Hugo awake

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Hugo Wach (born April 4, 1872 in Tübingen , † July 31, 1939 in Murnau am Staffelsee ; full name Hugo Carl (Karl) Cornelius Wach ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Hugo Wach was a son of the legal scholar Adolf Wach , on his mother's side a grandson of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and an uncle of the religious scholar and sociologist Joachim Wach .

Wach studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and then worked as an electrical engineer at Siemens & Halske and Oskar von Miller . This was followed in 1904 to study architecture among others August Thiersch . In addition, he received drawing lessons in London from Gerald Calcott Horsley (1862-1917), the son of the English painter and etcher John Calcott Horsley .

From 1910 Wach worked as a freelance architect, in between he went on several study trips to North and South America and the Far East. He could later sell in picture books and show exhibitions brought from there artistic architectural drawings - the quality deemed the jury members of the German Association of Artists as high enough to accept him as a full member in the DKB. Hugo Wach was a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin from 1919 to 1935 (1920 to 1936) . In the academic year 1923/1924 he was also dean of the Faculty of Construction.

Wach was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).

The Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich and / or the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin keep Wach's artistic estate.

plant

buildings

Fonts

  • Travel sketches. Publishing house "Der Zirkel", Berlin undated (1918).
  • On the go with a brush and pen. Publishing house Deutsche Bauzeitung, Berlin 1926.
  • Venezia. An architectural portrait in lithographs. Typescript , undated 1930.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awake, Hugo. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ s. Wach, Hugo CC In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 3 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Wach, Hugo CC ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 5, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ a b Hugo Wach. In: arch INFORM . Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Hugo Wach (1872-1939). Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ Monumental painting in the field of tension between historicism and art nouveau. The work of Wilhelm Köppen (1876–1917) (pdf), pp. 133–136. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wake up, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Awake, Hugo Carl Cornelius; Wach, Hugo Karl Cornelius; Awake, HCC; Awake, Hugo CC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1939
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee