Ernst Otto Oßwald

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Tagblatt tower in Stuttgart

Ernst Otto Oßwald (born February 27, 1880 in Stuttgart ; † May 1, 1960 there ; full name: Karl Ernst Otto Oßwald ) was a German architect , best known for the construction of the Stuttgarter Tagblatt Tower .

After dropping out of school, Oßwald completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and after wandering attended the state building school in his hometown. Before the First World War , he built several apartment buildings in Stuttgart in the form of British and Dutch reform architecture, which, insofar as they authentically survived the Second World War , are now considered cultural monuments.

With the Tagblatt Tower, inaugurated in 1928, he created his most famous building. With a height of 61 m and 15 full storeys or 18 storeys, it is considered to be one of the most important examples of New Building in Stuttgart, as well as being the first high-rise in the world to be built in exposed concrete.

He then built a few private houses and an industrial and administrative building for the Eisen Fuchs company in Stuttgart, and he also devoted himself to his hobby, painting.

Publications

  • Ernst Otto Oßwald: The Tagblatt Tower House . In: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt 1928. On the consecration of the Tagblatt tower house on November 5, 1928, [Stuttgart]: [Neues Tagblatt] [1928], pp. 19–36 [there p. 36 portrait photo of Osswald].

literature

  • Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. (= Publications of the Archives of the City of Stuttgart , Volume 84.) 2nd edition, Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , p. 532. (Short biography Otto Oßwald )
  • Willy P. Fuchs - Röll: To the buildings of the architect E. Otto Osswald. Reprint from: Neue Baukunst. Magazine. Berlin undated [around 1930]

Web links

Commons : Ernst Otto Oßwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elfriede Grunow - Osswald: From Art Nouveau Architects to Modernist Architects - E. Otto Osswald - 1880 - 1960. Typescript from 2009, p. 4. Stuttgart City Archives - inventory 2236 = Osswald estate, unit 1
  2. ↑ Osswald uses ß in his signature in German Kurrent script. His stamp on plans and letters shows the spelling "E. Otto Osswald" in sans serif font. It is also written "Osswald" in most of the publications that appeared between 1927 and 1930 about the Tagblattturm and him and which are set in sans serif.
  3. ↑ Fuchs - Röll: ... Osswald, around 1930, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Oßwald, Ernst Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oßwald, Karl Ernst Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1880 or February 27, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1960
Place of death Stuttgart