August Leo Zaar

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August Leo Zaar (born August 7, 1860 in Cologne , † May 2, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German architect and book author .

Life

August Leo Zaar's older brother was the future architect Carl Zaar .

From 1902 Zaar was a lecturer at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . On December 6, 1897, he attributed his reconstruction drawing, which shows the front view as well as the floor plan of the no longer preserved "Gesund- und Heilbrunnen" in Freienwalde , to the architect Andreas Schlueter .

plant

Berlin, Münzstr. 1-5
  • 1876: Purchase of his design for the Neustadt town hall in West Prussia
  • 1879–1883: Construction of the Prussian War Academy according to plans by Carl Bernhard and Grunert, (together with Franz Heinrich Schwechten )
  • 1889: as the draftsman of the Kaiserhof restaurant in Cologne on Salomonsgasse
  • before 1890: House for the Nettesheim family on Karolingerring
  • around 1890: Münzstrasse 1/5 / Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 5/7, residential and commercial building, facade remodeling around 1920
  • 1897: Reconstruction drawing of the no longer preserved "Gesund- und Heilbrunnen" in Bad Freienwalde on the Oder
  • 1900: details of old wooden houses, Rouen, Caen, Lisieux

Publications

  • Carl Zaar , August L. Zaar: Business and department stores, department stores and mess palaces, passages and galleries. In: Eduard Schmitt (Ed.): Handbuch der Architektur , Arnold Bergsträsser Verlagbuchhandlung A. Kröner, Stuttgart 1902.

Web links

Commons : August Leo Zaar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eichwalder Bote ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 8.2 MB), November 29, 2008, page 4, accessed on February 9, 2013
  2. ^ Reconstruction drawing , accessed on February 9, 2013
  3. ^ Page 530 , in Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 83 (October 13, 1906), accessed on February 9, 2013
  4. ↑ The Kaiserhof in Cologne with building description, facade and floor plan (PDF; 8.5 MB) in Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 23, December 7, 1889, pp. 591, 592. accessed on February 9, 2013
  5. ^ Nettesheim residential building , accessed on September 9, 2013
  6. ↑ color photography
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Details from old wooden houses, Rouen, Caen, Lisieux , accessed on February 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Zaar, August Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1911
Place of death Berlin