Grand Ducal Saxon Building Trade School Weimar
The Großherzoglich-Sächsische Baugewerkenschule in Weimar was originally an evening and Sunday technical school for building tradesmen (cf.Building Trade School ) established in 1829 by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray under the name Free Trade School was subordinated to the respective senior building directors. The institution, called the State Building School after its nationalization in 1921 , was merged with the Gotha Building School in 1926.
The aim of the Free Trade School was to supplement the courses offered by the Princely Free Drawing School , which had existed since 1776, and in whose premises it was initially housed before suitable rooms in the Jägerhaus were allocated to it. Later on, the building trade school maintained close contacts with the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts, founded in 1908 and directed by Henry van de Velde , and its successor organization, the Bauhaus founded by Walter Gropius , as neither of them succeeded in including regular architecture training in their curriculum.
Directors
- 1829 Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray , architect
- 1848 Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan (1814–1884), architect
- 1884 Franz Wilhelm Julius Bormann (1830–1892), architect
- 1892 Otto Stahr
- 1897 Ernst Kriesche, architect
- 1910 Paul Klopfer
Teacher
- 1875–1881: Emil Zschimmer (1842–1917), teacher of freehand drawing
student
- Rudolf Zapfe (1860–1934), German architect
- Thilo Schoder (1888–1979), German-Norwegian architect and designer
- Ernst Neufert (1900–1986), German architect