Georg Hellat

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Corporation house of the Student Estonian Association ( Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts ) in Tartu, South Estonia (photo from 2008)

Georg Hellat (* February 19 . Jul / 3. March  1870 greg. In Puka , Livonia ; † 28. August 1943 in Tallinn , Estonian SSR ) was an Estonian architect .

Life and architecture

Georg Hellat was born in Puka (German Bockenhof ). In 1900 he graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineering in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg . He then worked as one of the first professional Estonian architects.

From 1912 to 1915 Hellat was the city architect of the Estonian capital Tallinn ( Reval ). From 1919 to 1923 he worked as the head of the construction department of the Tallinn City Council.

Architectural work

Hellat's main work is the corporation house of the Student Estonian Association ( Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts ) in Tartu ( Dorpat ). It was completed in 1902. The building is one of the first and most characteristic structures of national romanticism in Estonia . The peace treaty between Finland and Soviet Russia was signed in the house on October 14, 1920 .

Together with the architects Viktor Schröter , Hellat built the Petruskirche in Tartu, the second tallest sacred building in southern Estonia.

Between 1911 and 1913, according to his plans, the Säde cultural and club house in Valga ( Walk ) was built in the late Art Nouveau style , which also included a theater and a hotel. The building burned down several times.

Hellat also drew the original plans of the Art Nouveau -Theaters Endla in West Estonian Parnu ( Pärnu ) responsible, which opened the 1911th On February 23, 1918, Estonian independence was proclaimed from the balcony of the theater. The theater building was destroyed in 1944.

In 1914 Hellat built the neo-classicist girls' high school in Tartu.

Private life

From 1907 to 1925 Hellat was married to Ludmilla Hellat-Lemba (1879–1945). The couple had a daughter and a son. In 1935 Georg Hellat established his first name in Jüri.

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 85

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://www.valgark.ee/isik/index.php?id=102
  2. ↑ http://www.visitestonia.com/de/die-eelk-petruskirche-in-tartu
  3. ↑ http://www.tmm.ee/?s=70135
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.endla.ee
personal data
SURNAME Hellat, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellat, Jüri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Puka , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1943
Place of death Tallinn , Estonian SSR