Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas

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Hans Karl Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas (born December 31, 1849 in St. Gallen ( Switzerland ), † August 17, 1921 in Munich ) was a Swiss architect and painter .

Hans Eduard von Berlepsch (around 1910)

Life

Hans Eduard von Berlepsch: View into a baroque church

From 1868 to 1871 von Berlepsch was a student a. a. by Gottfried Semper ; in Frankfurt a. M. and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , he trained as a painter. After a brief activity as a battle painter in Bulgaria (1879), he worked as an architect, interior designer and craft designer in Munich Art Nouveau (Villa Tobler in Zurich, Villa Berlepsch in Planegg near Munich). Strongly influenced by the English garden city movement , to whose most important representatives (including Charles Rennie Mackintosh , Raymond Unwin, Charles Robert Ashbee ) he maintained contacts, he submitted drafts for settlements and workers' houses that were committed to social reform (draft for the garden city of Munich-Perlach , 1910). At his country estate in Planegg he founded and directed a "School for Painting and Decorative Art".

student

  • Änne Koken , student of von Berlepsch-Valendas in Munich for three years

Fonts

  • Farmhouse and workers' house in England. A travel study. Stuttgart 1907.
  • The garden city of Munich-Perlach. Munich 1910.
  • The garden city movement in England, its development and its current status. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1912. ( online in the Internet Archive)
  • Motifs of German architecture of the XVI., XVII. and XVIII. Century in historical arrangement. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1890–1893 ( digitized version )
    • Volume 1: Early and High Renaissance, 1500–1650 ( digitized version )
    • Volume 2: Baroque and Rococo, 1650–1800 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Christina Melk-Haen: Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas. Pioneer of Art Nouveau in Munich and Zurich . Fotorotar, Egg 1993, ISBN 3-905647-56-7 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1988).

Web links

Commons : Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. April 1875, entry in the register for Berlepsch
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen : Koken, (1) Änne. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 206f.