Gottfried Wehling

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Felix Gottfried Wehling (born May 4, 1862 in Barby ; † January 19, 1913 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect .

Life

Tomb of the Haniel family , Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf

Gottfried Wehling - moved from Cologne - was registered at Bismarckstrasse 38 from August 7, 1886, and at  9 Blumenstrasse in Düsseldorf from December 21, 1907 until his death . He was married to Guiseppine Borghetti (1857–1929) from Locarno and had six children with his wife. His daughter Angelika Elisabeth (1893–1945) married the Eau-de-Cologne manufacturer Johann Maria Carl Farina in 1921 .

In Düsseldorf he was involved in the “actual boom in the city between 1900 and 1914” and worked at times in various working groups and law firms , such as “Jacobs and Wehling” (with Hubert Jacobs) and “Wehling and Ludwig” (with Alois Ludwig ).

Buildings and designs

1886–1896 (in the Jacobs & Wehling office)

Building of the state insurance company, view
Building of the state insurance company, floor plan

In the years 1886/1887 Gottfried Wehling built various houses in Cologne together with Hubert Jacobs. From 1888 the work of Wehling and Jacobs is documented in Düsseldorf, where they worked together until 1896. The Jacobs and Wehling office is documented in the 1890, 1891 and 1892 editions of the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf .

  • 1886/1887: House at Luxemburger Strasse 34 in Cologne (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1886/1887: House Von-Werth-Strasse 59 / Hansaring 20 in Cologne (Jacobs & Wehling) (demolished in 1972)
  • 1888: House at Grabenstrasse 4 for the Mangold company in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1889: Competition design for a Kaiser Wilhelm monument on the Drachenfels (Jacobs & Wehling) (1st prize, not executed)
  • 1890: House at Breite Straße 8 for the Düsseldorfer Allgemeine Versicherungsgesellschaft for sea, river and land transport in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1891: House Bismarckstrasse 106 in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1892: House Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 1, corner of Oststrasse in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1892: House at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 55 in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1894: Reconstruction of Professor Oeder's house on Jacobistraße in Düsseldorf in the historicist style of the Italian Renaissance (Jacobs & Wehling) The designs were by “Gottfr. Wehling in close contact with the client ”.
  • 1895: House at Elisabethstrasse 11 in Düsseldorf
  • 1895–1896: Building of the State Insurance Company of the Rhine Province , Friedrichstrasse / Adersstrasse, 1,860 m² built area, in the style of "modernized [r] Renaissance forms" (Jacobs & Wehling)
  • 1896: Department store of the Hartoch brothers , Bolkerstraße 19–21 in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling)

Other works were the creation of remarkable interiors in Düsseldorf:

1897/1898 (Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf)

From 1897 to 1898 the “architect Gottfried Wehling” built Gürtler's commercial building at Alleestraße 30 in Düsseldorf with “modernizing Renaissance forms [and] remarkable naturalistic ornament”. In 1898 the “architect Gottfried Wehling” rebuilt the facade of the C. Fausel office building, Schadowstrasse 34 in Düsseldorf.

1900–1903 (Wehling & Ludwig)

From 1900 the collaboration between Gottfried Wehling and Alois Ludwig in Düsseldorf is documented, where they worked together until 1903. But works by the architects were also created in Cologne, the best known being the Villa Bestgen .

  • 1900: Reconstruction and extension of the office building at Schadowstrasse 23 of the Mangold brothers in Düsseldorf, "a splendid example of a modern poster house " (Wehling & Ludwig)
  • 1900: Commercial building at Schadowstrasse 52 for the photographer Thomas Lantin (Wehling & Ludwig)
  • 1901/1902: Construction of the " Wehling'schen business groups ", Königsallee 9/11
  • 1901/1902: Blumenstrasse 7/9 in Düsseldorf (Wehling & Ludwig)
  • 1903: Construction of a number of small single-family houses on Parkstrasse in Düsseldorf, which should have as many healthy rooms as possible with low construction costs (Wehling & Ludwig)
  • 1903/1904: Villa Bestgen, Theodor-Heuss-Ring 9 in Cologne (Wehling & Ludwig)

1904–1912 (Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf)

From 1904 to 1912, Wehling's work as an independent architect and urban planner is documented.

Illustrations

  • House at Luxemburger Strasse 34 in Cologne

  • House Breite Strasse 8 in Düsseldorf

  • House at Schadowstrasse 34 in Düsseldorf

  • House at Schadowstrasse 23 in Düsseldorf

  • Villa Bestgen in Cologne

  • Houses at Prinz-Georg-Strasse 37, 39, 41 in Düsseldorf

  • Schadowstrasse 52

  • Semi-detached house Blumenstrasse 7 and 9

  • Tomb for the Haniel family

  • Draft for the development of the Frankfurter Miesen in Leipzig in 1912

literature

  • Brief biographies of the architects and builders . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 536 ( Jacobs & Wehling  ...).
  • Hiltrud Kier : The Cologne Neustadt . Düsseldorf 1978, p. 194 ( Jacobs & Wehling  ...).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, micro-filmed residents' registration card: Film No. 7-4-0-80.0000
  2. ^ Jürgen Wiener: Introduction to the architectural history of Düsseldorf. In: Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (eds.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, pp. XI – XXII, on this p. XVI.
  3. ^ Hiltrud Kier: The Cologne Neustadt . Düsseldorf 1978, p. 194 ( Jacobs & Wehling… Architects… 1886/87 Luxemburger Str. 34 (Fig. 354… 1886/87 Hansaring 20 / Von-Werth-Str. 59, Fig. 515)).
  4. ^ Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf for the years 1890, 1891 and 1892
  5. ↑ Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 447 .
  6. ^ Hiltrud Kier: The Cologne Neustadt . Düsseldorf 1978, p. 194 , image no. 354 .
  7. ↑ Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 447,536 .
  8. ^ Hiltrud Kier: The Cologne Neustadt . Düsseldorf 1978, p. 194 , image no. 515 .
  9. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 331.
  10. ^ Camilla G. Kaul: Friedrich Barbarossa in Kyffhäuser. Pictures of a national myth in the 19th century (=  Atlas, Bonn Contributions to Art History , 4/1). Böhlau, Cologne and Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-16906-0 , p. 634 ( google books ).
  11. ^ Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Modern new buildings , 2nd year, Stuttgart architecture publishing house Kick, Stuttgart 1898, plate 97.
  12. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 354.
  13. ^ A b Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 339.
  14. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 338-339.
  15. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 414.
  16. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 416.
  17. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 182.
  18. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 184f.
  19. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 350f.
    It was the "earliest example [...] in the old town".
  20. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 389, figs. 611–614.
  21. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 389, fig. 615, 616.
  22. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 337.
  23. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 332.
  24. ^ Peter Haiko: The architecture of the XX. Century - magazine for modern architecture . Representative cross-section through the 14 years published between 1901 and 1914. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-8030-3039-0 ([1901; 66] No. 22).
  25. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 332f.
    The house had a glazed faience paneling with figurative representations.
  26. ^ Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings , 4th year, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1902, plate 82 (with description of the house at Schadowstrasse 23 in Düsseldorf)
  27. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 347.
    The house brought about the “remarkable attempt to use glass surfaces to clad wall structures on the outer front [with] rich color effects”.
  28. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 333.
    The facades on Blumenstrasse also showed “graceful glass inlays” between plastered surfaces.
  29. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 382.
  30. ^ Hiltrud Kier: The Cologne Neustadt . Düsseldorf 1978, p. 194, image no. 470 .
  31. ^ Peter Haiko: The architecture of the XX. Century - magazine for modern architecture . Representative cross-section through the 14 volumes published from 1901 to 1914. Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-8030-3039-0 ([1905; 10] No. 161).
  32. ^ Alexander Kierdorf: Cologne. An architecture guide. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1999.
    Alois Ludwig (on p. 207) and Gottfried Wehling (on p. 211) for Villa Bestgen (no. 116, p. 70) are listed in the architects' register (pp. 204–211).
  33. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 67, fig. 37.
  34. ^ Peter Haiko: The architecture of the XX. Century - magazine for modern architecture . Representative cross-section through the 14 published years 1901 to 1914. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-8030-3039-0 ([1907; 41] no. 258).
  35. ↑ Competitions, competition news, supplement to the German competitions , No. 228 (from April 4, 1912), p. 1368. (Communication on the competition result, Wehling not named among the award-winning draftsmen)
  36. ↑ Concorso per l'esposzione del Frankfurter Meadows a Lipsia, 1912, Gottfried Wehling, Dusseldorf, DSTB 1912, tav. 51. In: Giorgio Piccinato: La costruzione dell 'urbanistica. Germania 1871-1914. Con una antologia di scritti di Reinhard Baumeister , Josef Stübben , Cornelius Gurlitt e Rudolph Eberstadt , a cura di Donatella Calabi. Officina Edizioni, Rome 1974.
    Werner Hegemann : The urban development (2 volumes). Wasmuth, Berlin 1912.
    Josef Stübben: The urban development. Volume 3. Gebhard, Leipzig 1924.
  37. ^ Gottfried Wehling, competition project for the Frankfurter-Wiesen Exposition, Leipzig, 1912, plate 65. In: Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co: History of World Architecture. Modern architecture. New York 1979, Volume 2, p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Wehling, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Barby
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1913
Place of death Dusseldorf