Franz Seeck

Franz Seeck (born February 11, 1874 in Berlin ; † November 15, 1944 there ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Seeck studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . There he passed his first main examination as government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) in 1896 and his second main examination as government building master ( assessor ) in 1900 . From 1906 on, Seeck worked as a teacher and later as a professor at the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts .

In 1911 he took part in the competition for the extension of the zoo and the design of the exhibition grounds in Wroclaw , which they called the Centennial Hall learned his character. Together with the architect Alfred Gellhorn and the garden architect Paul Freye , he won 3rd prize with the design “United and yet separated”. With Freye, he had already won 2nd prize in the competition and the construction contract for the Osterholz cemetery in Bremen.

In 1920 he was appointed a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In 1928 he was one of the founding members of the conservative architectural group Der Block . On December 9, 1933, his membership in the Academy of Arts was revoked for political and racist reasons on the basis of the law for the restoration of the civil service .

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Tomb for Walter Leistikow in Berlin (1909)

1907–1908: Group of apartment buildings for the doctor Carl Günther in Berlin-Friedenau , Kaiserallee (today Bundesallee) 67 / Mainauer Straße 1 (under monument protection)
1908: Tomb for Friedrich Althoff in the Berlin Botanical Garden
1909: Tomb for Walter Leistikow in the Steglitz cemetery in Berlin
1909–1915: Osterholzer Friedhof in Bremen-Osterholz (buildings by Seeck, green planning by Paul Freye; under monument protection)
1912: Country house for the manufacturer Robert Hauptner in Berlin-Zehlendorf , Argentinische Allee 24/26 (significantly changed)
1914: Mausoleum of the von Wedekind family on the manor Friedrichswalde (Mecklenburg), on Groß Labenzer See (with a deer sculpture on the forecourt by Louis Tuaillon ; under monument protection)
1916: Tomb of the Gutmann family on the urn cemetery on Richtstrasse in Berlin-Wedding (under monument protection)

before 1917: country house for the entrepreneur Conrad Credé jun. in Niederzwehren near Kassel

before 1919: Home of the sculptor Hermann Hosaeus in Berlin-Grunewald, Parkstrasse 84/86

1922: Tomb of the family crypt Werner von Siemens in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin

1924: Group of residential buildings on Teltower Strasse in Berlin-Zehlendorf-Mitte

before 1928: cemetery chapel in Neuhardenberg

1928: Tomb of the Michalowsky family in Neu-Temmen (with a sculpture of a "mourning woman" by the sculptor Wilhelm Gerstel )

1929–1930: House for Reinhold Melchior in Berlin-Grunewald, Brahmsstrasse 16/18 (later changed, under monument protection)

Osterholz cemetery in Bremen (1909–1915)
Mausoleum of the von Wedekind family in Friedrichswalde (1914)
Tomb of the Gutmann family in Berlin (1916)
Tomb of the Werner von Siemens family, Stahnsdorf south-west cemetery (1922)
Friedrich Althoff's tomb in the Berlin Botanical Garden

Fonts

The arts and crafts. In: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editors) / Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell and others (eds.): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. 3rd volume, 11th book: Fine literature and arts. Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1914, pp. 64–76 [1596–1608] ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

literature

Seeck, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 425 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Seeck - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Silesia. 4th year 1910/1911, p. 445.
Jerzy Ilkosz, Beate Störtkuhl: The Centennial Hall and the Exhibition Grounds in Breslau. The work of Max Berg. Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57986-4 , p. 305.

↑ The block. In: arch INFORM .

↑ Entry for the building Bundesallee 67 / Mainauer Straße 1 in the Berlin State Monument List

^ Seeck, Professor Franz, Architect - Berlin. In: German art and decoration. Issue 41/1917, pp. 70–88, here p. 88 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

^ Seeck, Professor Franz, Architect - Berlin. In: German art and decoration. Issue 41/1917, pp. 70–88, here p. 70 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

↑ Entry on the Wedding Urn Cemetery in the Berlin State Monument List (with mention of the tomb)

^ Hermann Warlich: The house C. Credé in Niederzwehren near Cassel. In: interior decoration. 27th year 1916, issue 12 (from December 1916), pp. 405–411.

↑ ^a ^b Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture. Issue 6/1927, ( digital.zlb.de )

↑ Entry for the residential building at Brahmsstrasse 16/18 in the Berlin State Monument List

personal data
SURNAME	Seeck, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 1944
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Silesia. 4th year 1910/1911, p. 445.
Jerzy Ilkosz, Beate Störtkuhl: The Centennial Hall and the Exhibition Grounds in Breslau. The work of Max Berg. Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57986-4 , p. 305.

[2] The block. In: arch INFORM .

[3] Entry for the building Bundesallee 67 / Mainauer Straße 1 in the Berlin State Monument List

[4] Seeck, Professor Franz, Architect - Berlin. In: German art and decoration. Issue 41/1917, pp. 70–88, here p. 88 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

[5] Seeck, Professor Franz, Architect - Berlin. In: German art and decoration. Issue 41/1917, pp. 70–88, here p. 70 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

[6] Entry on the Wedding Urn Cemetery in the Berlin State Monument List (with mention of the tomb)

[7] Hermann Warlich: The house C. Credé in Niederzwehren near Cassel. In: interior decoration. 27th year 1916, issue 12 (from December 1916), pp. 405–411.

[WMB1927-8] Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture. Issue 6/1927, ( digital.zlb.de )

[9] Entry for the residential building at Brahmsstrasse 16/18 in the Berlin State Monument List