Fritz Wolff (architect)

Fritz Wolff, 1907, photo by Rudolf Dührkoop

Fritz Wolff (born March 15, 1847 in Berlin , † July 16, 1921 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and university professor .

Life

Fritz Wolff was a son of the Berlin sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff, known as "Tier-Wolff" . After graduating from high school at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin , he gained his first practical experience in the construction industry as a Baueleve with Friedrich Adler . After studying for six semesters at the Berlin Bauakademie , he passed the site manager's exam and then worked again for Friedrich Adler and Richard Lucae . In 1873 he won the Schinkel Medal in the Schinkel competition for his design for a new building for the industrial museum . In 1874 he passed the master builder examination (corresponding to the later 2nd state examination ).

Wolff worked for several years at the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin until he was transferred to the Ministerial Building Commission in 1881.

Wolff also began teaching at the trade museum and the building academy from 1876 onwards . In 1886 he left the state building administration and succeeded Hermann Ende as professor at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1900 he was elected rector of the university. Only with the legal introduction of the age limit for civil servants university teachers to April 1, 1921 Wolff was given emeritus status .

Honors

In 1918 the Technical University of Hanover awarded Wolff an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. h.). He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and held the title of Privy Building Councilor .

Buildings and designs

Interim construction of the Pergamon Museum (1897–1899)

In 1873 Wolff and the architect Carl Body participated in the architectural competition for the new building of the Silesian Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw , their design received a (originally not planned) 4th prize of 300 thalers at the suggestion of the jury.

In 1874, after passing his master builder examination, Wolff initially took over the construction management of the Palais Borsig designed by Richard Lucae , where he was responsible for working out the architectural details.

As an employee of the ministerial building commission, Wolff designed the building for the new buildings of the provincial tax office and the Packhof in Berlin in 1882, during which construction (1883–1886) he was responsible. 1884 his competition design was for construction of Berlin's Museum Island with a 2nd prize, as an indirect consequence, he designed the 1897 to 1899 Interimsbau executed for the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island, which by today's building, designed by nine years Alfred Messel was replaced .

In 1885–1886 the exhibition palace in the former Universum Landes exhibition park at Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin-Moabit was converted and expanded according to Wolff's plans . In 1888 he took part in the competition for the entrance building of the new Cologne main station without success .

literature

"R.": Secret building officer Professor Dr.-Ing. eh Fritz Wolff †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 41st year 1921, No. 63 (from August 6, 1921), p. 396.
Wolff, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 197 .

Individual evidence

↑ German construction newspaper . 7th year 1873, No. 20 (from March 8, 1873), p. 78.
↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 7, 1873, No. 78 (from September 27, 1873), p. 305, and No. 84 (from October 18, 1873), p. 330. (The museum building was revised in 1875–1879 in the revision of the executed with the 1st prize winning design by the architect Otto Rathey .)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d compare holdings on Fritz Wolff at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin
^ Second prize for the Museum Island design , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 15, April 12, 1884, p. 143., accessed on December 27, 2012.
^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 6th year 1886, No. 19 (from May 8, 1886), pp. 177–179.
^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 8th year 1888, No. 26 (from June 30, 1888), p. 283.

personal data
SURNAME	Wolff, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, Prussian building officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	July 16, 1921
Place of death	Bad Harzburg

[1] German construction newspaper . 7th year 1873, No. 20 (from March 8, 1873), p. 78.

[2] Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 7, 1873, No. 78 (from September 27, 1873), p. 305, and No. 84 (from October 18, 1873), p. 330. (The museum building was revised in 1875–1879 in the revision of the executed with the 1st prize winning design by the architect Otto Rathey .)

[AMTUB-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d compare holdings on Fritz Wolff at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin

[4] Second prize for the Museum Island design , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 15, April 12, 1884, p. 143., accessed on December 27, 2012.

[5] Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 6th year 1886, No. 19 (from May 8, 1886), pp. 177–179.

[6] Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 8th year 1888, No. 26 (from June 30, 1888), p. 283.