Albrecht Becker (architect)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albrecht Becker (born February 22, 1840 in Rostock , † October 11, 1911 at Gut Mallenzin (today Malęcino ) near Groß Schwirsen , Pomerania ; full name: Johann Albrecht Becker ) was a German architect .

Life

Literaturhaus Berlin

Becker was born in Rostock and grew up on an estate in the Rostock area. There he attended high school. For family reasons he had to attend middle school in Wismar at times before he could switch back to high school. He also completed an apprenticeship as a mason in Wismar. He also worked for the railway administration in Bromberg and for Rostock's building inspector Saniter, his mother's stepbrother. From 1862 to 1865 he studied at the Berlin Building Academy . In 1873 he passed the master builder examination , and in the same year he married. Until 1876 he worked as a private architect together with Saniter in Rostock. Richard Lucae , whom he had already met during his training, offered him a job as a site manager for the construction of the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main . After Lucae's early death in 1877, Becker completed this building together with Edgar Giesenberg . After the inauguration of the opera house in 1880 and the early death of his wife, he went back to Rostock for a short time before settling in Berlin. He worked in the construction office for the construction of the Berlin Reichstag building and from 1886 ran a private architecture office together with E. Schlüter. During this time, a number of buildings were built in Berlin. In 1911 he died on the Pomeranian estate of his youngest son. He is buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery.

Buildings (selection)

Memorial plaque at the Henriettenhaus
  • 1873 -9999: Kaarz Castle (together with Saniter)
  • 1889–1890: Villa Hildebrand (today Literaturhaus Berlin ) in Berlin, Fasanenstrasse 23 (with Schlüter)
  • 1889–1891: Educational institution / housekeeping school “Tanneck” for Lucie Crain in Charlottenburg-Westend , Kaiserdamm 38 (with Schlüter; destroyed in World War II)
  • 1896–1898: Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus (Henriettenhaus) in Schöneberg (with Schlüter)
  • 1897–1898: Bismarck-Gymnasium (later Marcel-Grateau-Oberschule) in Wilmersdorf , Pfalzburger Straße 30/31 (simply restored after war damage)
  • 1897–1898: Community school in Wilmersdorf, Gieselerstraße 1–7
  • 1898 -9999: Administration building for the civil engineering professional association in Wilmersdorf (with Schlüter)
  • 1901–1902: Villa Vanselow in Nikolassee (with Schlüter)
  • Participation in later additions to the main building for the garrison hospital in Berlin-Mitte

literature

  • Garlic: Albrecht Becker †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 89 (from November 4, 1911), p. 551.
  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century. (= Miniatures on the history, culture and monument preservation of Berlin , No. 26.) Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Becker's grave on the pages of the Frankfurt main cemetery, accessed on March 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ Alte Oper on Germany's architecture, accessed on March 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ Architectural monument at Fasanenstrasse 23, Villa, 1889/90 by Becker & Schlüter
  4. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin eV (Ed.): Schools. (= Berlin and its buildings , part V, volume C.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02205-4 , p. 370.
  5. ↑ Karl-Schrader-Strasse 7/8, Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus, 1896–98, 1914 by Becker & Schlueter, 1927 by Hans Jessen
  6. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin eV (Ed.): Schools. (= Berlin and its buildings , part V, volume C.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02205-4 , p. 376.
  7. ↑ Architectural monument community school Wilmersdorf, Gieselerstraße 1–7, 1897/98 by Becker
  8. ↑ Architectural monument Waghäuseler Straße 11/12, former civil engineering professional association, 1898, 1911 by Becker & Schlüter, (later conversions 1920-23)
  9. ↑ Architectural monument at Rehwiese 14, Villa Vanselow, 1901/02 by Becker & Schlüter
  10. ↑ Architectural monument Scharnhorststrasse 13-14, Garrison-Lazarett I, main building, 1850-53 by Ferdinand Fleischinger, Karl Wilhelm Drewitz and Johann Albrecht Becker
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Johann Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1911
Place of death Mallenzin (today Malęcino ) near Groß Schwirsen , Pomerania