Franz Habich

Franz Habich (born November 25, 1852 in New York , † March 25, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

life and work

After visiting the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe as a student of Josef Durm , Habich stayed in Rome in 1877, where he recorded the ceiling decorations of the Villa di Papa Giulio . From 1882 to 1890 he worked in Mannheim and built numerous villas (including the Villa Glaser and a villa in Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden ), townhouses (such as a residential and commercial building in Zurich) and bank buildings. From 1891 he worked in Munich as an office manager in Friedrich von Thiersch's studio and from 1897 as chief architect of the Heilmann & Littmann construction company, where he was involved in the construction of the Royal Kurhaus in Reichenhall , the Münchner Kindlkeller, the Prinzregententheater and the Oberpollinger department store . In 1907 he was given the interior design of the Kaufhaus des Westens in Berlin.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

literature

Andre Lambert, Eduard Stahl: Modern Architecture. Executed urban residential buildings, commercial and single-family houses, villas with their ancillary buildings. Stuttgart 1890/1891 ( uni-stuttgart.de ).
Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art from all nations in the royal glass palace. 3rd edition, Munich, issued on July 24, 1891 (no images: drawings and photos daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Habich, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 401 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

^ Max Creutz : The department store of the west. In: Berliner Architekturwelt . 10th year 1907/1908, No. 3 (from June 1907), pp. 81–84 (text), pp. 85–106 (illustrations).

personal data
SURNAME	Habich, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1937
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Max Creutz : The department store of the west. In: Berliner Architekturwelt . 10th year 1907/1908, No. 3 (from June 1907), pp. 81–84 (text), pp. 85–106 (illustrations).