Fritz Bühlmann (architect)

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Fritz Bühlmann (born July 19, 1874 in Lucerne , † February 6, 1956 in Munich ) was a German architect and draftsman.

family

The eldest son of the architect Joseph Bühlmann from his first marriage to the Swiss Emma, ​​b. Stocker grew up in Munich after his father became an assistant in 1875 and finally a full professor of architecture at the Technical University in Munich in 1878. The family, including their brother Otto (1875–1951), who was also born in Lucerne, settled in Munich and received Bavarian and later German citizenship. Sister Sophie (1876–1933) was born in Munich. After the mother's death in 1882, the father remarried in 1883. The half-siblings Manfred Bühlmann (1885-1955), later an architect and building historian, and Karl Bühlmann (* 1886) came from the marriage with Maria Lang (1860–1929) from Munich . A daughter Hortense died in the year of her birth, 1888.

Life

After attending elementary school, Fritz Bühlmann entered the 1st class of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1884 and successfully passed the Abitur examination here in 1894. The later painters Julius Seyler , Hermann Kauffmann the Younger and from 1889 Siegmund von Suchodolski were at times his classmates here. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . Excursions to Oppenheim, Darmstadt, Ludwigsburg and Nuremberg, in which the future interior architect and designer Siegmund von Suchodolski also took part, are evidenced by joint sketches. After graduating as a graduate engineer, he completed the mandatory state building internship and was appointed royal building authority assessor, government builder in Munich and finally government building officer. In 1907 Fritz Bühlmann married Josefa (Josefine) Bayer from Eichstätt. Presumably in 1939 he was given permanent retirement. Fritz Bühlmann died at the age of 81 and was buried in Munich's north cemetery.

Artistic activity

During his training and parallel to his professional activity, but also after his retirement, Fritz Bühlmann created an abundance of pencil and pen drawings as well as watercolors. Extensive sketchbooks, which were occasionally kept for several years, have also been preserved. Since most of the works are provided with location information and references to the time of their creation, they also document Fritz Bühlmann's residence, whereabouts and phases of life: The first pencil drawings were made in 1887 and 1888 while he was still at school, drawings of excursions during his studies at the technical university as well as from Munich and its suburbs and u. a. from Austria, from 1895, views from Eichstätt, the wife's place of residence, from Lower Bavaria and the Bavarian Alpine foothills, from 1907, and views from Freising and the surrounding area, from 1925 - probably also a reference to Bühlmann's professional activity there until his retirement in 1939 Important documents of the city's history are undoubtedly detailed views from Schwabing-West and documentation of the war destruction in Munich after 1945. One of the last, dated sketchbooks is inscribed:> Fritz Bühlmann Ob. Rggs. Retired building officer in Munich 1952 <.

literature

  • Ralf Benkert, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat (ed.): Werdenfelser Künstlerlexikon. Artist lexicon of the Werdenfelser Land . Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2003, p. #.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ * April 10, 1853; Marriage in 1873; † June 3, 1882.
  2. ↑ Chemist and entomologist in Munich.
  3. ↑ m. Buchner; Drawing teacher in Munich.
  4. ^ The architect Emil Bühlmann (* 1888) named in Munich address books could have been another brother of Fritz Bühlmann (and then a twin brother of Hortense).
  5. ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive: matriculation and annual reports 1884/85 to 1893/94.
  6. ↑ * July 10, 1876 in Zeilitzheim near Schweinfurt; Daughter of Christoph Friedrich Bayer and Maria, geb. Schwaiger; see. Registration documents (PMB): Munich City Archives.
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 33, February 8, 1956, p. 14: obituary; in the name of Josefine Bühlmann with daughter Josefine; No. 34, February 9, 1956: Burials .
  8. ↑ The examples cited here are taken from the antiquarian catalogs Peter Bierl, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, Eurasburg and the Internet.
personal data
SURNAME Bühlmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1956
Place of death Munich