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Emil Otto panel, 1859
Emil Otto plaque, 1912
Grave site plaque in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart

Emil Otto Tafel (born May 29, 1838 in Öhringen ; † January 26, 1914 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect .

Life

Otto Tafel was born on May 29, 1838 in Öhringen as the son of the lawyer Christian Friedrich August Tafel (1798–1856) and his wife Marie (Luise) Tafel b. Duttenhofer (1807–1839) born. Marie Tafel was a daughter of the silhouette artist Luise Duttenhofer .

Otto Tafel studied at the Stuttgart Polytechnic from 1854 to 1859 , then worked for a few years on the expansion of the Austrian Southern State Railways or the Württemberg Southern Railway and later stayed in Paris and in Italy in 1867/1868. In Rome he built the Villa Spithöver in the Sallustic Gardens . Around 1865 he taught as a professor at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts and from 1869 as a professor at the Stuttgart Building Trade School.

His works in Germany include the Inselhotel in Konstanz , which he created from a former Dominican monastery that had previously been used as a factory building, the Oberamts Hospital in Tettnang , which is now used as a music and elementary school, and one of the most architecturally advanced hospital buildings of the 19th century. Century applies and was built in the 1880s, as well as numerous buildings in and around Stuttgart . His former employee Philipp Jakob Manz continued his design for the factory buildings of the Heinrich Otto Söhne textile company in Wendlingen .

In 1872/1873, Tafel designed the Villa Merkel in Esslingen am Neckar, the first concrete building in what is now Baden-Württemberg. For the structure of the villa - according to the time - historicizing forms, here the Italian Renaissance, are chosen. In a similarly tradition-conscious manner, he designed the Moorish hall of the Konstanz Hotel Ferdinand Halm in 1887 and the buildings on Seestrasse in Konstanz, built by Jakob Walther, around 1901. Tafel redesigned the Brunegg castles in Emmishofen and Castell castles in Tägerwilen .

Emil Otto Tafel died in Stuttgart on January 26, 1914. His grave is in the Prague cemetery in section 5.

  • Villa Merkel in Esslingen

  • Island hotel in Constance

  • Castell Castle above Tägerwilen

  • former regional hospital in Tettnang

literature

  • Blackboard, Emil Otto. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 514. ( digitized version )
  • Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , p. 540.

Web links

Commons : Emil Otto Tafel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1911 Otto Tafel bequeathed part of his collection of Duttenhofer silhouette to the German Literature Archive in Marbach . The rest of the collection was also given to the literature archive after the death of his widow in 1933.
  2. ↑ Quiet contemporary witnesses. (No longer available online.) In: stille-zeitzeugen.de. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014 ; Retrieved January 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stille-zeitzeugen.de
  3. ↑ Former Oberamtskrankenhaus In: tettnang.de
  4. ^ Kerstin Renz: Industrial architecture in the early 20th century. The office of Philipp Jakob Manz. DVA , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-03492-3 , p. 11 f. ( online as PDF document with 7.35 MB)
  5. ↑ Julius Fekete: The Villa Merkel in Esslingen. (= Esslinger Studies , Volume 21.) Esslingen 1982.
  6. ↑ Martin Schall: Maurischer Saal in the Hotel Halm in Konstanz on Lake Constance. In: you-are-here.com. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
  7. ^ Eva Moser: Bodensee. Three countries. Culture and landscape between Stein am Rhein, Constance and Bregenz. DuMont, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7701-3991-7 , p. 50. ( limited preview on Google Books )
  8. ^ Thurgau Thurgovie: Brunegg Castle - chateau Brunegg Kreuzlingen. In: swisscastles.ch. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Blackboard, Emil Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tafel, Otto (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1914
Place of death Stuttgart