Eduard Fürstenau
Eduard Fürstenau (born January 21, 1862 in Marburg , † May 26, 1938 in Berlin ; full name: Eduard August Wilhelm Fürstenau ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer .
Life
After studying architecture from 1879 to 1883 at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , he passed the first state examination in 1884 and the second state examination with distinction in 1888. In 1887 he received an award in the Schinkel competition for his design of an “art academy and art exhibition hall in Berlin” with the motto “Bad as right” , and in the same year he won the “Museum of Fine Arts for a provincial town with 50,000 inhabitants” Great academic state award of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , which was linked to a scholarship for a two-year study trip that took him to Italy and the Orient from 1889 to 1890.
Fürstenau entered the Prussian civil service in 1890. He later carried the title of Government and Building Councilor and from 1905 headed the technical office of the building construction department in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin. In 1916 he was transferred to the Prussian Academy of construction called and went to the 1927 retirement .
Eduard Fürstenau died in Berlin in 1938 at the age of 76 and was buried in the hereditary funeral of the Kochhann family in the Luisenstadt cemetery , because his wife was a granddaughter of Heinrich Kochhann .
Buildings (selection)
- Synagogue in Dortmund , Hiltropwall, competition 1896, completed 1900, demolished in October 1938
- Criminal court in Berlin- Charlottenburg , Kantstrasse 79, 1896–1897, (other parties involved in the building administration: Adolf Bürckner )
- Headquarters of the Royal Railway Directorate in Halle , plans from 1899, built 1901/1902, (other participants within the building management: Paul Thoemer )
- Synagogue in Bielefeld , competition in 1902, completed in 1905, destroyed in 1938
- Service villa for the Prussian Minister of Commerce in Berlin, 1903–1904 (other parties involved in the building management: Paul Kieschke )
- Design of the bridgeheads of the Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam with monumental sandstone architecture , 1905–1907, colonnades in the style of the Potsdam City Palace , sculptural jewelry by Stephan Walter
- Prussian Higher Administrative Court in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Hardenbergstrasse 31, 1905–1907 (other parties involved in the building management: Paul Kieschke, Paul Thoemer)
- Royal Academy in Poznan , 1905–1910, today Collegium Minus of the University of Poznan
- Artistic advice on the design of the Edertalsperre dam , started in 1914, completed in 1922, rebuilt after war damage
- Secret State Archives in Berlin- Dahlem , Archivstrasse, started in 1914, completed in 1924, rebuilt after war damage
- Renovation of the Berlin State Opera in the years 1926–1928
Plans and projects
In the architecture museum of the Technical University of Berlin there are detailed plans for the above. realized buildings by Fürstenau. There are also six designs as part of the so-called “monthly competitions”, including a funeral chapel , a bathhouse or sketches to improve the situation of the [triangular] traffic island on the Potsdamer Bridge .
Web links
- Ifa architect database: Eduard Fürstenau
- Article on Eduard Fürstenau in the Berlin district lexicon (www.luise-berlin.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 125 A Technisches Oberprüfungsamt No. 281.
- ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 125 A Technisches Oberprüfungsamt No. 281.
- ^ Eduard Fürstenau: Drawings for the reconstruction of the State Opera in the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin
- ^ Eduard Fürstenau - plans in the architecture museum of the Technical University of Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fürstenau, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fürstenau, Eduard August Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1938 |
| Place of death | Berlin |