Emil Franz Hansel

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Emil Franz Hänsel (born April 6, 1870 in Döbeln ; † October 21, 1943 in Leipzig ) was a German architect whose work belongs stylistically to the outgoing historicism , Art Nouveau and reform architecture .

Life

Grave site of the Emil Franz Hänsel family in Leipzig's southern cemetery (2011)

Hansel completed training at the Royal Saxon Building Trade School in Leipzig . He then worked for Hugo Licht , Leipzig City Planning Council, and was involved in the planning of the New Town Hall . His main activity remained Leipzig, where he was the busiest independent architect before the First World War . Between 1898 and 1938 he was involved in over 500 building projects for more than 300 clients.

Hänsel's most important works were commercial buildings, such as the “Brühl” department store (the original building of the later “Blechbüchse” ) or the Specks Hof , Zentralmessepalast and König-Albert-Haus exhibition centers . In the design competition for the site of the 1913 International Building Exhibition , Hänsel received second prize in 1911 after Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer . Other buildings were the Israelite old people's home and the factories for Ludwig Hupfeld AG in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg .

Emil Franz Hänsel lived in a house he designed himself at Christianstrasse 1, which has been preserved. He was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Apollo . Hansel died in Leipzig and is buried in the Südfriedhof .

buildings

“Art ad” in the 1908 Leipzig calendar. The picture shows the residential and office building at Christianstrasse 1, in which Hansel's architectural office was located.

In Leipzig

  • 1899/1900: Reconstruction of the social hall in Lindenau , Karl-Heine-Straße 50 (today Schaubühne Lindenfels )
  • 1900: Extension ("Small Hall") of the Lindenau Society Hall , Hähnelstrasse 27 (formerly Hermannstrasse) in Lindenau
  • 1906–1908: "Brühl" department store, Brühl 1 (demolished in 2010 except for a 15-meter-wide section of the facade)
  • 1908–1910: “ Specks Hof ” exhibition center , Reichsstrasse 6
  • 1905/1910: Dietzoldwerke, Franz-Flemming-Straße 9 in Leutzsch
  • 1910/1911: Ludwig Hupfeld AG factories , Ludwig-Hupfeld-Strasse 16 in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg
  • 1911: Hotel "Continental", Georgiring 13
  • 1911–1913: Conversion of the Hotel Fürstenhof , Tröndlinring 8
  • 1912: "Linoleumhaus" exhibition center, Neumarkt 7 (destroyed)
  • 1912: "Joseph Konsum" department store for the consumer association Leipzig-Plagwitz and the surrounding area , Karl-Heine-Straße 46 (expanded to Josephstraße in 1913 and 1929/30)
  • 1912/1913: Schrödter office building, Neumarkt 31/33
  • 1912–1914: “ Zentralmessepalast ” exhibition center , Neumarkt 4
  • 1913: " König-Albert-Haus ", Markt 9
  • 1913/1914: Commercial buildings at Nikolaistraße 55 and 57/59
  • 1924: Israelite retirement home of the Julius Ariowitsch Foundation , Hinrichsenstrasse 14 (formerly Auenstrasse)
  • 1929/30: House of the Barmenia Insurance Company at Springerstraße 24, from 1946 headquarters of the Central German Broadcasting Corporation ( Funkhaus Springerstraße )
  • Residential houses:
    • Villa Richard Linnemann, Springerstraße 2
    • Villa Ludwig Hupfeld , Lumumbastraße 11/13 (1910; formerly Döllnitzer Straße)
    • Christianstrasse 1, 3rd floor
    • Liviastraße 6, 7
    • Jahnallee 10/12 (formerly Ranstädter Steinweg 42/44)
    • Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 6
    • Floßplatz 26 (1910)
    • Kurt-Eisner-Strasse 5 / 5a (1911; formerly Kronprinzstrasse)
    • Kurt-Eisner-Strasse 48
    • August-Bebel-Strasse 77 (1905; formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse)
    • August-Bebel-Straße 79/81 (double house, right half [No. 81] destroyed)
    • Kantstrasse 11, 13 (1905/06)
    • Kantstraße 15/17 (semi-detached house, destroyed)
    • Franckestraße 1 (residential building with post office)
    • "Waldfrieden" settlement of the building association for the procurement of cheap apartments, Heilemannstrasse (1936; formerly Papestrasse; single and multi-family houses, together with Gero Schilde)

In Dresden

  • 1912: Residenz department store , Prager Strasse / Waisenhausstrasse, burned out in 1945, the expandable ruin (moderately damaged) demolished between 1950 and 1953
  • Buildings by Emil Franz Hänsel

  • "Brühl" department store (1908)

  • "Specks Hof" trade fair palace (around 1910)

  • Hupfeld piano factory (1911)

  • Former "Joseph Konsum" department store, built in 1912 (2011)

  • House of Barmenia Insurance (1929/30), later Funkhaus Springerstraße

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Hansel, Emil Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1943
Place of death Leipzig