Building trade school Kaiserslautern
The Royal District Building Trade School Kaiserslautern was founded in 1874 based on the model of the Royal Building Trade School in Munich . It served the artistic-technical vocational training in the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate .
history
In order to ensure the training of high-quality skilled workers for building and handicrafts in the part of the Kingdom of Bavaria on the left bank of the Rhine and far from the state center , the government founded a building trade school there in 1874, based in Kaiserslautern , which was centrally located in the Palatinate region. The institute was based on the Munich building trade school, which was founded in 1823. At the same time, the "Palatinate Trade Museum" was founded for the exhibition of historical and new products of the Palatinate handicrafts. District President Paul von Braun promoted the projects sustainably; The director of both institutions was the architect Karl Spatz (1845–1907), who also designed the building in which both were to be located, today's Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern . It was built between 1875 and 1880. The building trade school occupied the ground floor, the museum was upstairs.
Section 1 of the school statutes summarized the purpose as follows: “... young people who have devoted themselves to the building trade or intend to devote themselves to it, mainly bricklayers, stone masons, carpenters, locksmiths, cloths, carpenters, roofers and slaters, who are the rational To impart the necessary knowledge to businesses in the trade. The drawing lessons given in the school have the further purpose of developing and refining the taste for the benefit of commercial products through drawing exercises based on appropriate samples. "
In order to disrupt the regular work of the students as little as possible, the lessons took place for many years only in the winter months when there was little work. Due to a lack of space, the district building trade school moved into a newly built school building behind the Pfalzgalerie in 1897 and left it entirely to the “Palatinate Trade Museum” . Both buildings were destroyed by the war in 1944 and only the Pfalzgalerie was rebuilt.
From 1897 to 1908 Ferdinand Moser was the director of the building trade school and the museum, Eduard Brill was his successor in 1910. From 1913 on the institute was called "Kreisbauschule" , from 1956 "Palatinate Engineering School for Construction Kaiserslautern" . In 1969, merged with the “State Engineering School for Mechanical Engineering” to form the “State Engineering School for Construction and Mechanical Engineering” , the institute was merged into the University of Kaiserslautern in 1971 . Today's “Master School for Craftsmen in Kaiserslautern” also goes back directly to the former building trade school. It is sponsored by the Palatinate District Association .
Janez Šubic (1850–1889), one of the most renowned painters in Slovenia, was a teacher of decorative arts at the Royal District Building Trade School in Kaiserslautern from 1884–1889, followed by Caspar Augustin Geiger (1847–1924); Theodor von Kramer taught freehand drawing and decorative painting. Gustav Adolf Bernd (1869–1942), who created the famous vintner sculpture next to the Kurhaus Bad Dürkheim , was trained here and later taught sculpture. The impressionist Albert Weisgerber and the architect Hermann Alker also visited the institute as students.
Well-known teachers
- Karl Spatz (1845–1907), director, specialist teacher for building construction, building materials and building symbols
- Ferdinand Moser (1859–1930), director, specialist teacher for shadow construction, perspective and ornamental drawing
- Eduard Brill (1877–1968), director, subject teacher
- Caspar Augustin Geiger (1847–1924), specialist teacher for decorative arts
- Janez Šubic (1850–1889), specialist teacher for decorative arts
- Theodor von Kramer (1852–1927), specialist teacher for freehand drawing and decorative painting
- Eduard Sack (1857–1913), specialist teacher for perspective and shadow constructions
- Gustav Adolf Bernd (1869–1942), specialist teacher for sculpture
Well-known students
- Gustav Adolf Bernd (1869–1942), sculptor
- Albert Weisgerber (1878–1915), painter
- Jakob Jausel (1878–?), Sculptor Kaiserslautern
- Josef Pabst (1879–1950), sculptor
- Rudolf Henn (1880–1955), sculptor
- Friedrich Lutz (1880–1934), sculptor, from Bad Bergzabern , based in Laudenbach (Weikersheim)
- Hermann Alker (1885–1967), architect
literature
- Karl Heinz: 150 years of the Palatinate District Association, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. 1966, pp. 99-107.
- Ute-Konstanze Rasp: The trade museum and the royal district building trade schools and arts and crafts technical schools Kaiserslautern 1874-1918. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , 1995.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website on the history of the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
- ^ Website of the master school for craftsmen in Kaiserslautern
- ^ Janez Subic in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- ^ Website on Adolf Bernd
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia ; Volume 10, p. 501, Munich, 2008; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Stadtzeitung Karlsruhe, report on Hermann Alker's 125th birthday, 2010
- ^ Website on Eduard Sack
- ^ Website on Friedrich Lutz