Eduard Philipp Arnold

Eduard Philipp Arnold (born August 20, 1866 in Mannheim ; † July 29, 1934 in Aachen ) was a German architect , lecturer and author .

Live and act

Eduard Philipp Arnold began teaching as a senior teacher at the building trade school in Aachen on October 1, 1900 , where he taught building history , form theory and building surveying . On January 6, 1908, he became a teacher a year later, Professor appointed in 1925 as Deputy Director. Arnold, who was married to Regina Seibert, retired on August 31, 1931 and died three years later at the age of 67 in Forster Hospital.

Eduard Arnold's research on the history of buildings focused on urban residential buildings. He sketched historical house types in many places, recorded the parcel boundaries of the Aachen streets and registered the house owners during the 19th century. Even before the publication of his work Das Altaachener Wohnhaus , he gave lectures on the history of building methods in Aachen in 1909 to the Aachen Technicians' Association and in 1913 to the Aachen History Association.

His estate is in the city archive of the city of Aachen.

Works (selection)

Buildings and designs

1895–1898: Further construction of the Matthäuskirche (Saarbrücken-Burbach) after the collapse of the church building by Karl Doflein at an early stage of construction in 1892
1894–1895: Competition design for a girls' school in Darmstadt
1899: Competition design for a Protestant church in Krefeld
1900: Competition design for a Protestant church in (Bonn-) Poppelsdorf
1902: Competition design for the college building of the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau (together with Matthias Stamnitz, city architect in Freiburg)
1902–1904: Evangelical Luther Church in Krefeld, Lutherplatz / Melanchthonstraße (preserved with changes, a listed building)
1905: House in Aachen, Nordstrasse / Kardinalstrasse 3

Arnold arranged the staircase diagonally to the other rooms and thus set a new accent.

Administration building of the Talbot wagon factory ( attribution questionable)

Fonts

The old Aachen construction. In: Albert Huyskens (arr.): Aachen. (= Germany's urban development .) 1st edition, Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1922. (printed unchanged in the 2nd edition 1925 and the 3rd edition 1928)
The Altaachen residential building. (= Aachen contributions to architectural history and local art , volume 2.) Aachen History Association, Aachen 1930.

Web links

Personal data on picture index

Individual evidence

^ Estate in the Aachen City Archive , evidence in the Archive in NRW database . Retrieved December 28, 2018 .

^ Institute for current art in Saarland: Saarbrücken-Burbach, Matthäuskirche. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .

^ German competitions , Volume 5, Issue 6

^ German competitions , Volume 10, Issue 10 (= serial no.118) (1900)

^ German competitions , Volume 11, Issue 11

↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , #. Vintage 190 #, No. #, S. #

↑ online on the pages Evangelical in the South , last accessed on February 14, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Arnold, Eduard Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and preservationist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1934
Place of death	Aachen

[1] Estate in the Aachen City Archive , evidence in the Archive in NRW database . Retrieved December 28, 2018 .

[2] Institute for current art in Saarland: Saarbrücken-Burbach, Matthäuskirche. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .

[3] German competitions , Volume 5, Issue 6

[4] German competitions , Volume 10, Issue 10 (= serial no.118) (1900)

[5] German competitions , Volume 11, Issue 11

[6] Deutsche Bauzeitung , #. Vintage 190 #, No. #, S. #

[7] the pages Evangelical in the South , last accessed on February 14, 2016