schieber withdrew from local politics in frustration. Nevertheless, he took part in the architecture competition for the new station building in 1911 and won a second prize with his design.
Schieber was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund , a freemason and anthroposophist with a passion for philosophy . He is considered a pioneer in industrial construction, and many of his buildings are now listed .
When the villas on Seestrasse in Stuttgart - probably the high point of his work as an architect - were destroyed towards the end of the war, he turned his back on Stuttgart. Distraught, he was admitted to the psychiatric ward in Winnenden in 1946, where he committed suicide a little later on May 7, 1946. He was buried in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart.
Work (selection)
The high quality of Albert Schieber's architecture, also in terms of craftsmanship, becomes clear when you see how well his buildings are still - unrefurbished - while many more recent buildings have already undergone numerous renovations and structural damage.
- 1900/1901: Apartment building in Stuttgart-West, Bismarckplatz 3/4 (late historical based on the design language of the German Renaissance, under monument protection)
- 1903/1905: Residential and commercial building group in Stuttgart-West, Forststraße 94 / 96a / Schwabstraße 84 (brick buildings with ashlar facade, building sculptures neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic, under monument protection)
- 1903: Residential and commercial building group in Stuttgart-West, Forststrasse 132/134/136 (based on the Baroque, bay window with neo-baroque ornamentation, under monument protection)
- 1906: Residential and commercial building in Stuttgart-Ost, Lebanonstraße 85 (baroque window frames made of stone, art nouveau motifs, listed)
- 1909: Residential and commercial building group in Stuttgart-West, Rotebühlstraße 164/166/168 (brick construction with ashlar details, decorative building sculpture based on the formal language of neoclassicism and neo-baroque, under monument protection)
- 1909: Apartment building in Stuttgart-Ost, Stafflenbergstraße 44 (simple neo-classical form, under monument protection)
- 1909/1910: Couple of residential and commercial buildings in Stuttgart-West, Schwabstraße 112/114 (unplastered stone buildings, building sculptures, neoclassical, listed)
- 1910: Residential and commercial building group in Stuttgart-West, Hölderlinplatz 6/8/10 (smooth exposed masonry facade, use of baroque and neoclassical motifs, under monument protection)
- 1911: Competition design for the reception building of the new main train station in Stuttgart (awarded a 2nd prize)
- 1911: Couple of multi-family houses in Stuttgart-Süd, Filderstraße 19/21 (facade in simple classical forms, under monument protection)
- 1914: Apartment building in Stuttgart-Ost, Heinrich-Baumann-Straße 21 (exemplary for the reform architecture immediately before the First World War, preliminary stage of the new building, under monument protection)
- 1919: House for Ludwig Schieber (Albert Schieber's brother), called "Villa Kleinknecht", in Bopfingen
- 1921: Warehouse and office building for the bulk purchasing association of the colonial goods dealer Württemberg GmbH in (Stuttgart-) Bad Cannstatt, Bellingweg 21 (under monument protection, from January 2011 new location of the Stuttgart City Archives )
- 1925–1927: Office and commercial building for the Hahn + Kolb Group ("Hahn & Kolb-Haus") in Stuttgart, Königstrasse 14 / Thouretstrasse / Stephanstrasse (the first high-rise building in Stuttgart)
- 1927–1928: Ziegelklinge settlement in Stuttgart, Sperlingstrasse 20–26, 28–34, 36–46 and Sandweg 2–12, 14–24 (first city-owned settlement in the New Objectivity style, 26 residential units, row houses with playground)
- 1928: New construction of the Ritz pump factory in Schwäbisch Gmünd , Becherlehenstrasse 26
as well as (undated)
- Numerous villas on Seestrasse in Stuttgart
- Building of the “ Universal ” knitting machine factory in Westhausen
- New buildings for the “Dorus” chemical factory in Bopfingen
- New construction of the spinning mill in Urbach
swell
- Family tree of the Schieber family, Bopfingen
- List of cultural monuments of the state capital Stuttgart
- Frank Gericke: The city as the client. Housing construction in Stuttgart in the 1920s. Stuttgart, 1997.
Web links
- 17 million euros must flow! In: Stuttgarter Wochenblatt. September 1, 2005, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved on December 8, 2010 : “In the listed brick building Bellingweg 21, which was built in 1921 according to a design by the Stuttgart architect Schieber for the wholesale purchasing association of the colonial goods dealer Württemberg GmbH, depots, reading and lecture rooms, an open access magazine of the library and Offices for which more than 20 employees are set up. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 489 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schieber, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schieber, Adolf Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bopfingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1946 |
| Place of death | Winnenden |