Friedrich Lehmann (architect, 1889)

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Fritz Lehmann, around 1931

Friedrich Lehmann , also Fritz Lehmann , (born July 18, 1889 in Schluckenau , Böhmen ; † October 26, 1957 in Vienna ) was a German-Bohemian architect , university teacher and architecture critic .

Life

Friedrich Lehmann attended high school in Tetschen and studied architecture at the German Technical University in Prague (DTH Prague) from 1910 to 1914 . During the First World War , Lehmann was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and deployed on the Eastern Front. After the war, he continued his studies at the Technical University of Vienna for two years and graduated with the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur . He then worked as an assistant to Franz Schwertner (1858–1922) and from 1922 as a supplement at the DTH Prague, where he received his doctorate in 1928 and later also qualified as a professor . In 1929 he became an assistant professor . He wrote as an architecture critic for the Prager Tagblatt .

Lehmann was a Freemason and was therefore observed by the Czechoslovak police, who also suspected him of espionage for the German Empire. In 1933 he became a member of the Chamber of Architects, in 1935 he received a professorship at the DTH Prague and between 1937 and 1942 he was a member of the examination committee for the second state examination in architecture. After the German occupation in 1939, Lehmann retained his professorship, although the National Socialists accused him of belonging to the Freemasons.

Lehmann's architectural style was influenced by Art Deco in the 1920s, and he then advocated functionalism . He was the architect of various insurance buildings and banks in Czechoslovakia, he designed the Prague Esplanade Hotel and also created tombs, primarily for graves in the Žižkov Jewish cemetery .

Lehmann was not immediately a victim of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945 , but went to Vienna in 1946 and was not able to return afterwards because of the communist takeover. In 1946 Lehmann became professor for building theory at the Technical University of Vienna . In 1946, he built a residential building in lightweight concrete in Vienna, which was destroyed in the war .

buildings

  • 1925–1928: Artificial silk factory in Lobositz
  • 1928–1929: Building for the Bohemian Discount Bank in Eger
  • 1928–1929: Administration building of the insurance company Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà (“Adria-Palast I”) with a café in Aussig , Velká Hradební 484/2
  • 1928–1930: Hotel Esplanade, New Town in Prague
  • 1930–1932: Administration building of the insurance company Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà ("Adria-Palast II") in Prague-Neustadt, Jungmannova 34
  • 1933–1934: Reconstruction of the garden house wing of the baroque Vernierovský Palace in Prague-New Town
  • 1934: Reconstruction of a residential building originally built by Josef Gočár in 1911 in Prague – Hradčany
  • 1934/35: Reconstruction of the former German House in Prague-New Town, Na příkopě 859/22, now Slovanský dům
  • 1936: Palace Nisa of Generali-Versicherung in Reichenberg
  • 1936: Conversion of his own house in Prague – Holešovice
  • 1936–1937: Administration building of the Victoria Insurance Company (“Victoria Palace”) in Prague Old Town , Revoluční 1006/5
  • 1936–1937: Apartment building in Prague-New Town
  • 1936–1938: Apartment block in Prague-New Town, Klimentská 2065/17
  • 1937: Villa Manzer in Prague – Libeň, Gabčíkova 1384/5
  • 1937–1938: Generali-Versicherung apartment buildings in Prague-New Town
  • 1937–1938: Renovation of the “U Zlatého okouna” of the Czech discount bank in Prague's old town
  • after 1946: Participation in the renovation of the Vienna State Opera
  • 1948–1949: Participation in the “Roter Berg Siedlung” in Vienna
  • 1951–1952: Coulombgasse elementary school in Vienna
  • Buildings by Fritz Lehmann

  • Bohemian discount bank in Eger

  • Hotel Esplanade in Prague

  • Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà in Aussig (Adria Palace I)

  • Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà in Prague (Adria Palace II)

  • Generali insurance in Reichenberg

  • Victoria Insurance in Prague

  • Villa Manzer in Prague

  • Tenement house in Prague

  • Tenement house in Prague

  • Ludvíka Laguse's grave, 1934, Žižkov Jewish cemetery

literature

  • Lehmann, Friedrich. In: Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries . Volume II, Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, p. 412.
  • Zdeněk Lukeš: Payment of the debt. German-speaking architects in Prague 1900–1938. (Splátka dluhu: Praha a její německy hovořící architekti 1900–1938). Fraktály Publishers, Prague 2002, ISBN 80-86627-04-7 , pp. 104-113.

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personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Czechoslovak architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Schluckenau
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1957
Place of death Vienna