Franz Zell

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Franz Anton Zell (born February 28, 1866 in Munich ; † August 10, 1961 there ) was a German architect and folklorist .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Zell began studying architecture at the Technical University of Munich . From 1894 to 1898 he was editor of the German joiner's calendar and from 1901 to 1912 editor of the Süddeutsche Bauzeitung . In 1902 he was involved in founding the Association for Folk Art and Folklore in Munich. He also collected folk furniture for the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . In 1912 Zell became a teacher (with the title of professor ) at the Munich building trade school . He was a member of the Association of German Architects .

As an architect, Franz Zell is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Heimat style in architecture in his endeavors to design representative country houses from down-to-earth forms made from traditional materials . Zell is the holder of the Golden Ring of Honor of the Deutsches Museum , for which he a. a. designed the staging and furniture of the pharmacy exhibited there. In 1952 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

He was married to Paula Zell since 1908 .

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Buildings and designs

Fonts

  • Farmhouse furniture from the Bavarian highlands. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1899.
  • Farm houses and folk house painting in the Bavarian highlands. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1900.
  • Folk art in the Allgäu. Kaufbeuren 1902.
  • Peasant costumes from the Bavarian highlands. Munich 1903.
  • Native construction in Upper Bavaria. Examples of simple residential buildings for the small town and the country. Süddeutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 1906.

literature

  • Bärbel Kleindorfer-Marx: Folk art as a style. Designs by Franz Zell for the Schoyerer furniture factory in Cham. S. Roderer, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-89073-909-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Willy Oskar Dressler (Ed.): Dressler's Art Yearbook , 7th year 1913, p. 949.