Carl Ludwig Theodor Graff

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Carl Graff
Graff's grave in Dresden

Carl Ludwig Theodor Graff (born May 4, 1844 in Grabow ; † February 25, 1906 in Leipzig ) was a German architect.

Life

Carl Graff was the son of a businessman. After attending the Schwerin secondary school, he received his first building lesson from his uncle, the court building officer Georg Adolf Demmler in Schwerin. He then studied architecture at the Hanover Polytechnic from 1861 to 1864 , then at the Berlin Building Academy until 1867 . He passed the state examination with distinction. At the beginning of his professional career, he worked on drafts for church buildings and was involved in restoration work on Güstrow Cathedral , Schwerin Cathedral and the renovation of Paulskirche (Schwerin) under Theodor Krüger .

In 1870 Carl Graff went to Vienna . In 1872 he took over the management of the architecture department for the Vienna World Exhibition . In 1873 he himself took part in the exhibition and in the same year in the exhibition for Austrian applied arts with a historical hunting cabinet, a desk and a mirror. Another important work was the design of the Vienna central building yard. He was involved in the new construction of the Vienna Opera and the court museums. In 1874 Carl Graff was appointed professor at the Dresden School of Modeling, Ornamental and Pattern Drawing. He managed it until 1905. Under his leadership, the arts and crafts department was separated from the polytechnic and an independent arts and crafts school was founded, the Royal Saxon Arts and Crafts School , of which he was director until 1905. He ensured that all branches of the arts and crafts were included and for the first time founded a class for theater decoration.

Graff himself led a master class in architecture. He succeeded in combining the Royal Museum of Applied Arts and the Royal Decorative Arts Library with the School of Applied Arts. He designed furniture, carpets, fabrics, kitchen utensils, jewelery, books, ceramics and clocks and, in 1877/78, commissioned the Meissen porcelain factory to develop a blue-painted decor for a dining and coffee service.

Carl Graff founded the Dresden Arts and Crafts Association in 1877, of which he was the director, and was chairman of the Official Expert Association.

In 1897 Carl Graff was honored with the title of Royal Saxon Privy Councilor. In 1900 he was a member of the committee for the Paris World Exhibition .

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3479 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Ludwig Theodor Graff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon