Karl Doflein
Karl Wilhelm Theodor Doflein , often Carl Doflein , (born April 26, 1852 in Wörrstadt , † April 21, 1944 in Bad Blankenburg ) was a German architect of historicism . He particularly emerged in the field of Protestant church building .
Life
Doflein was born in 1852 as the son of Karl Doflein, supplementary judge at the Grand Ducal Hessian Peace Court in Wörrstadt, and his wife Wilhelmine. He was married to Amanda, b. Schmitt, both lived when Dofleins died at the age of almost 92 in the “Silentarium” retirement home in Bad Blankenburg .
No details have survived about Doflein's youth and schooling. With regard to his professional training, he is referred to as a student of Carl Schäfer in Kassel and Franz Schmitz in Cologne , with both of whom he may have gained initial experience in church building. From 1878 to 1888 he worked in the building management of the Reichspost under August Kind and was involved in the construction of various post offices in major German cities. He later worked as a freelance architect in Berlin .
Work (excerpt)
- 1881–1884: Reconstruction of Boitzenburg Castle ( neo-Renaissance style )
- 1882: Design for the parish church of St. Sturmius in Rinteln (design without building intent for the monthly competition of the Berlin Architects' Association ; neo-Gothic )
- 1883/1884: Cemetery chapel for the New Cemetery in Greifswald (broken off, sandstone sculpture and window inserted in the Löcknitz village church )
- 1888: District building in Prenzlau (competition design 1883)
- 1891–1893: Church of the Good Shepherd in Berlin-Friedenau (neo-Gothic)
- 1892–1898: Matthäuskirche in Burbach (after collapse due to inadequate foundations, dismantled in an early construction phase and rebuilt from 1895 according to plans by Eduard Philipp Arnold )
- 1892–1894: Pauluskirche in Dortmund (neo-Gothic)
- 1895: Competition draft for the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig (awarded; not executed)
- 1897: Friedenskirche in Hamborn ( neo-Romanesque )
- 1904–1911: Renovation and restoration of the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken
- 1906–1908: Protestant Church Nünschweiler (neo-Romanesque)
- before 1909: Country house for Louis Merck (called: "Haus Darsberg") in Seeheim ( Bergstrasse )
- as well as award-winning competition designs for churches in Basel , Krefeld and Zweibrücken
literature
- Doflein, Karl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 379 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - (erroneously gives the year of birth as 1856)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Full name according to the birth certificate ( digital copy )
- ↑ a b Written information from the Bad Blankenburg city administration, January 20, 2011 ( digital copy )
- ↑ Other sources cite life data from 1856–1943, such as GND 1116618907 (referring to AKL online ) and the German Biographical Archive (DBA). Query date: June 3, 2017.
- ^ Draft for the parish church of St. Sturmius in Rinteln in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
- ^ Karl Doflein: The new district house in Prenzlau. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. 9, 1889, No. 13, March 30, 1889, pp. 115–117.
- ^ Draft for the Kreisstandsehaus in Prenzlau in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
- ^ A b Peter Fromann: A Prussian renovated crypt of the Wittelsbacher. In: Pfälzischer Merkur , May 7, 2011
- ↑ The Protestant Church in Nünschweiler. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 37, 1917, No. 66, August 15, 1917, pp. 417-420.
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 43, 1909, No. 19, March 6, 1909, pp. 121–124.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Doflein, Karl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doflein, Karl Wilhelm Theodor (full name); Doflein, Carl (alternative spelling) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1852 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wörrstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1944 |
Place of death | Bad Blankenburg |