Boldt & Frings

Boldt & Frings was a Düsseldorf architectural community in the historicist era , to which the two architects August Boldt and Josef Frings united .

Act

Boldt & Frings burial site

The office drafted plans for buildings mainly in Düsseldorf, but also in other places. The architect Hermann vom Endt (1861–1939) worked for them at times. A tomb on the mound of the Düsseldorf North Cemetery , which was built for the Boldt and Frings families, commemorates the two Düsseldorf architects and their families. The address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf mentions Boldt, August Architekt for the years 1878, 1886, 1892 and 1894 ... Company: Boldt & Frings, Leopoldstr. 9 or for the years 1888 and 1890 Boldt and Frings .

Buildings and designs

1880: Main building for the trade and art exhibition 1880 in Düsseldorf
1883: Coppel & Goldschmidt company building , Mittelstrasse 18 in Düsseldorf
1884: Competition design for the building of the St. Gallische Kantonalbank in St. Gallen (not executed)
1884–1885: Building for the Bergisch-Märkische Bank , Königsplatz 15/16 in Düsseldorf
1885/1886: Ernst Cramer's house , Hofgartenstrasse 6/7 in Düsseldorf
1888: Louis Alsberg's office building , 18 Schadowstrasse in Düsseldorf
1888: A. Ballauf company building, Schadowstrasse 13/15 in Düsseldorf
1908: Competition design for a new lodge building for the Freemason's lodge "Alfred zur Linde" in Essen (awarded 2nd prize)
Residential building at Hofgartenstrasse 14 in Düsseldorf

House Hofgartenstrasse 6
House Hofgartenstrasse 6, floor plan
House Schadowstrasse 18
House Hofgartenstrasse 14
House Hofgartenstrasse 14, floor plan

literature

Brief biographies of the architects and builders . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 527 .
Willy Weyres, Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century 1800–1880. Cologne 1968, p. 34.

Web links

Commons : Boldt & Frings - collection of images, videos and audio files

Tomb of the Boldt & Frings families in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery on deutsches-architektur-forum.de

Individual evidence

^ Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: German biographical encyclopedia. KG Saur, Munich 2000, p. 112.
↑ search.ancestry.com
^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 348.
↑ Commentary on a design drawing in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin; Retrieved November 24, 2010
^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 361f.
^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 338
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 29, April 11, 1908, p. 212, rubric “Miscellaneous”, digitized - according to whose design the new building was finally carried out is not documented.

[1] Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: German biographical encyclopedia. KG Saur, Munich 2000, p. 112.

[2] search.ancestry.com

[3] Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 348.

[4] Commentary on a design drawing in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin; Retrieved November 24, 2010

[5] Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 361f.

[6] Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 338

[7] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 29, April 11, 1908, p. 212, rubric “Miscellaneous”, digitized - according to whose design the new building was finally carried out is not documented.