William Lossow

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William Lossow, around 1910

Walther William Lossow (born July 21, 1852 in Glauchau ; † May 24, 1914 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect .

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William Lossow was the third of four children of the businessman Emil Lossow and his wife Marie Emilie Albertine Lossow nee Walther. His brothers were Arthur Lossow and Max Lossow . He studied at the Chemnitz Higher Trade School and at the Dresden Polytechnic until 1878 . There he was a member of the Corps Thuringia .

While still studying engineering, Lossow discovered his passion for architecture and switched to the Dresden Art Academy under Karl Weißbach . After graduating in 1878, he spent a year studying in Italy.

Tiergartenstrasse 52: Lossow's own house in Dresden-Strehlen

After his return, Lossow opened the joint architecture office Lossow & Viehweger in Dresden with the architect Hermann Viehweger in 1880 , which existed until 1906. Lossow & Viehweger concentrated on the design of historicist villas, residential buildings and commercial buildings in Dresden and the surrounding area. The style was initially assigned to historicism . Later, elements of the Baroque were also taken up, making it easier to classify the buildings in the historic Dresden cityscape. After 1900, however, there were also influences from contemporary reform architecture .

After the Lossow & Viehweger office community was dissolved in 1906, Lossow worked with his son-in-law Max Hans Kühne (1874–1942) until his death . During this time, numerous important public buildings, sacred and industrial buildings as well as residential and manor houses were built, which are characterized by contemporary functionality, sensitive choice of materials and effective design.

In 1906 he was chairman of the exhibition board of the Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden , at the opening of which he led the exhibition together with Cornelius Gurlitt , King Friedrich August III of Saxony and Prince Johann Georg .

One of the best-known works of the Lossow und Kühne (also Lossow & Kühne ) office is Leipzig Central Station , which was built between 1909 and 1915 with the participation of then employee Rudolf Bitzan as Europe's largest terminus to this day.

William Lossow died of kidney disease in Heidelberg in 1914.

Private

Lossow had been married to the Glauchau factory owner's daughter Johanna Maria Gertrud Kratz since 1880. The marriage resulted in the daughter Hanna and the son Wilhelm Herbert.

Offices

Buildings (incomplete)

Lossow and Viehweger

Lossow and Kühne

The later work of the Lossow & Kühne office can be found at Max Hans Kühne .

  • Dresden: Garrison Church

  • Dresden: Dresden theater

  • Görlitz: synagogue

  • Helmsdorf (Stolpen): Castle

  • Leipzig: Central Station

  • Tübingen: House of the Corps Borussia Tübingen (Preußenhaus) on the Neckar side of the Österberg

  • Zinnwald: Evangelical Lutheran Church

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ text ilka Johann Priebsch heirs (první) - tzv. Obnovená. In: Architektura českých Němců 1848–1891 | Architecture of the Germans in Bohemia 1848–1891. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .

literature

  • Hartmut Gräfe: On the work of the Lossow & Kühne architectural association in Saxon Switzerland. in: Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz (Hg.): Calendar Sächsische Heimat 2017, calendar sheet 36th week
  • Nekrolog in: The art chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts. NF 25, 1914, col. 542.

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personal data
SURNAME Lossow, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lossow, Walther William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1914
Place of death Heidelberg