Fritz Gottlob

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Fritz Emil Egbert Gottlob (born June 20, 1859 in Küstrin , † April 14, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

After leaving school, he studied architecture at the Berlin Building Academy , where Friedrich Adler and Johannes Otzen taught, who had a strong influence on him. After completing his studies, he initially worked in Küstrin. There, the Berlin urban planning inspector August Lindemann received the order from the Evangelical Peace Church Community to build a new church in Küstriner Neustadt . Thank God he was assigned as a construction manager.

Luther Church Swinoujscie, designed by Fritz Gottlob

Since 1892, Gottlob was involved in the Apostle Paul Church and the St. Simeon Church as an employee of Franz Schwechten . At the end of the 1890s he established himself as an independent architect. At that time, the Gothic Revival was still in its prime. In 1896 Gottlob won the architectural competition for the Pauluskirche , in whose design he was able to realize his conception of the brick Gothic. Gottlob achieved great fame in 1900 through his book "Theory of Forms of North German Brick Gothic", which became a pattern and template book for church architects. The second edition appeared as early as 1907. Although Gottlob built numerous churches in brick Gothic, a few years later he was confronted with their limited possibilities. While the churches built in a rural context, such as the Pauluskirche and the Lutherkirche , could be reconciled with the tradition of medieval church building, this was difficult to do with street churches in a dense urban environment. Here the churches had to be placed in the building line under the conditions of urban development . This also led to a stylistic change in Gottlob's oeuvre . He has now implemented three plastered buildings in the geometric Art Nouveau style , the Nicodemus Church , the Philipp Melanchthon Church and the Nordend parish hall . Gottlob's church architecture changed from historicism to reform style . As a builder and architect, he had the tenement house Thomasiusstrasse 4 built in Berlin-Moabit in 1902–03 , which combined the world of forms of North German brick Gothic with contemporary stylistic elements.

literature

  • Markus Jager: The architect Fritz Gottlob (1859-1920) on the builder of the Martin Luther Church. Berlin 2009.
  • Markus Jager: Epilogue to Fritz Gottlob: Form theory of the North German brick Gothic (1907). Kiel 1999.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Gottlob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Berlin XII a, No. 924/1920
  2. ^ Historical calendar on Küstrin
  3. ↑ Monument database in tenement Thomasiusstrasse 4
personal data
SURNAME Thank God, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thank God, Fritz Emil Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1920
Place of death Berlin