Leo night light

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Stumbling block in front of the house, Trautenaustraße 10, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Leo Nachtlicht (born August 12, 1872 in Bielitz , † September 22, 1942 in Berlin ) was a Jewish German architect .

Life

Leo Nachtlicht came to Berlin at the age of seven, where he first attended the community school and later the secondary school . After studying at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and the Technical University of Karlsruhe , which he graduated with the degree of engineering degree in Karlsruhe, he first worked in the architecture office of Bruno Möhring in Berlin. From 1904 to 1933 he ran his own studio in Berlin: There he built villas, country houses, the Gourmenia Palace at the zoological garden, various interior fittings for apartments, shops, arts and crafts and architecture exhibitions. In 1913 he taught at the 1910 composed of German Werkbund established advanced school of decorative art ; Hermann Henselmann was his employee from 1928 to 1930 .

Leo Nachtlicht was a member of the Berlin Architects and Engineers Association , the German Werkbund and the Association of German Architects ; his art collection of contemporary painting, including pictures by Emil Nolde , Ernst Oppler and Paula Modersohn-Becker , was auctioned in 1932. As a Jew, he was not accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in 1933/1934 and thus lost the opportunity to work as an independent architect in Germany. In 1938 he applied in vain for a work permit in London.

His daughters Ursula (1909–1999) and Ilse (* 1912) managed to emigrate on April 18, 1939. Ursula was able to gain a foothold as a photographer in London. Leo Nachtlicht and his wife Anna died on their way to the camp in 1942. They were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee .

On April 29, 2012, a stumbling block for Leo Nachtlicht was laid in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and in November 2012 BIKINI Berlin honored the work of Leo Nachtlicht with an exhibition.

Works (selection)

Building of the Berlin Secession

Web links

Commons : Leo Nachtlicht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Typewritten curriculum vitae of Leo Nachtlicht, dated June 24, 1931, in: Otto Schneid Papers - Correspondence before 1939 - Nachtlicht, Leo 5: 2, University of Toronto, https://archive.org/details/ottoschneid5_2/page/2
  2. ↑ Credit: BikiniBerlin, idea: Torsten Hilscher: Leo Nachtlicht, architect of the Weissensee Villa. TAG24 News, October 5, 2015, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  3. ^ Jan-Peter Wulf: Gourmenia-Palast, gastronomic predecessor of Bikini Berlin. April 3, 2014, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Interior decoration: my home, my pride; the entire art of living in pictures and words - 31.1920: work by architect Leo Nachtlicht. 1920, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  5. ^ Andres Imhof: Literature: Berliner Architekturwelt 10.1908, H. 6. kudaba, the culture database, December 1, 2012, accessed on April 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Max Perl auction catalog (digitized version)
  7. ^ Estate at the Leo Baeck Institute .
  8. ↑ Tagesspiegel - Potsdamer Latest News: Location: Night Light Villa The house in Sacrow has an eventful history. November 19, 2011, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ urbanite: homage to Leo night light. 2012, accessed April 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , issue 12/1910.
  11. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , issue 7/1913;Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , issue 7/1913.
  13. ^ Andres Imhof: Villa Tiede in Brandenburg on the Havel. In: kudaba, the culture database. February 19, 2005, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ German Art , Volume 50.
  15. ↑ a b c Heinrich de Fries : Modern villas and country houses. Wasmuth, Berlin 1925.
  16. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 45, 1925, No. 37.
  17. ^ Elisabeth M. Hajos, Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period. Albertus Verlag, Berlin 1928, p. 48, p. 128.
  18. ^ Roman Heiligenthal: Competition for a development plan for the trade fair and exhibition grounds in Berlin. In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture . 10th year 1926, issue 2, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-7945 , pp. 44–58; Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 45, 1925, No. 51.
  19. ↑ Anja Himmelsbach: The "Landhaus Perlis" in Sacrow by Leo Nachtlicht. In: Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege , Volume 19 2010, Issue 2, pp. 72–78.
  20. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 49th year 1929, No. 23.
  21. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Night light, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1942
Place of death Berlin