Fritz Laske

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Fritz Laske (portrait photo by Rudolf Dührkoop , 1907)

Fritz Laske (born March 25, 1854 in Königsberg , East Prussia, † February 19, 1918 in Berlin ; full name: Johann August Friedrich Laske ) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and university professor in Berlin.

Life

Laske was the son of a Königsberg car manufacturer. From 1875 he studied at the Berlin Building Academy , among others with Eduard Jacobsthal . In 1876/1877 he was able to take up Schloss Wilhelmsburg in Schmalkalden as part of the Friedrich Eggers scholarship . In 1879 he passed the "construction manager examination" (1st state examination ) and, after the subsequent legal clerkship, in 1885 the "builder examination" (2nd state examination). While still a student, he was involved in the planning of the Strasbourg main train station as an employee of Jacobsthal . Study trips took him to Italy, France, Great Britain and Belgium.

Laske then worked as an assistant teacher at the Royal Art School in Berlin and at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , he was also involved in the planning of various Berlin city train stations and for the extension of the Bergakademie Berlin . From 1893 to 1897, Laske worked as an " unskilled worker" in the technical office of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin before he took up the local construction officer in Potsdam , where he rebuilt the garrison church . Laske succeeded his teacher Eduard Jacobsthal as a professor at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , from whom he took over the teaching of ornamentation . He was awarded the honorary title of Secret Building Councilor .

During his lifetime, Laske set up the Fritz Laske Foundation to promote high architecture in 1916 and provided it with 30,000 marks .

The Association for Henneberg History and Regional Studies set up a "Fritz-Laske Room" in Wilhelmsburg Castle in Schmalkalden, in which parts of his home furnishings and his architectural and literary estate were kept.

buildings

  • 1890–1892: Extension of the Bergakademie Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 42–44
  • 1896–1899: Large refractor for the astrophysical observatory on Telegraphenberg in Potsdam
  • 1905: Earthquake observation center of the Geodetic Institute on Telegraphenberg in Potsdam
  • 1905: Chapel in Philippsthal
  • 1899: Festive decorations on the building of the Technical University at the celebration of its 100th anniversary
  • 1906: Installation of a heating system in the St. Nikolai Church in Potsdam

Fonts

  • Wilhelmsburg Castle near Schmalkalden, recorded, depicted and described in terms of art history. Schuster & Bufleb, Berlin 1895.
  • Report on the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, following the decree of the Minister of the Spiritual pp. Affairs of July 30, 1900; UI, No. 22445 1 v. 2. Potsdam 1900.
  • The four round churches on Bornholm . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 51, 1901, Sp. 481–526. ( Digitized version )
  • The festive decorations of the Royal Technical University in Berlin at the celebration of its centenary on October 18-21, 1899. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 52nd year 1902, Sp. 209–222. ( Digitized version )
  • The earthquake observation point of the Geodetic Institute on the Telegraphenberge near Potsdam. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 55th year 1905, Sp. 87–90. ( Digitized version )
  • The new heating system in the St. Nikolaikirche in Potsdam . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 56th year 1906, Sp. 87–96. ( Digitized version )
  • The architecture of the cult buildings of Japan. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 24 (from March 25, 1908), pp. 173–176. ( Digitized version )
  • The East Asian influence on the architecture of the West, especially Germany in the 18th century. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 58, 1908, Sp. 603–638. ( Digitized version )
  • The funeral ceremonies for Frederick the Great, with reconstructions of the Castrum doloris in the city palace and the decoration of the court and garrison church in Potsdam on 9 September 1786. Bard, Berlin 1912.
  • Wilhelmsburg Castle near Schmalkalden endangered! In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 49th year 1915, no. 68, p. 392 / no. 69, p. 394–396 / no. 70, p. 397–400 (in three episodes).

literature

  • Felix Genzmer : Fritz Laske † . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 38, 1918, No. 46 (from June 5, 1918), pp. 225–226. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Technical University of Berlin 1799–1924. Festschrift. Stilke, Berlin 1925, p. 95.
  2. ^ Architects' Association in Berlin and Association of Berlin Architects (ed.): Berlin and its buildings . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1896, pp. 282–284. ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ The chapel in Philippsthal . In: Andreas Kitschke: The churches of the Potsdam cultural landscape. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-248-5 , p. 253 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Laske, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laske, Johann August Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, Prussian building officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1918
Place of death Berlin