Jean Keller (architect)

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Jean Keller , actually Johann Heinrich Cornelius (born March 28, 1844 in Darmstadt ; † November 22, 1921 in Augsburg ), was a German architect from historicism to the beginning of modern architecture. In his time he was one of the most famous architects in Augsburg and had a significant impact on local and regional architecture. His skills extended into the field of interior design and furniture design. Keller was very active for Friedrich von Hessing , the founder of what was then Europe's largest orthopedic sanatorium in Augsburg-Göggingen .

Buildings (selection)

augsburg

  • Residential building at Schaezlerstrasse 8, facade structured in a late Classicist style , around 1875
  • Another villa in Kellers at Schaezlerstrasse 3 was demolished a few years ago because of the new building of the headquarters of Lechwerke AG .
  • " Haag-Villa ", director 's villa of the former " Johannes Haag Maschinen- und Röhrenfabrik AG " (founder of the German central heating industry, merged into Sulzer AG ), Johannes-Haag-Strasse 14, Neo-Renaissance , before 1892, today owned by Stadtwerke Augsburg
  • Motherhouse of the Evangelical Diakonissenanstalt , as well as chapel and park enclosure, Frölichstrasse 17, neo-Gothic brick building , 1881–1893
  • Augsburger Kammgarn-Spinnerei (AKS), Schäfflerbachstraße 26: Large parts of the buildings, which were once over 50 hectares, but now largely destroyed, came from Jean Keller. The following of Keller's buildings have been preserved: old steam engine house, 1893; two director's villas with wash house; former wash and bath house of the AKS workers' settlement , 1879, neo-baroque plaster structure; Sorting building in the style of an “industrial basilica”; Head building of the northwest sheds in the style of a factory castle (there today the Bavarian Textile and Industry Museum, "tim").
  • Former United Shoe Factory Berneis-Wessels , August-Wessels-Strasse 5; mostly around 1903–1912 based on plans by Jean Keller, Eduard Rottmann and Philipp Jakob Manz .
  • Augsburg-Pfersee : Factory and administration building of the metal industry company JN Eberle & Cie. GmbH (first fretsaw factory in the world; today part of Greiffenberger AG ), Eberlestrasse 28, brick building in Art Nouveau style , built 1903–1906 / 1907
  • Former insurance company for Swabia and Neuburg, today the State Surveying Office, Holbeinstrasse 10, neo-baroque, in the style of Italian palaces, 1910
  • Former residential building of the Insurance Company for Swabia and Neuburg, today Social Court, Holbeinstraße 12, neo-baroque, 1907
  • Reconstruction of the former town house Ulrichsplatz 12 Martini-Palais , today a law firm: 1894 reconstruction of the rear building in the inner courtyard and the stair tower in the neo-renaissance style, in 1897 the neo-baroque front facade as well as the interior of the older building. The client was the textile entrepreneur Martini , at that time the owner of the former school calico factory .
  • Conversion of a former Fugger house into a neo-Gothic department store "Kröll & Nill" 1898/99, Annastraße 19, destroyed in the war.

Augsburg-Göggingen

Kurhaus Göggingen

" Hessing'sche Ökonomie- und Heilanstalt " (Europe's largest orthopedic clinic at the time it was built; builder Hofrat Friedrich von Hessing ): several buildings in the entire complex in romantic neo-baroque styles from the early days .

  • Main building (today “Hessing Clinic”), Hessingstraße 17, built from 1868. Two wing buildings (east and south wings) with neo-baroque west gables have been preserved
  • Ehrenhof / Drei-Flügel-Anlage Milchkuranstalt, Klausenberg 8a – c, 1875. The east wing still preserved and used, among other things, as a bicycle shop. Front and west building replaced by new building.
  • Multifunctional theater, Klausenberg 6. The building constructed in glass, iron and stone between 1885 and 1886 combines a multifunctional society house, spa house, theater and palm house / winter garden, surrounded by a typical landscape garden based on the English model of the pleasur garden . At least in Europe, it is the only preserved building of its kind from the Wilhelminian era. After extensive damage due to renovations and a fire on October 30, 1972, it was restored true to the original from 1988 to 1998 and is now used by Parktheater GmbH.
  • former chapel of the Hessing institute, 1888
  • St. Johannes Institution Church , today the chapel of the Hessing Clinic, Wellenburger Strasse 12, 1890–1893. Neo-Baroque, neo-Gothic inside.

District of Augsburg

  • Fischach -Elmischwang, house No. 1: Former castle, today retirement home, 1902/03. Historicizing.
  • Hurlach : reconstruction of the castle, 1898/1899.

Allgäu

Middle Franconia

  • Bernd Vollmar: The building history of the Kurhaus area . In: Vollmar / Simnacher: ... the fairy temple of the muse , Augsburg 1999.

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personal data
SURNAME Keller, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Johann Heinrich Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of historicism
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1921
Place of death augsburg