Ludwig Neher
Ludwig Neher (born July 9, 1850 in Stuttgart ; † May 17, 1916 in Frankfurt am Main ; full name: Ludwig Franz Michael Neher or Ludwig von Neher ) was a German architect .
Life
His grandfather Joseph Anton Neher (1776–1832) in Biberach an der Riss was a painter . His father Bernhard von Neher was a well-known history painter .
From 1869 to 1873 he completed his training at the Stuttgart Polytechnic . From 1873 he worked in Frankfurt am Main, initially as an employee of Paul Wallot and from 1876 to 1879 in the architecture office of Carl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli . He later worked temporarily with the Danish architect Aage von Kauffmann (1852-1922) and with the architect Franz von Hoven . In 1903 he and Franz von Hoven received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
He is buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main. His grave is a listed building .
Buildings and designs
- 1886: Villa Varrentrapp in Frankfurt (together with Aage von Kauffmann , under monument protection)
- 1887–1889: Villa Kissel in Frankfurt (together with Aage von Kauffmann, under monument protection)
- 1890–1891: Villa Pflugensberg in Eisenach , Dr.-Moritz-Mitzenheim-Straße 2a (together with Aage von Kauffmann)
- 1893: Luther Church in Frankfurt
- 1893–1894: Country house of the Guaita family
- 1894: Villa for Walther vom Rath in Frankfurt
- 1894: Apartment building Untermainkai 29/30 in Frankfurt (together with Aage von Kauffmann, under monument protection)
- 1897–1898: Residence for director J. Stroof in Frankfurt
- 1898: Own house (" Villa Neher ") in Frankfurt am Main, Untermainkai 64 / Wieshüttenstraße 1 (preserved, in the typical forms of neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance )
- 1900–1908: Extension of the town hall (called "Stadthaus", "Neues Rathaus" or "Bürgersaalbau") in Frankfurt (together with Franz von Hoven )
- 1904–1907: Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt
- 1906: Jügelhaus in Frankfurt am Main, later the main building of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
- Reconstruction of the Palmengarten Hall in Frankfurt
Neher also designed numerous private villas, bank buildings and commercial buildings, but almost all of them were destroyed in the Second World War.
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
Web links
- Entry on Neher in the historical register of architects "archthek"
- Works by Ludwig Neher in the digital collections of the Stuttgart University Library
- Neher, Ludwig Franz Michael. Hessian biography. (As of March 21, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Neher, Ludwig in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument topography Frankfurt 1994
- ↑ Monument topography Frankfurt 1994
- ↑ Dehio Thuringia 1998
- ↑ Monument topography Frankfurt 1994
- ↑ Monument topography Frankfurt 1994
- ↑ Chronik des Westend on frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neher, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neher, Ludwig Franz Michael von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1916 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |