Hugo Göpfert

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Hermann Hugo Göpfert (* 1865 , † 1932 ) was a German architect , master builder and founder .

Rest home of the Hugo Göpfert Foundation in Grillenburg (1938), today a residential building
tomb

Göpfert studied architecture at the Dresden Art Academy and then ran an architecture office in Dresden, around 1924 in the house at Reitbahnstrasse 39, most recently in the house at Prager Strasse 52 - the building of the Princess Theater , which is not only one of his most important buildings, but also from 1924 to 1924 to found the Prinzess-Theater Lichtspiele GmbH in 1927 by himself.

He also built u. a. 1902 the country house for Artur Robert Werner in Niederlößnitz , Humboldtstraße 11.

Hugo Göpfert set up a foundation named after him at the Academy of Art, which, until the Second World War, awarded the Hugo Göpfert Prize (also known as Rome Prize for short ) in the form of three scholarships of 4000 Reichsmarks each after completing his studies Painting, sculpture and architecture to enable a year-long study visit to Italy. For this reason, a street in Dresden-Striesen was (re-) named after him in 1935, but was renamed again as Mansfelder Strasse in 1953 .

Winners of the Hugo Göpfert Prize were z. B. Albert Braun (1928), Hermann Kohlmann (1934), Kurt Wünsche (1936), Siegfried Vogt (1937), Johannes Fischer (1938) and Fritz Cremer (1942) as well as Erik Mailick and Rudolf Löhner . This price was most recently added to the Saxon State Prize .

In Grillenburg , Frauensteiner Straße 2, the Hugo Göpfert Foundation built a rest home that is now used as a residential building.

Hugo Göpfert found his final resting place in the urn grove in Dresden-Tolkewitz . Since 1907 he had been a member of the Corps Lusatia Dresden.

literature

  • Manfred Altner: Dresden. From the royal art academy to the college of fine arts (1764–1989). Dresden 1990, p. 407 and p. 607.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dresden Princess Theater. In: Kinowiki. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Address book of the city of Dresden 1932. (Göpfert, Herm. Hugo, master builder and architect, Sidonienstraße 8 IV, office Prager Straße 52)
  3. ^ Mansfelder Strasse in the Dresden City Wiki
  4. ↑ Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, inventory 12970, personal estate Hermann Kastner , No. 05, June 1945 - April 1947: Minutes of the meeting of the board of directors of the Hugo Göpfert Foundation chaired by Kastner regarding the foundation's property and property
  5. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 1402
personal data
SURNAME Göpfert, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göpfert, Hermann Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, builder and founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
DATE OF DEATH 1932