Eduard Brill

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Eduard Brill (born November 2, 1877 in Munich , † December 16, 1968 in Würzburg ) was a German architect and craftsman who also worked as a technical school director and museum director.

Life

Brill studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . He started out as a construction officer in the Bavarian civil service and worked from 1900 to 1903 as a trainee lawyer at the Landbauamt Nürnberg . After passing the second state examination, he worked as a building authority assessor in Passau from 1903 to 1905 . From 1905 to 1908 he worked as an assistant to Theodor Fischer in Stuttgart . In 1908, Fischer commissioned him with the construction management of his Ulm garrison church , which was completed in November 1910.

In 1910 Eduard Brill was appointed rector of the district building trade school in Kaiserslautern (from 1913 district building and craft school in Kaiserslautern ) and at the same time director of the Palatinate Trade Museum , which is closely associated with the school . He stayed in Kaiserslautern , where he also worked as an architect until he went to Nuremberg (before 1928) as director of the State School for Applied Arts .

Eduard Brill held the title of professor by 1928 at the latest ; he was a member of the Association of German Architects and the German Werkbund .

Brill was his first marriage to the craftsperson and interior designer Hedwig Brill geb. Gmelin († 1924) married, the couple had three children. He later married the painter and graphic artist Rosa Ulsamer (* 1884 in Nuremberg; also Rosa Brill-Ulsamer ).

Buildings and designs

  • 1898/1899: Draft for a villa for a painter (colored perspective; probably study assignment)
  • 1913: Villa Jaenisch in Kaiserslautern, Villenstrasse 6/8
  • 1914–1915: Extension of the Palatinate Trade Museum (today's Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern ) in Kaiserslautern
  • 1919–1925: Apartment buildings in the so-called Bunter Block in Kaiserslautern
  • 1927–1928: Summer house for a large family in Kampen (Sylt Island)

literature

  • Brill, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 315 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Brill. In: arch INFORM . (Life data)
  2. ↑ a b c Directory of members of the Deutscher Werkbund, as of April 1928
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Eduard Brill in: "archthek" - Historisches Architektenregister, section Brech - Brix , online: http://www.kmkbuecholdt.de/historisches/haben/architekten_bre.htm (as of February 3, 2012, last accessed on February 7, 2012)
  4. ^ Ulrich Bücholdt: Women in Architecture. online: http://www.kmkbuecholdt.de/historisches/sonstiges/Architektinnen1.htm (as of December 16, 2011; last accessed on February 7, 2012)
  5. ↑ Illustration of the sheet at www.artnet.de , last accessed on February 7, 2012
  6. ↑ Page on the Pfalzgalerie in the Kaiserslautern architectural guide for the history and theory of architecture teaching and research area at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern , last accessed on February 7, 2012
  7. ↑ color scheme. A model district. In: Bundesbaublatt , year 2011, issue 11 ( online , last accessed on February 7, 2012)
  8. ↑ compare: List of cultural monuments in Kaiserslautern - Monument zone Königstraße 54–82 (even numbers), 71–85 (odd numbers)
  9. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 65th year 1931, No. 25/26 (from March 25, 1931), p. 159f.
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 16th December 1968
Place of death Wurzburg