Curt Herfurth

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Facade detail at Hoyerswerdaer Straße 39 in Dresden, with Herfurth's architect's signature (right)

Curt Herfurth (born April 21, 1880 in Dresden ; † April 2, 1942 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Herfurth first completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and attended a building trade school at the same time . At the age of 24 he began studying architecture at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1904 he became a member of the Corps Lusatia Dresden. Ernst Herrmann and Paul Wallot were among his teachers . Herfurth graduated successfully in 1907. He took part in various architecture competitions and finally won the competition to build an elementary school in Rockau . With the prize money, Herfurth founded his own architecture office and worked as a freelance architect from 1910. Herfurth soon specialized in housing developments that were being built all over Dresden. His buildings include those of the Briesnitz housing estate and the residential complexes on Hansastraße and Conradstraße. In Löbtau, Herfurth designed the residential courtyard of the railway construction cooperative on Malterstrasse and Essener Strasse. The characteristic element of his buildings was the use of clinker brick as a decorative element in the style of Expressionism .

In addition to residential and residential group buildings, Herfurth created churches, monasteries, administrative buildings, schools, hospitals, commercial buildings, factories, high-rise buildings, gyms and single-family houses, especially in his most productive period, the 1920s. This also includes his first own house, Eisenstuckstraße 39 in Dresden, which Herfurth built in 1924. It was destroyed in 1945.

When Herfurth became seriously ill in the mid-1930s, he had to give up his work as an architect. He died in Dresden in 1942.

Buildings (selection)

Hansastraße settlement
Residential yard of the railway construction cooperative
Chemical factory v. Heyden, Forststrasse, 2008
  • 1910: Residential and commercial building at Hoyerswerdaer Strasse 39 in Dresden
  • around 1910: Town hall in Auerbach / Vogtland
  • around 1910: Hospital of the Brothers Institution in Moritzburg
  • 1911–1913: Vierlinden residential estate in Briesnitz
  • 1912: Gym in (Dresden-) Stetzsch
  • 1916–1939: Settlement of the building cooperative fireworks laboratory in Radeberg
  • 1919–1921: Mohorner Strasse / Frankenbergstrasse residential group in Dresden-Löbtau
  • 1922: Residential development at Frankenbergstrasse 34–36 in Dresden-Löbtau
  • 1922–1924: House at Mockritzer Strasse 8 in Dresden
  • 1924: House at Eisenstuckstraße 39 in Dresden (destroyed, preserved portal integrated into the new building)
  • 1924: House at Nöthnitzer Strasse 36 in Dresden
  • 1924–1927: Expansion of the Dresden-Briesnitz cooperative settlement
  • 1926: Hansastraße settlement in Dresden
  • 1926: Conradstrasse residential complex in Dresden
  • 1926: House at Deubener Strasse 10 in Dresden
  • 1926: Houses at Zauckeroder Strasse 4–6 and 8–10, Wallwitzstrasse 27–29 in Dresden
  • 1926: Cooperative home at Frankenberger Strasse 60 in Dresden
  • 1926–1927: Group of residential buildings at Frankenberger Strasse 52–58 in Dresden
  • 1927: Courtyard of the railway workers' building cooperative in Dresden
  • 1927: Housing complex in Dresden-Cotta, Lönsweg / Grillparzerstraße
  • 1928–1929: Group of houses in Dresden-Strehlen, Teplitzer Strasse / Mockritzer Strasse
  • 1934: Production building Forststraße in Radebeul ( attribution uncertain)
  • Group of houses on Leutewitzer Strasse in Dresden-Cotta
  • Residential house group of the railway construction cooperative on Vorwerkstrasse in Dresden-Friedrichstadt
  • Bethlehemstift in Neudorf (Ore Mountains)
  • Villa Reinwart in Neuwelt
  • Borna settlement of the Chemnitz railway construction cooperative
  • Hilbersdorf settlement of the Chemnitz railway construction cooperative
  • Group of houses in Dresden-Gruna, Zwinglistraße / Schneebergstraße
  • Villa for the factory owner A. Hoffmeister in Neustadt (Saxony)
  • Residential house group of the railway construction cooperative in Dresden, Münchner Strasse 40–60

literature

  • Hermann Heine (introduction): Curt Herfurth. (= Neue Werkkunst ) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig 1928.
  • Tom Henke: Architects in Cotta. Part 1: Curt Herfurth and his buildings . In: Cottaer Froschpost , No. 1/2007, pp. 6-7.
  • Bernhard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2011, p. 82, p. 184.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, no.1824
  2. ^ Hermann Heine (introduction): Curt Herfurth. (see literature )
personal data
SURNAME Herfurth, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1942
Place of death Dresden