Alvin Anger

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Villa Anger as a recreation home Villa Harthaberg in the health resort Hartha (1927)
Villa Weigang in Bautzen (2010)

Alvin Anger (born November 29, 1859 in Hamburg , † 1924 in Lindau - Hoyren ; full name: Alvin Louis Christoph Anger ) was a German architect and university professor .

life and work

Anger studied at the building trade and trade school in Hamburg and later at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He then worked until 1893 in the architecture office Pfeifer & Handel in Leipzig , where the Leipzig Art Nouveau architect Paul Möbius also worked from 1889–1899 , and then in the architecture office Polster & Höhne . In 1894 he became professor for shadow theory, perspective and architecture at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . There he headed the general perspective-geometry department and, in addition to architectural tasks, mainly dealt with interior decoration and applied arts . Anger also became known through his New Textbook on Perspective , published in Dresden in 1911 , in which he described perspective as "undisputedly the fundamental and therefore most indispensable science for all visual arts". In 1902 he took part in the German National Art Exhibition as part of the Düsseldorf industrial and commercial exhibition with several villa designs and his competition design for the Hannover Provincial Museum .

Among the buildings carried out, the Villa Weigang , Weigangstrasse 1 in Bautzen , and his own country house Villa Anger , Am Hartheberg 23 in the health resort of Hartha , are highlighted. As early as 1901, Anger bought the Harthaer property from Karl Richard Fritzsche from Dresden, who had acquired it in 1899 from the royal Saxon private treasury (now the State Forest). While the exterior of the towering villa is designed in the Art Nouveau style, the interior also features neo-Gothic , neo-Baroque , Moorish and Tudorian style elements. The main attraction was once without a doubt the dining room, no longer preserved in this form, as a smaller version of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles . Anger lived there until 1919. In 1921, the Dresden wholesaler Emil Wagner became the owner of the villa, which was named Villa Harthaberg in a local brochure from 1924 and sold to the Deutsche Reichsbahn, which used it until 1993, most recently as the “Otto Rehschuh” health resort . The villa has been used as a private apartment building since 2001.

Anger was a member of the Dresden Architects Association and the Saxon Engineers and Architects Association . He died in Lindau-Hoyren on Lake Constance in 1924 .

plant

buildings

As an employee at Pfeifer & Handel

As an employee at Polster & Höhne

  • 1893: Competition design for the city library in Bremen (not executed)
  • 1894: Competition design for the New Town Hall in ( Wuppertal -) Elberfeld

In self-employment

  • 1895: Competition design for the Provincial Museum in Hanover (together with the Leipzig architect Heinrich Rust ; awarded one of two 3rd prizes)
  • 1901–1902: Villa Anger , from 1924 Villa Harthaberg , in the health resort of Hartha
  • 1902–1903: Villa Weigang in Bautzen

Oil painting

Fonts

  • New perspective textbook. Kühtmann, Dresden 1911.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alvin Anger in the Aman - Arft section , Historical Register of Architects in the “archthek” database, accessed on March 15, 2020
  2. ↑ Address book, housing and business manual of the royal residence and capital Dresden for the year 1895 , 1st part (housing manual ), 1st section, p. 10.
  3. ^ Membership directory of the 48 associations belonging to the Association of German Architects and Engineers. 17th edition, Julius Springer, Berlin 1914, p. 3.
  4. ^ Competition Provinzialmuseum Hannover on a private homepage about the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase , accessed on March 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Anger, Alvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anger, Alvin Louis Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1924
Place of death Hoyren