Gustav Wolff (architect)

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Gustav Wolff (born May 18, 1858 in Maar (Hesse) ; † April 5, 1930 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German architect .

Live and act

Wolff initially worked with the architect Theodor Lehmann in the joint architecture office Lehmann and Wolff in Halle (Saale). After Lehmann left, Wollf took on his nephew, the architect Wilhelm Ulrich, as a partner, and the architectural office was now called Wolff and Ulrich.

Wolff was chairman of the Hallesches Kunstgewerbeverein and a member of the Deutscher Werkbund (DWB) as well as the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). His style is shaped by the Werkbund idea, that is, in view of industrial production, to set the goal of "refining commercial work in the interaction of art, industry and craft".

Wolff's architectural style changed under the idea of ​​founding the Federation for Home and Environment in Germany in 1904 in Dresden. The aim was to highlight regional peculiarities of the building culture and to turn away from the foreign, copying, historical building forms connected with jewelry and stucco. Features included steep mansards and saddle roofs or hipped roofs, local porphyry as base stones and plastered facades with reduced decorative ornaments, as well as bay-like additions or gable-shaped gables as well as wooden shutters and wooden shingles from rural Swiss houses. The borrowings from the Swiss style were to be found all over Europe; as a neutral state, Switzerland also stood for a haven of democracy and clean nature. Gustav Wolff was also involved in the preservation of monuments and homeland security . On behalf of the Halle banker Heinrich Franz Lehmann (1847–1925), he restored the Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt from 1906–1908 , wrote a commemorative publication for its completion and in December 1908 was also a founding member of the Lauchstedter Theaterverein .

Wolff's daughter Johanna Schütz-Wolff (1896–1965) was a well-known German textile designer and graphic artist.

Awards

plant

Buildings and designs

  • Lauenstein in a historical view from 1899 after the fundamental rebuilding

  • Factory owner's villa Thiem & Töwe contains, in addition to a medieval-looking, still preserved cross vault, an unusually spacious hallway that extends over two floors

  • 1893–1894: Friedenstrasse 14 and 15 in Halle (Saale) with half-timbering in the attic and oriel tower
  • 1894: Mourning hall in the Jewish cemetery in Halle (Saale), Humboldtstrasse 52, today's synagogue , (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1896–1905: Lauenstein Castle - reconstruction, renovation, extension in a less strict late historicism with the first curved forms and thus echoes of Art Nouveau; Work on the medieval castle dragged on until the 1905s, as further architecture-relevant extensions were commissioned by the Halle lawyer Erhard Messmer. This castle architecture influenced the architects and had an influence on the clients of many other projects, for example grand floorboards, which did justice to the representation in the castle, created unusual spatial situations in the later small country mansions and were usually carried out with sophisticated stairs over several floors.
  • 1900–1903: Villa Burgstrasse 37a in Halle (Saale), (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1900–1903: Villa Advokatenweg 9 in Halle (Saale), (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1902–1903: Parish hall of the Laurentius parish in Halle (Saale), (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1904: E. Krause residential and commercial building at the Leipziger Turm in Halle (Saale), Leipziger Straße 85 (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1904: Municipal reading hall, today Halle city library , (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1905–1906: Artern town hall
  • 1906: House and factory building of the Thiem & Töwe apparatus factory , Hordorfer Straße 4, Halle (Saale), (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1906–1908: Commercial building for the bookstore Tausch und Grosse, founded in 1862, Große Ulrichstraße 38, Halle (Saale), brick building with tail gable, box bay window and colonnade on the third floor, representative Art Nouveau facade, tiled Art Nouveau lettering, (together with Theodor Lehmann)
  • 1908: Reconstruction of the Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt
  • 1912: Assmann department store in Halle (Saale), Grosse Ulrichstrasse 49
  • 1912–1913: Main grandstand of the horse racing track Halle (Saale)
  • 1914: Redesign of the building of the former Lehmann bank, Große Steinstraße 19 in Halle (Saale)
  • 1921: Windmühlenstrasse 3–5, Magdeburg-Rothensee
  • 1925–1926: Administration building Willy-Lohmann-Straße 6a, Halle (Saale), (together with Wilhelm Ulrich)
  • 1926: Villa Huth, Hoher Weg 13, Halle (Saale), (together with Wilhelm Ulrich)

Fonts

  • Wolff, Gustav: The Goethe Theater in Lauchstadt. Its history and its restoration in 1908. Gebauer & Schwetschke, Halle (Saale) 1908.
  • Wolff, Gustav: Seven questions for everyone who intends to build. Published by the Sachsen-Anhalt local group of the Association of German Architects. Gebauer & Schwetschke, Halle (Saale) 1910.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Wolff (Architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member directory of the German Werkbund, as of May 1, 1913.
  2. ↑ The refinement of commercial work in the interaction of art, industry and craft. Negotiation of the German Werkbund in Munich on July 11th and 12th, 1908. Voigtländer Verlag, Leipzig 1908. Digitized
  3. ^ Regina Meyer: The Spirituskreis at the University of Halle. A form of university socializing. In: Matthias Asche, Dietmar Klenke (eds.): From professor circles, student bars and academic networking. University socializing from the Enlightenment to the present. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-22520-9 , pp. 65–84, here p. 72.
  4. ^ Karl Josef Funk: Hermann Abert. Musician, musicologist, music teacher. Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-476-45065-1 , p. 85.
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung Volume 28, Ernst & Korn, 1908 p. 606 [1] accessed on April 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity , Volume 215, OR Reisland 1927. P. 98, 205. Digitalisat
  7. ^ Magdeburg housing cooperatives: Mieter-Bau-und Sparverein (PDF) p. 107, accessed on May 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Maar (Lauterbach)
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1930
Place of death Halle (Saale)