Johannes Kronfuß

Detail of the residential building in Bamberg, Ottostraße 26 (1906), a listed building

5. Bamberg Synagogue (1909–1910), destroyed in 1938

Department store in Bamberg, Grüner Markt 23–27, former Tietz department store (1909–1910), a listed building

Johannes Kronfuß ( June 19, 1872 in Budapest , Hungary - May 29, 1944 in Córdoba , Argentina ) was an architect who first worked in Germany and, after he emigrated in 1911, in Argentina.

Life

Kronfuß studied at the Technical University of Munich and then received assignments in Russia , Slovakia and Germany. In Munich, Kronfuß was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative .

After that, Kronfuß lived and worked for a few years in Bamberg , where he created numerous important buildings, such as the fifth synagogue on the edge of the Hainviertel (corner of Herzog-Max-Straße / Urbanstraße). The serving building of the Ecken-Büttner brewery The club house of the Jewish Resource Society was also planned by Johannes Kronfuß in 1904 . The resource company was 1,827 as of Jewish reading club founded and was the counterpart to the reading societies of the non-Jewish urban educated middle class .

As the winner of the architectural competition for the University of Buenos Aires , Kronfuß decided to emigrate to Argentina in 1911. In addition to the designs for numerous buildings, he taught at the University of Buenos Aires and moved to Córdoba in 1921.

Kronfuss was also interested in other technical issues, including on April 23, 1905, a patent (No. 177193) for pneumatic tires for car tires.

Fonts (selection)

Description of the new synagogue in Bamberg . In: A. Eckstein (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the new synagogue in Bamberg . Pressure and Verlag der Handelsdruckerei, Bamberg 1910, OCLC 162709305 , p. 131-134 .
Arquitectura Colonial en Argentina. Cordoba 1920 ( archive.org ).

buildings

compare list of architectural monuments in Bamberg

literature

Kronfuß, Johannes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 576 .
Dieter Klein: On the work of the Hungarian architect Johannes Kronfuß in Argentina . In: Contributions to monument studies . Lipp, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-87490-551-9 , pp. 107-112 .
Dieter Klein, Carlota Rauscher: From Bamberg to Buenos Aires. On the work of the architect Johannes Kronfuß in Argentina. In: Homeland of Bamberg. Year 1993, No. 1, p. 21.
Manfred F. Fischer: “About Franconian castles and mansions”: a lecture by the Bamberg architect Johannes Kronfuss from 1905 . In: Report of the historical association for the maintenance of the history of the former prince-bishopric of Bamberg . tape 145 , 2009, p. 249-277 .
Ana María Martínez de Sánchez: Formas materiales de sepulturas en Córdoba, Argentina, a principios del siglo XX. Juan Kronfuss. In: Boletín de monumentos históricos. No. 19 (May – August) 2010, pp. 188–200 (Spanish, boletin-cnmh.inah.gob.mx PDF, biography with numerous photographs).

Web links

Commons : Johannes Kronfuß - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kronfuss, Johannes modernabuenosaires.org (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ Centenario del Recinto de Sesiones - Legislatura de la Provincia de Córdoba. gob.ar, accessed on November 11, 2019 (European Spanish): "Fallció en la ciudad de Córdoba el 29 de mayo de 1944"
^ The serving building of the Ecken-Büttner brewery in Bamberg. Architect: Johannes Kronfuß . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . 40th year, no. 2 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart January 5, 1906, p. 9-14 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Ernst Neuberg: 177193 - Pneumatic tires for wheels of motor vehicles or the like. with protective insert made of metal tape . In: Yearbook of the Automobile and Motorboat Industry . Boll & Pickardt, Berlin 1904, p. 369 ( Blattn383 - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kronfuß, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kronfuss, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Architect in Germany and Argentina
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1944
Place of death	Cordoba

[1] Centenario del Recinto de Sesiones - Legislatura de la Provincia de Córdoba. gob.ar, accessed on November 11, 2019 (European Spanish): "Fallció en la ciudad de Córdoba el 29 de mayo de 1944"

[2] The serving building of the Ecken-Büttner brewery in Bamberg. Architect: Johannes Kronfuß . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . 40th year, no. 2 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart January 5, 1906, p. 9-14 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] Ernst Neuberg: 177193 - Pneumatic tires for wheels of motor vehicles or the like. with protective insert made of metal tape . In: Yearbook of the Automobile and Motorboat Industry . Boll & Pickardt, Berlin 1904, p. 369 ( Blattn383 - Internet Archive ).