Julius Graebner

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The Christ Church in Dresden , one of the most important works by Schilling & Graebner

Julius Wilhelm Graebner (born January 11, 1858 in Durlach ; † July 25, 1917 in Istanbul ; also Julius Gräbner ) was a German architect . He had his main creative phase in the Dresden architecture office Schilling & Graebner in the three decades from 1889 until his death.

Life

Grave of the Graebner family in the Melaten cemetery

Graebner, who was born in Baden, was the son of a hosiery knitter and first attended high school in Karlsruhe . Between 1876 and 1879 he began to study architecture at the technical university there , which he had to interrupt because of military service and continued at the Dresden Polytechnic in 1880 . There he met Rudolf Schilling , who would later become his partner in a joint architecture office. After completing his training, during which he was particularly influenced by his professors Josef Durm , Karl Weißbach and Ernst Giese , he went to Berlin in 1883 . There he was employed in the offices of Kayser and von Großheim and Hans Grisebach and worked on various smaller projects. Back in Dresden , he and his former fellow student Schilling founded the Schilling & Graebner office in 1889. Together, mainly in Saxony , they created a large number of churches, villas , town halls and other buildings that were initially historicizing and then oriented towards Art Nouveau and the reform architecture of early modernism . Graebner, who was raised to the rank of Royal Building Councilor in 1909, was closely connected with the City Planning Councilor Hans Erlwein and with Ferdinand Avenarius , for whom he also designed a villa in Blasewitz .

Julius Wilhelm Graebner died in 1917 during a business trip in what is now Istanbul to typhoid . His son Erwin Graebner (born February 9, 1895 in Dresden; † April 30, 1945, killed at the Futapass in Italy) continued to run the Schilling & Graebner architecture office together with Schilling after returning from the front in the First World War in October 1918.

Julius Graebner was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. H, between lit. A + B).

Memberships

Works

literature

  • Rudolf Schilling, Julius Graebner: Schilling and Graebner, Architects BDA, Dresden. A selection. Buildings from 1918–1928. Berlin, Maul, 1928.
  • Ricarda Kube: Schilling and Graebner (1889–1917) - the work of a Dresden architectural firm. Dissertation at the Technical University of Dresden, 2 volumes, 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, No. 62 of August 4, 1917, p. 316.
  2. ^ Julius Graebner: Projects (in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum). Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin , accessed on February 8, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Hans-Holger Malcomeß : The development of the Protestant church building of the Dresden architecture firm Schilling and Graebner between 1889 and 1917. (PDF; 947 kB) (No longer available online.) September 30, 2001, archived from the original on February 22, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2015 (student term paper in the 2001 summer semester in the art history advanced seminar: “German Church Construction in the 20th Century”). 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.malcomess.com
  4. ^ Historical register of architects: Graaf - Grazianski
personal data
SURNAME Graebner, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graebner, Julius Wilhelm (full name); Graebner, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1917
Place of death Istanbul