Hermann Goerke

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Hermann Goerke (born March 14, 1860 or 1868 in Elbing ; † April 13, 1943 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect .

Life and Buildings

According to the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon , Goerke was an autodidact who, from 1905, presented his architectural designs for tenement houses and villas at exhibitions in Berlin and Düsseldorf and also showed architectural travel sketches from Germany. However, he worked as an architect before. Before the turn of the century, he worked as an assistant to the city architect Wilhelm Schech in Landau in the Palatinate . Their joint work includes the boys' school, built in 1895/1896, today's old building of the Pestalozzi School . In 1895 the house at Marienring 20 in Landau was built according to Goerke's plans.

From 1902 to 1904 Goerke worked for the Düsseldorf architect Ernst Roeting . B. involved in the design of the house for Julius Grillo . In Düsseldorf Goerke joined the artists' association Malkasten .

In 1905 Goerke entered the architectural competition for the festival hall in Landau with a design ; his design did not win any of the prizes, but it was bought and executed until 1907.

On Sedan Day 1910, his Art Nouveau -style Bismarck Tower was inaugurated in Landau; it replaced a structure that had collapsed in 1909. The author Kai Buchholz already sees a shift from Art Nouveau to the formal language of Cubism and Neoclassicism in the Bismarck Tower , which is also expressed in other later works by Goerke, such as the sports accommodation halls in Kaiser Wilhelm Park (1912) in Düsseldorf.

Around 1910 Goerke designed a residential building with a studio, exhibition room and granny flat for the sculptor Adolf Bernd in Kaiserslautern .

In 1921 the field of honor and the memorial for the Düsseldorf men who died as soldiers in the First World War in 1595 were inaugurated at the Düsseldorf North Cemetery . Goerke designed the system together with the sculptor Hermann Nolte . Goerke and Nolte had won with their designs in a competition that had already been announced in 1915. They were then asked to collaborate on a second draft, which happened in 1916. The construction of the plant began in 1917, for which shell limestone was mainly used, but due to financial difficulties, completion dragged on into the post-war period.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Goerke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ While z. B. the personal data record of the German National Library and the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon indicate the year of birth 1860, can be found in other sources such as B. in the historical register of architects "archthek" also the indication 1868.
  2. ↑ Goerke, Hermann . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 310 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b c Kai Buchholz: Goerke, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 57, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22797-4 , p. 29.
  4. ↑ Landau houses 1876–1911 ( sbke.files.wordpress.com PDF).
  5. ↑ Architektonische Rundschau , 20th year 1904, issue 11, p. 87 (text) ( digitized version ), plate 85 (illustration of the street side) ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, p. 172. ( limited preview of Google books )
  7. ↑ Data on the festival hall at www.bildindex.de
  8. ↑ About us. (PDF) on stadtholding.de
  9. ^ Peter Heil: From the rural fortress town to the bourgeois small town. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 978-3-515-07427-8 , p. 162. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  10. ↑ Architektonische Rundschau , Volume 27, 1911, Volume 1, Page VI (short text) ( digitized version ), panel 4 (perspective drawing and floor plan) ( digitized version ) (digitized version from Heidelberg University Library)
  11. ↑ Nordfriedhof: Ehrenfeld for World War II deaths is being renovated. In: Rheinische Post from December 19, 2013
  12. ↑ New monuments. In: Template 41/74/2016. P. 3 ( digitized version ).
  13. ^ Memorial complex in the warrior honor cemetery of the city of Düsseldorf. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 56th year 1922, No. 13 (from February 15, 1922), pp. 77–79. ( delibra.bg.polsl.pl online as PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Goerke, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorke, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1860 or 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1943
Place of death Dusseldorf