Gustav Halmhuber

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Gustav Halmhuber, 1897
Gustav Halmhuber, 1902
Mannheim water tower
Memorial for accident miners in Wilhelmsglück near Schwäbisch Hall and floor plan of the Straub family's grave chapel in Geislingen
Draft Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument

Gustav Halmhuber (born March 23, 1862 in Stuttgart ; † August 25, 1936 there ; full name: Gustav Friedrich Halmhuber ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Halmhuber came from an old family of carpenters, formerly from West Prussia. From 1880 he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart under Christian Friedrich Leins , at the same time he attended the Stuttgart Art Academy , later also the art academies in Berlin and Karlsruhe, at the latter where he learned from Ferdinand Keller . After completing his training, he worked briefly for the architect Adolf Gnauth in Nuremberg .

On February 21, 1893 Halmhuber was "accepted as a Freemason", later joined the Lodge Wilhelm to German allegiance .

In 1885, Halmhuber was able to assert himself with his design for the water tower on Friedrichsplatz in Mannheim , but he no longer supervised its construction because he was already involved in the work on the Reichstag building in Berlin as an employee of Paul Wallot . It was there that the sculptor Reinhold Begas became aware of him, through whose intermediary Halmhuber was commissioned to plan the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument in 1894 . In 1895 he designed the Siegesallee in Berlin-Tiergarten. From 1897 to 1906 he worked as a teacher at the Technical University of Stuttgart, until 1909 he was director at the Cologne School of Applied Arts (later Cologne Werkschulen ) and teacher at the Cologne Commercial College (which later became part of the University of Cologne ). From 1909 until his retirement in 1928 he was a professor at the Technical University of Hanover . In Hanover he worked on the expansion of the New Town Hall .

Halmhuber held the titles of senior building officer and secret government councilor and was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). In 1922, the Technical University of Stuttgart awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.).

His estate is in the Hanover City Archives.

Buildings (selection)

Publications

  • Gustav Halmhuber: Architectural Thoughts. Collection of 80 sheets with design drawings. Berlin: Wasmuth, 1897.
  • Gustav Halmhuber: Free Studies. With 34 partly colored plates. Stuttgart: self-published, 1900.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Halmhuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Gustav Halmhuber. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover. Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 152.
personal data
SURNAME Halmhuber, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halmhuber, Gustav Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1936
Place of death Stuttgart