Emanuel von Seidl

Bust E. v. Seidl, around 1910

Emanuel Seidl , from 1906 by Seidl , (born August 22, 1856 in Munich ; † December 25, 1919 there ) was an architect , interior designer and engineer during the German Empire . Stylistically he was a representative of historicism , but also tended towards certain Art Nouveau elements. He is considered one of the most important Munich architects of the Prince Regent's time .

Life

Emanuel Seidl was born in Munich as the third son of the baker Anton Seidl and his wife Therese, daughter of the brewer Gabriel Sedlmayr. Seidl studied at the Technical University of Munich architecture and later worked as an interior designer u. a. in his brother Gabriel von Seidl's office . Since 1896 he had the title of royal professor. Seidl completed the Muschelsaal in the Augustiner brewery on Neuhauser Strasse in Munich in 1897 as the first major work. In 1901 Seidl built a country house with an English landscape garden in Murnau am Staffelsee (demolished in 1972). In 1906, Emanuel Seidl was raised to the Bavarian nobility of knight as one of the leading villa architects in southern Germany and carried the name Emanuel von Seidl. In 1916 he married Maria Agnes Luberich (1871–1935), the marriage remained childless.

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Memorial plaques to Emanuel Seidl, town hall of Murnau am Staffelsee

Emanuel von Seidl was a successful villa architect between 1900 and 1918 and was known far beyond the borders of his hometown Munich . 180 works in and around Munich and in the Saxon Ore Mountains region are recorded, around a third of which are large country houses and villas, of which around 60 are still standing. Examples are the Seidlvilla (also Villa Lauterbacher) on Nikolaiplatz in Munich's Schwabing district and his own villa built in 1897/98 (Bavariaring 10, Ludwigvorstadt ). Richard Strauss's most important private houses include the one for Richard Strauss in Garmisch with a built-in, generously glazed bay window with a view of the Alps, and the Wolfsbrunn manor in Stein near Hartenstein on the Zwickauer Mulde , which, according to contemporary opinion, is the last and richest, but also the most purposeful and mature of his buildings for the mining company Georg Wolf.

Other objects were e.g. B. a city villa for the physician and university professor Hermann von Tappeiner (end of the 19th century), which was later used as the administration building of the Mannheim life insurance , the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich (1899), the elephant house in Munich's Hellabrunn zoo , between 1900 and In 1907 the east wing of Sigmaringen Castle , the facade of the Munich Theresien-Gymnasium , the ballroom in the Deutsches Museum and the classicist Art Nouveau building built in 1911 at Widenmayerstraße 25 / 25a in the Lehel district .

His major construction projects included spa hotels, club buildings, but also the buildings of the German Department at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1910.

After the death of his brother Gabriel von Seidl in 1913, Emanuel von Seidl oversaw the large Deutsches Museum project until his own death in 1919.

Seidl showed decorative talents in many exhibition designs, while Hellabrunn still impressively demonstrates Seidl's sensitive handling of the landscape and his instinct for embedding buildings in the landscape. He also designed the Murnauer Park in the style of an English landscape garden .

The southern German architect, however, tended more towards the playful neo-baroque eclecticism than the sober or even heavily unadorned in Württemberg, such as the historicism of the Stuttgart main station by Paul Bonatz . From his trip to Italy, Seidl brought the playfulness of Italianità to the Munich architecture office. He used these ideas in his works , such as painted trellis or Lüftlmalerei in the courtyard of the Augustinerbräus.

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  Augustinerbräu , Neuhauser Strasse , Munich

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  The Strauss Villa , built for the composer Richard Strauss from 1907/1908 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  The elephant house in Hellabrunn Zoo , Munich, as a postcard motif, 1932

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  State Theater on Gärtnerplatz , 2017

Fonts

• My country house. Alexander Koch, Darmstadt 1910, ( digitized from ULB Düsseldorf ).
• My city and country house. Alexander Koch, Darmstadt 1919.

literature

• W. Frank: Emanuel v. Seidl's Huthaus in Oelsnitz. In: German art and decoration , Volume 15, Issue 8 publishing house Alexander Koch , Darmstadt 1912, p 118-122, doi : 10.11588 / diglit.7108.17 , Digitalisat the Heidelberg University Library , the original photo of the meeting room in the clubhouse from the German Museum .
• Joanna Waltraud Kunstmann: Emanuel von Seidl (1856–1919). The villas and country houses. Dissertation at the University of Munich 1993. scaneg-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89235-251-8 , table of contents.
• Heino Neuber: Emanuel v. Seidl's Huthaus in Oelsnitz. On the creation and design of the hat house of the German trade union in Oelsnitz (Erzgebirge) as an important Art Nouveau building in our homeland. In: Die Turmstütze , No. 25, 2010, ISSN  2193-2719 .
• Heino Neuber: “It should be simple, characteristic and comfortable.” The hat house of the German trade union in Oelsnitz based on plans by Emanuel von Seidl. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , 2010, No. 4.
• Heino Neuber: How the mining entrepreneur Dr. Georg Wolf - a dividend of his life (2nd part). In: Die Turmstütze , 2014, No. 33, ISSN  2193-2719 .
• Brigitte Salmen, Annette Splieth (Editor): Promised Land. Emanuel von Seidl, park landscape in Murnau. Then and now - photos, documents, relics. Catalog for the exhibition in the Murnau Castle Museum from December 22, 1993 to March 13, 1994. Murnau Castle Museum, ISBN 978-3-9803816-2-8 .
• Gabriele Schickel:  Seidl, Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 181 f. ( Digitized version ).
• GJ Wolf: Wolfsbrunn Castle in Stein, built by Prof. Dr. Emanuel v. Seidl †. In: Innen-Dekor , edited by Hofrat Alexander Koch , 32nd year, January – February 1921, pp. 2–11, doi : 10.11588 / diglit.10457.3 , digital copy from Heidelberg University Library.
• GJ Wolf: Wolfsbrunn Castle in the Ore Mountains. The interiors of the castle. [Image attachment.] In: Innen-Decoration , edited by Hofrat Alexander Koch, 32nd year, April 1921, pp. 106–111, doi : 10.11588 / diglit.10457.56 , digital copy from Heidelberg University Library.

Movie

• Villas for the summer vacation. The architect Emanuel von Seidl. Documentary, Germany, 2001, 43:06 min., Script and director: Gabriele Dinsenbacher , camera: Hermann Reichmann, production: Bayerischer Rundfunk , synopsis by ARD .

Web links

Commons : Emanuel von Seidl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Emanuel von Seidl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Emanuel von Seidl. In: murnau.de
• Emanuel von Seidl. In: arch INFORM .
• 100th anniversary of death. Emanuel von Seidl: darling of fine society. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 24, 2019, portrait.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Görl: 100th anniversary of death. Emanuel von Seidl: darling of fine society. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 24, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Gabriele Loges (gl): Representatives of historicism characterize the castle. A lecture about the architect Emanuel von Seidl closes the Sigmaringer Kulturherbst . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , December 8, 2011, online source reference , (subject to payment).
3. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier, Murnau: 100th anniversary. The villa is gone. Murnauer are reminiscent of the architect Emanuel von Seidl. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 16, 2019.
4. ^ Gabriele Schickel:  Seidl, Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 181 f. ( Digitized version ).