Carl Wolff (architect)

This article deals with the architect and monument conservator Carl Wolff (1860–1929). For information on architects and construction officials (1820–1876) see Carl Wolf (architect) .

Carl Wolff (* 1. January 1860 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † 25. February 1929 in Munich ) was a German architect , preservationist , municipal construction officer, Mr and author and publisher who primarily in Frankfurt and Hannover worked .

Life

Wolff studied architecture and art history at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . His teachers included Friedrich Adler , Julius Raschdorff and Carl Schäfer . After Wolff had passed his second state examination, he was appointed government architect ( Assessor ) in 1886 .

Wolff lived and worked in this role in Cosel and Königsberg until 1890 . In the middle of this year Wolff was appointed city ​​architect for the city of Frankfurt am Main. As such, as a building construction assistant and later as a building inspector, he built numerous municipal buildings such as hospitals, insane asylums and indoor swimming pools, and dealt with the preservation of monuments.

From 1898 Wolff worked for the provincial administration in Hanover as a state building officer and designed the new building for the insane asylum in Lüneburg and the midwifery school (Landesfrauenklinik) in Hanover (1901/1902). From 1899 he was editor of the inventory of art monuments of the province of Hanover, 1901–1908 editor of the journal of the Architects and Engineers Association of Hanover .

In 1902, Carl Wolff became the city ​​planner for Hanover, an office that he had to give up in 1914 due to illness. From 1905 Wolff was also a member of the provincial parliament . Wolff spent his last years in Munich, where he died at the age of 69 on February 25, 1929.

Wollf's architectural work is characterized in style by the transition from historicism to neo-baroque and art nouveau . An example of this is one of his most important buildings, the Goseriedebad in Hanover, which was built between 1902 and 1905.

Works

Buildings (selection)

Catholic Boniface School from 1902

Citizens' school, called Comenius School

Goseriedebad

• Provincial insane asylum in Lüneburg
• Comenius School in Hanover on Bonifatiusplatz (1899, with Paul Rowald ; listed)
• Bonifatiusschule in Hanover on Bonifatiusplatz (1902, with Paul Rowald; listed)
• Provincial midwifery training institute (later state women's clinic) in Hanover-Herrenhausen (1901/1902)
• New racetrack on the Bult in Hanover (not preserved)
• Goseriedebad in Hanover (1902–1905; today a museum building for the Kestner Society )
• Carl Wolff house in Hanover, Ellernstraße 13 (with a wolf's head in sandstone as an allusion to the client's name; listed)
• Festive arch for the Imperial Days (visit by Kaiser Wilhelm II) in Hanover, Bahnhofstrasse (1907, not preserved)
• School and preparatory institute (later the Ricarda Huch School ) in Hanover, Bonifatiusplatz (1907, with Paul Rowald ; listed)
• Higher Töchterschule I (later Wilhelm Raabe School) in Hanover, Langensalzastraße 24 (1907/1908, with Otto Ruprecht ; with image program Like breeding, like fruit )

Fonts

• with Rudolf Jung : The Imperial Cathedral in Frankfurt am Main. A building history representation. Carl Jügel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1892.
• with Rudolf Jung: The architectural monuments in Frankfurt am Main. First volume. Church buildings , Völcker-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1896 ( digitized PDF).
• with Rudolf Jung: The architectural monuments in Frankfurt am Main. Second volume. Secular buildings , Völcker-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1898 ( digitized PDF).
• The municipal swimming pool in Frankfurt a. M. Bergsträsser, Stuttgart 1897.
• The art monuments of the province of Hanover. (Ed. On behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Carl Wolff) Hanover 1899–1927.
  • Districts of Hanover and Linden. 1899.
  • with Anton von Behr and Uvo Hölscher : Volume II: Hildesheim district. 1st and 2nd city ​​of Goslar. 1901 ( archive.org ).
  • with Heinrich Fischer , Fritz Traugott Schulz , Volume III: Government district Lüneburg. 1. Districts of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel. With 2 plates and 62 text illustrations, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulze's Buchhandlung, Hanover 1902; (PDF, forgottenbooks.com or archive.org ).
  • City of Lueneburg. 1906.
• Public bathing establishments. Göschen, Leipzig 1908 (and more often).

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Hanover

literature

• Wolff, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 212 .
• Franz Rudolf Zankl: Carl Wolff (1860-1929). Hanover's City Planning Council between historicism and new objectivity. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New Series, Volume 38 (1985), pp. 105-126.
• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1995-2003, ISBN 3-598-23160-1 , Volume 10, p. 570.
• Helmut Knocke: Wolff, Carl. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 394 ( books.google.de ).
• Helmut Knocke: Wolff, Carl. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 684.
• Franz Rudolf Zankl: The Goseriedebad, a Hanoverian contribution to Art Nouveau. The career of a monument. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony. 8th year 1988, pp. 44-49.
• Klaus Dieckmann, Thomas Schmidt: The Goseriedebad. A Hanoverian indoor swimming pool from the Art Nouveau era. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. New Series, Volume 45 (1991), pp. 1-85.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanover. Art and culture lexicon. Handbook and city guide. 3rd, revised edition Schäfer, Hannover 1995, pp. 111–112 (Goseriedebad).
• Thomas Zeller: The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921606-51-9 , p. 404.

Web links

Commons : Carl Wolff  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
• 100 years of Goseriedebad on the side of the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerd Weiß: School and university buildings. In: City of Hanover, Part 1. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 10.1.) Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 19.
2. ↑ Chamber of Architects Lower Saxony (ed.), Hermann Boockhoff, Jürgen Knotz (arrangement): Architecture in Hanover since 1900. Callwey, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7667-0599-7 , G 1-3 (schools on Bonifatiusplatz).