Hermann Ziller (architect)

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Hermann Ziller (born June 28, 1844 in Potsdam ; † September 15, 1915 there ; full name: Hermann August Ziller ) was a German architect and builder . He was the son of the architect and Prussian government building officer Christian Heinrich Ziller (1791–1868) and the younger brother of Carl Ernst Heinrich Ziller (1832–1866).

He came from the Saxon builder family Ziller through his father . His father was a cousin of Christian Gottlieb Ziller . Thus he was a second cousin of the builder of the Greek king Ernst Ziller , who later worked in Greece, and his younger brothers, the brothers Moritz and Gustav Ziller , who were active in Saxony .

Live and act

Hermann Ziller: Berlin City Palace; Demolition of the houses of the Schloss Freiheit: perspective view with the palace facade from the palace bridge. Hand drawing 1886.
Hermann Ziller: Berlin City Palace; Demolition of the houses of the Schloss Freiheit: site plan a) state, b) planning. Plan sketch 1885.

Hermann Ziller attended grammar school in Potsdam and then studied from 1868 to 1871 at the Berlin Building Academy under Richard Lucae, among others, where he graduated as a master builder. From May 1869 he was a member of the Berlin Architects' Association .

From 1871 to 1874 Ziller worked as a studio manager at Richard Lucae. During this time he took part in the preparatory work for the Frankfurt Opera House, which opened in 1880, and the new building for the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1872 he received the Schinkel Prize and the Schinkel Medal for his design "Villa on the Sandwerder near Wannsee ".

After a stay in Italy from 1874 to 1875, he worked from 1875 as a freelance builder and architect in Berlin. From this time on, Ziller made annual study trips through Germany, Italy and France, from which he brought numerous sketches.

Hermann Ziller was the architect of the Charlottenburg residential and department store Kurfürstendamm 227 ( Kaufhaus Grünfeld , Ziller & Voß) built in 1887/1888 , which Herbert Noth rebuilt in 1950/1951. Numerous plans are known from him, which show the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace as well as the redesign of the palace square , reconstruction of the anteroom of the theater and plans for the national monument for Kaiser Wilhelm (Hall of Fame in front of the Brandenburg Gate), but which were not realized.

On June 8, 1879 Ziller was one of the founding members of the Association of Berlin architect , a spin-off from the Architects Association of Berlin .

In addition, Hermann Ziller wrote the most comprehensive artist monograph of its time on Karl Friedrich Schinkel , his father's teacher.

Hermann Ziller lived with his younger sister Marie (1846–1920) in the house he inherited after the death of his parents at Brandenburger Straße 28a in the 8th district of Potsdam, but stayed mainly in Berlin, where he lived in 1891 at Halleschen Straße 15 was reported. Ziller was buried in the old cemetery of Potsdam in 1915 in his family's hereditary funeral (line 5, no. 4), which, however, was leveled in the early 1980s.

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Buildings and designs

  • 1881: Drafts for the exemption and expansion of the Berlin City Palace (not implemented)
  • 1887/1888: residential and department store Kurfürstendamm 227 in Berlin
  • 1888: extended drafts for the exemption and expansion of the Berlin City Palace (not implemented)
  • 1890: Drafts for a Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument (as a hall of fame in front of the Brandenburg Gate) in Berlin (not realized)
  • Drafts for the renovation of the vestibules of the Schauspielhaus in Berlin (not realized)

Fonts

  • Schinkel. (= Knackfuß artist monographs. XXVIII.) Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1897 ( archive.org ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Ziller  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data compiled by the Potsdam City Archives on February 26, 2009. Sources: WA 1826/63, registration and death registers; 1-1 / 20, No. 4966 (Citizens' Register); 1-1 / 29, p. 130 (citizen's role).
  2. ↑ Ziller, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 501 .
personal data
SURNAME Ziller, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziller, Hermann August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1915
Place of death Potsdam