Isaak Auerbach
Isaak Auerbach (born April 11, 1827 in Vreden ; † June 9, 1875 in Cologne ) was a German architect , land and hydraulic engineer and master builder.
Life and Buildings
Isaak Auerbach was a son of the businessman Levy Auerbach and the Caroline Kaufmann, nee. Body. He probably studied in Berlin and settled in Cologne in the 1860s to work as a land and hydraulic engineer. His uncles, the real estate agents and landowners Markus and Jacob Kaufmann , had probably advised him to do this . From 1870 the latter was called "Ritter von Kaufmann-Asser". These two uncles worked together with the company Joseph Kaufmann & Sons and were very successful as real estate dealers.
Auerbach built a palace-like house in Cologne in 1862/63 for his two uncles with the address Am Hof 20–22. This neo-renaissance building was built on the site of the former Brabant court, which was demolished in 1860. Inside it was decorated with paintings by Theodor Mintrop . The building served as the headquarters of the British occupying forces after the First World War and was demolished in 1927 to make way for the Baum house, which was designed by Helbig & Klöckner .
The architect Georg Düssel was trained at Auerbach ; His job reference shows which projects Auerbach was involved in from 1865 to 1868: He worked for the A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bauverein and planned new buildings for Jakob Langen at Martinsfeldstrasse 41, for the mining engineer August Marx in Bonn (Bonner Talweg 4) and for the concertmaster Otto von Königslöw in the Taubenstraße in Cologne and in the Jahnstraße 24.
Langen's house, originally planned as a villa, was a five-axis building in a mixture of classicism and renaissance styles. It existed until 1935. Königslöw's brick-faced house at Jahnstraße 24 has not been preserved. For Königslöw Auerbach also designed the - also not preserved - house at Frankstrasse 5, which was laid out as a mirror image of the neighboring house with number 3. This house was designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Bringsken .
One can only guess at many of Auerbach's buildings. His authorship of the houses at Friedenstrasse 22 and 24, possibly his last buildings, is confirmed. Wolfram Hagspiel concludes from the clientele that Auerbach served, "that Isaak Auerbach was a highly respected architect in the 15 years of his work in Cologne, whose good reputation was also known beyond the borders of this city".
On January 3, 1865, Isaak Auerbach married Elisabeth Wilhelmina Fischer, a daughter of the royal land rent master and secret accountant Johann Fischer.
literature
- Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne and his Jewish architects , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 29–34.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne and his Jewish architects , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 33.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auerbach, Isaak |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, land and hydraulic engineer and builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vreden |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1875 |
| Place of death | Cologne |