Carl Zaar

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Carl Zaar (born March 17, 1849 in Cologne , † January 16, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Zaar was a student of Julius Carl Raschdorff and subsequently studied at the Berlin Building Academy . His younger brother was August Leo Zaar .

After successfully completing his studies, he worked successively for the art historian Ferdinand Luthmer (in Frankfurt am Main ), the architect Hubert Stier (in Hanover ) and at the Berlin construction office Ende & Böckmann of the architects Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann .

At the age of 33, Zaar started his own business in Berlin in 1882. In the years 1882 to 1887 he designed several hotel buildings in Berlin in collaboration with the architect Johann Mathias von Holst ; z. B. the Grand Hotel Alexanderplatz and the Altstädter Hof on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße.

When von Holst left the partnership in 1887, Rudolf Vahl became his successor. With him, Zaar was largely entrusted with work on the zoological garden in Berlin from 1901 to 1910 . The two were responsible for the administration building, the main portal, the orchestra stand and the aquarium .

Carl Zaar also worked as a teacher at the Berlin building trade school.

plant

buildings

Grand Hotel Alexanderplatz in Berlin, 1910
  • 1887–1888: Town hall in Oldenburg (together with Mathias von Holst; executed by Carl Franz Noack )
  • 1896: Competition design for the Kurhaus in Westerland on Sylt (together with Rudolf Vahl and Emanuel Heimann; awarded 2nd prize)
  • 1902–1903: vestibule as an extension of the chapel at the Grunewald cemetery in Berlin (together with Rudolf Vahl)
  • 1908: Evangelical Church in Eichwalde

Fonts

  • (together with August L. Zaar): Business and department stores, department stores and mess palaces, passages and galleries. (= Handbook of Architecture , Part IV, 2nd half volume, Volume 2.) Arnold Bergsträsser Verlag Buchhandlung A. Kröner, Stuttgart 1902.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the Oldenburg Town Hall at www.oldenburg-tourist.de , accessed on February 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 16, 1896, No. 20 (from May 18, 1896) ( online ), p. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Zaar, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1924
Place of death Berlin