Bruno Seitler

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Carl Bruno Seitler (born October 25, 1851 in Dresden ; † December 11, 1925 there ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Bruno Seitler was born as the son of master potter Karl Gottlob Seitler and his wife Christine Erna Caroline in Dresden, learned the mason trade and attended the building trade school in Dresden . From 1871 to 1874 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy under Georg Hermann Nicolai , co-founder of the Semper Nicolai School . Seitler graduated with honors and received the "Rome Prize", a scholarship that he used in 1877 for a study trip to Paris, Greece and Italy.

After his return he worked as an assistant teacher at the building trade school in Chemnitz and married Elisabeth Blüher. From this marriage two sons emerged: Carl Gustav Seitler, who also took up a construction profession, and Erich Friedrich Seitler, who embarked on a military career. In 1897 he was appointed professor at the Dresden building trade school, which he took over in 1905. In 1910 the school was renamed the "Royal Building School", after 1918 the State Building School. It was on St.-Privat-Strasse (today Paul-Schwarze-Strasse) in Dresden-Neustadt . Seitler received the title of (royal) building councilor . In 1920 he retired .

Buildings and designs

House Veilchenweg 19 in Dresden
Hamburger Hof in Meißen (2011)
Waldheim town hall

and undated:

  • Villa Eliasstrasse 6 in Dresden (destroyed in 1945)
  • Villa in Radebeul-Oberlößnitz , Wilhelmstrasse
  • Villa in Neudörfchen near Meißen
  • Metzler department store in Dresden, on Altmarkt (destroyed in 1945)
  • Ritter department store in Dresden, Marschallstrasse 3 (destroyed in 1945)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toralf Grau: Memory of the architect of the "Hamburger Hof". In: Meißner Tageblatt from November 20, 2015 (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  2. ↑ SZ from April 12 , 2016 : Research on the Hamburger Hof (based on information from Roswitha Schäfer) (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  3. ↑ Christian Ruf: Rome Prize Winner, Royal Building Council, Architect. In: DNN , No. 178 from August 1, 2016, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Stadtwiki Dresden: State Building School (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  5. ↑ Dresden districts Veilchenweg (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  6. ↑ Dresden districts church Weißer Hirsch (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  7. ↑ Bad Weißer Hirsch Church (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  8. ↑ Image as PDF on www.porphyr-rochlitz.de , last accessed on March 15, 2020
  9. ^ Daniel Ristau: Plans to build a new synagogue in Dresden, in Medaon, 2007 (Issue 1) (accessed on August 2, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Seitler, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seitler, Carl Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1925
Place of death Dresden