Fritz Becker (architect)

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Fritz Becker , also Friedrich Becker , (born October 30, 1882 in Worms , † May 24, 1973 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Fritz Becker studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and with Friedrich von Thiersch and Carl Hocheder at the Technical University of Munich . Immediately after completing his studies, Becker worked for Karl Roth on the town hall building in Dresden in 1904/1905 . Subsequently he worked as a government building manager ( trainee lawyer in the public building administration) in the Hessian civil service until 1908, and between 1908 and 1912 he worked at the municipal building construction offices of the cities of Darmstadt and Dresden.

In 1912 Fritz Becker was appointed teacher or professor at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . When the Kunstgewerbeschule was closed in 1919, his professorship with the entire architecture department was transferred to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he taught until his retirement in 1947. From the 1930s to 1940s he had a studio in the Eiskellerberg . In addition, he worked as a freelance architect until 1945, between 1923 and 1929 in a joint venture or partnership with Erich Kutzner, who had a doctorate in civil engineering . Becker was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB) and the Association of German Architects (BDA).

plant

Buildings (incomplete)

  • 1922: Administration building of the Pieron machine factory (today the seat of the city archive) in Bocholt , Münsterstrasse 76 (together with Carl Staudt; under monument protection)
  • 1922–1925: Administration building of Mineralölwerke "Rhenania" AG (since 1925: Rhenania-Ossag Mineralölwerke AG ) in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Gartenstrasse 2 (not preserved)
  • 1924–1925: Housing development on Kaiserswerther Strasse / Golzheimer Platz in Düsseldorf-Golzheim (under monument protection)
  • 1925–1926: Apartment building Cecilienallee 37/38 / 38a in Düsseldorf-Golzheim (under monument protection)
  • 1925–1926: Buildings at the GeSoLei exhibition in Düsseldorf:
    • Model house "House of the intellectual worker"
    • House of the city of Düsseldorf
  • 1927–1929: Palace Hotel “Mannheimer Hof” in Mannheim, Augustaanlage 4
  • 1928: Apartment building, Schanzenstrasse 1a in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel (together with Erich Kutzner; under monument protection)
  • 1928: Two-family house, Arnulfstraße 15, in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel (together with Erich Kutzner)
  • 1928–1929: Marientorschleuse in Duisburg
  • 1930: Settegast house in Düsseldorf-Lohausen, Lantzallee 24
  • 1933–1934: Completion of the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Weiden (Upper Palatinate) (based on a design by Otho Orlando Kurz )
  • 1935–1937: Elementary school (later "Theodor-Heuss-Schule") in Düsseldorf-Wersten (under monument protection)
  • 1937: Buildings at the Reich Exhibition "Schaffendes Volk" in Düsseldorf:
    • Hall for flower and plant exhibitions ("Nordpark-Gartenhalle")
    • Café of the Düsseldorf Confectioners' Guild
  • 1938: Hardter Wald youth hostel in Mönchengladbach
  • 1941–1942: Bunker in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, Kaiserswerther Markt 40

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Becker, Friedrich (Fritz) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 148 .
  • Wilhelm Busch: Buildings from the 1920s on the Rhine and Ruhr. Architecture as a means of expression. JP Bachem, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7616-1089-0 , pp. 251f. (= Articles on the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 32.)
  • Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937. Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 . (Biographical information on Becker in the directory of architects, online ( memento from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on March 12, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Buildings by Fritz Becker  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Becker, Fritz, Prof., architect, Eiskellerstraße 1/3, in address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1940 , p. 31 uni-duesseldorf.de
  2. ↑ Erich Kutzner: A modern large building from the foundation to completion. Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1930. (= The Building Books , Volume 8.)
  3. ↑ Data record on the Marientorschleuse ( memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the architecture database at www.architektur-ruhr.de , last accessed on January 4, 2011
  4. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 135, object no. 195.
  5. ^ Parish history and church building ( Memento from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at www.herz-jesu-weiden.de , last accessed on January 4, 2011
  6. ↑ Jürgen Wiener (Ed.): The Gesolei and the Düsseldorf architecture of the 20s. JP Bachem, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1445-4 , p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1973
Place of death Dusseldorf