Georg de Lalande

Georg de Lalande ( Japanese ゲ オ ル グ ・ デ ・ ラ ラ ン デ ; * September 6, 1872 in Hirschberg (Riesengebirge) ; † August 5, 1914 in Tokyo ; full name: Georg Karl Adolph Guido de Lalande ) was a German architect who lived in Japan and worked. His buildings are assigned to the Japanese Art Nouveau .

Life

Georg de Lalande was born in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains as the eldest son of the building contractor Eugen de Lalande and his wife Ottilie de Lalande, née Thieme. He studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and after completing his studies worked in Breslau , Glogau , Vienna , Berlin , Shanghai and Tianjin . At the invitation of the German architect Ludwig Richard Seel , de Lalande traveled to Yokohama in 1903 and took over the firm's architecture office, as Seel returned to Germany that same year. De Lalandes buildings were not only found in Yokohama, but also in Tokyo , Osaka , Kobe and Korea.

Shortly before his death in 1913, the Kingdom of Prussia awarded him the honorary title of building officer . During a trip to the Japanese Protectorate of Korea the following year, de Lalande fell ill with pneumonia, as a result of which he died after his return to Tokyo. His wife Edith de Lalande (nee Pitschke), with whom he had five children, returned to Germany after his death and later married the Japanese diplomat Tōgō Shigenori .

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The only Lalandes building still preserved in Japan today, the "Weathercock House"

The third version of the Oriental Hotel by Lalande

While 40 of his buildings are still preserved in Lalande's homeland, in Japan there is only the "weathercock house" ( 風 見 鶏 の 館 , kazamidori no yakata ) in Kobe.

• 1900: House for the Schramm family in Yokohama (demolished after World War II)
• 1904: House for Gottfried Thomas in Kobe (so-called weathercock house , declared as an important cultural asset of Japan )
• 1905: Own home in Negishi, Yokohama
• 1907: The Oriental Hotel in Kobe
• 1907: House for Viktor Hermann in Kobe (damaged in the war and demolished in 1969)
• 1907: Administration building of the German import and export company C. Illies & Co. in Yokohama ( damaged in 1923 by the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 )
• 1913: Hirota Ritarō's house in Tokyo
• 1914: Bank building for the Mitsui Bank branch in Osaka (demolished in 1935)
• 1914: Administration building of the Takada trading company in Tokyo (destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923)
• 1915: Kawasaki Hajime's house in Tokyo
• 1916: Chōsen Hotel in Keijō (today: Seoul )
• 1917: Hasegawa Tetsuji's house in Tokyo

• Yep Government Palace in Seoul; from 1986 National Museum (demolished)

literature

• Takehiko Hirose: Royal Prussian building officer Georg de Lalande. winterwork, Borsdorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-86468-237-7 .

Web links

• Lalande, de Georg Karl Adolph Guido ラ ラ ン ド ・ ゲ オ ル グ ・ ド (1872–1914). Japanese Memory -日本 の 想 い 、 ド イ ツ の 想 い , 2013, accessed October 11, 2013 .