Hans Richter (architect)

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Hans Richter (born April 14, 1882 in Königswalde , Bohemia, † December 10, 1971 in Dresden ) was a German architect . He is considered one of the most important representatives of New Building in Dresden.

Life

House garden in Dresden
Large housing estate Trachau in Dresden

Richter completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, worked as a construction intern in Rumburg and learned at the state trade school in Reichenberg . In 1902 Richter came to Dresden and studied architecture and art history at the Dresden Art Academy from 1910 to 1915 . His teachers included Paul Wallot , German Bestelmeyer and Cornelius Gurlitt . During this time, Richter was already successfully participating in various architecture competitions.

After a brief activity as an architect under Oskar Kramer in the Saxon state building administration, Richter settled in Dresden as a freelance architect in 1919. In the following years Richter devoted himself to three construction tasks: the construction of modern villas, industrial construction and the construction of large estates. If his buildings initially showed expressionist traits, they were later committed to the rational New Building. His most important building project of this style was the large settlement of Trachau . According to the reactionary understanding of art of the National Socialists, Richter was defamed as a "cultural Bolshevik" from 1933, excluded from public contracts and dismissed as the builder of the Trachau housing estate.

Herbert Schneider , with whom Richter realized the factory building on Zwickauer Strasse in Dresden in 1942, was one of the employees of his architectural office . After the end of the Second World War , in which Richter lost his property, he only appeared occasionally as an architect. He successfully participated in some competitions, but the designs were not implemented. In Dresden he was no longer commissioned as an architect. One of his last works from 1952 was the reconstruction of the Berlin Volksbühne . Richter died in 1971 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden. His grave has not been preserved.

Buildings (selection)

  • 1923–1926: Villa Heller in Aussig , Rooseveltova 1815/4
  • 1925: Water tower in Hellerau , Moritzburger Weg
  • 1925: Landhaus Paluert in Varnsdorf
  • 1926: Hille-Werke building in Dresden- Reick
  • 1926–1928: GEWOBAG residential buildings in Dresden- Pieschen , u. a. on Arno-Lade-Straße
  • 1927: Central school in Ostritz
  • 1928–1933: Trachau housing estate
  • 1929: House garden in Dresden, Renkstrasse
  • 1929: Building of the Schindler knitwear factory in Krásná Lípa
  • 1930: Villa of the textile manufacturer Josef Franz Palme in Krásná Lípa
  • 1930: Buildings of the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden (design of the hall complexes games, sports, medicine; Munich house, model house for large families)
  • 1942: Factory building in Dresden, Zwickauer Strasse
  • 1952–1954: Reconstruction of the Berlin Volksbühne

literature

  • Fritz Löffler : Hans Richter. In: Baumeister, magazine for architecture, planning, environment , 64th year 1967, p. 1304.
  • Bernhard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2011, p. 87, p. 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2011, p. 216.
  2. ↑ See propieschen.de
  3. ↑ a b Fritz Löffler: Hans Richter. In: Baumeister, magazine for architecture, planning, environment, 64th year 1967, p. 1304.
  4. ↑ Slavné vily Palme-Villa (Czech) (accessed on January 21, 2019)
  5. ↑ Lužické hory - Krásná Lípa (Czech) (accessed May 7, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Königswalde
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1971
Place of death Dresden