Karl Wach

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Karl Wach (born January 7, 1878 in Höchst am Main , † June 21, 1952 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect . In the 1920s and early 1930s he was one of the representatives of New Building in Düsseldorf.

Life

Wach studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and passed the main diploma examination there in 1905. Nothing is known about his first professional positions; he came to Düsseldorf by 1912 at the latest.

Wach taught at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which had taken over the architecture department of the School of Applied Arts in 1919 . Since 1919 at the latest he was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). From 1928 to 1946 he ran his private architecture office in Düsseldorf in partnership with the architect Heinrich Rosskotten .

Buildings and designs

Matthäikirche,
Düsseldorf-Düsseltal
Allianz administration building , Cologne (2010)
Grain silos at the Wheat Mill Plange, Düsseldorf (2012)
  • 1912: Competition draft for a "general development plan for Greater Düsseldorf" (with the proposal for a new town hall building in connection with a second Rhine bridge; not executed)
  • Competition 1912, execution 1913–1922: Main building of the " New Art Academy " in Düsseldorf-Stockum (1937 rebuilt in the course of the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk , demolished in 1974 for the benefit of the Aquazoo )
  • 1913: Competition design for a secondary school with a director's apartment in ( Duisburg -) Ruhrort (awarded one of five equal prizes)
  • 1917: Forest cemetery in Cologne-Vogelsang
  • Competition 1921, execution 1922–1926: Administration building of Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations in Düsseldorf, Fritz-Roeber-Straße 2 (2nd prize, award of contract to Wach after the death of first-placed Karl Beck ) ( Phoenix-Haus has been a listed building since 1988, since 2001 house of the public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf)
  • 1925: Competition design for a skyscraper near Deutzer Brücke in Cologne
  • 1928: Competition design for the August Thyssen House in Düsseldorf
  • 1928–1930: Buildings of the Rhineland colliery (" Pattbergschächte " I / II) in ( Moers -) Repelen (Lower Rhine)
  • 1929: Competition design for the factory and administration building of H. Fuld & Co. AG in Frankfurt am Main (mentioned with praise)
  • 1929: Competition design for an extension of the Reichstag building
  • 1929: Grain silos of the Wheat Mill Plange in Düsseldorf, at the harbor
  • 1929–1930: Protestant parish hall in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Collenbachstrasse / Pfalzstrasse
  • 1930–1931: Protestant Matthäikirche in Düsseldorf-Düsseltal, Lindemannstrasse / Schumannstrasse
  • before 1931: House in Kilchberg (Switzerland)
  • 1931–1933: Administration building for Allianz and Stuttgarter Verein Versicherungs-AG in Cologne, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 31–41
  • 1931–1933: own house in Düsseldorf-Golzheim, Emmericher Straße 28
  • 1938: Mausoleum of the couple Luise and Adolf Haeuser in Frankfurt am Main, main cemetery
  • 1938–1940: Walzstahlhaus office building in Düsseldorf, Kasernenstrasse 36 (a listed building since 1993)
  • 1940–1941: "Zapp-Haus" office building in Düsseldorf, Bleichstrasse (demolished in 2008)

literature

  • Luigi Monzo: Building churches in the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf. In: Das Münster - magazine for Christian art and art history, 68. 2015/1 (April), pp. 74–82.
  • Jürgen Wiener (Hrsg.): The Gesolei and the Düsseldorf architecture of the 20s. JP Bachem, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1445-4 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Wach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Klapheck : Architecture and Art Academy. An outline of the history of the architecture department of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. For the centenary of the academy's re-establishment on November 1, 1919. In: Wasmuths MONTHS FOR BUILDING ART, 4th year 1919/1920, issue 7/8, pp. 195–258. (on this draft pp. 255–257) ( for download as a PDF file with approx. 28 MB)
  2. ^ Draft for the Düsseldorf Art Academy (1st prize and intended for execution). By Karl Wach (BDA) and Heinrich Beck, Isernhagen (Plate 139–140) , in Architektonische Rundschau, 1913
  3. ^ Werner Hegemann : Tower house on the Reichstag ?! In: Städtebau (as a supplement to Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture ), 25th year 1930, pp. 97-104. (Illustration of the design on p. 97) ( for download as a PDF file with approx. 5 MB)
  4. ^ Hiltrud Kier , Werner Schäfke : The Cologne rings . History and splendor of a street. 2nd Edition. Vista Point , Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-88973-066-3 , p. 21 .
personal data
SURNAME Wake up, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH High on the Main
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1952
Place of death Dusseldorf