Claus Mehs
Claus Mehs (born November 30, 1866 in Wittlich , † December 18, 1946 in Lindenfels in the Odenwald ; full name: Andreas Nicolaus Mehs ) was a German architect .
Mehs studied at the Technical University of Hanover with Conrad Wilhelm Hase and worked as a freelance architect in Frankfurt am Main from 1897 . Numerous houses, villas and country houses in the Rhine-Main area come from him. He was entrusted with the construction management of the renovation and partial new construction of the Roman . As an architectural historian, Mehs dealt with the recording and reconstruction of historical buildings. In the 1930s, for example, he made building recordings of houses in Frankfurt's old town as well as classical buildings on behalf of the Frankfurt Cultural Office.
His estate is in the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt am Main.
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Buildings and designs
- 1902–1904: Hohe Mark Sanatorium in Oberursel
- 1902–1904: Villa Meßmer in Alzenau
- 1911: Neoclassical villa, Broßstrasse 5
Fonts
- with Fritz Rupp : The planning of university buildings. Memorandum. Published by the Frankfurt branch of the Association of German Architects. Frankfurt am Main no year (around 1910).
literature
- Mehs, Nikolaus (Klaus) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 338-339 .
Web links
- FEDERAL ARCHIVE - Central database for estates In: nachlassdatenbank.de . Retrieved on August 30, 2016 (information about the estate of Claus Mehs (listed as "Klaus Mehs") in the Institute for City History Frankfurt).
- Mehs, Claus. Hessian biography. (As of February 14, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Mehs, Claus in the Frankfurt Personal Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the Lindenfels registry office No. 64/1946.
- ↑ Proof of monument conservation work and own buildings
- ↑ Angelika Baeumerth: Oberursel am Taunus. A city story. Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 272.
- ↑ villa-messmer.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehs, Claus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mehs, Andreas Nicolaus (full name); Mehs, Klaus (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittlich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1946 |
| Place of death | Lindenfels |