Max Landsberg (architect)
Max Landsberg (born April 20, 1878 in Berlin ; † March 16, 1930 there ) was a German architect .
Life
Max Landsberg was born in Berlin to a long-established Jewish family, his father was the civil engineer Theodor Landsberg .
Max Landsberg studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and at the Technical University Darmstadt , u. a. with Georg Wickop . After completing his studies, he returned to Berlin in 1903 and worked for three years in the studio of the architect Alfred Messel .
As construction manager for Alfred Messel, Max Landsberg was z. B. responsible for the tea house of the Villa Springer in Berlin-Wannsee and for the Villa Rosenberg in Berlin-Grunewald.
From 1906 Max Landsberg worked as a freelance architect in Berlin. He was a member of the Berlin Architects and Engineers Association , the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Werkbund .
In 1919 Max Landsberg married the doctor Hedwig Hamburger (1888–1956). The couple had two sons who later both became scientists and university professors: the chemist Rolf Landsberg (1920–2003) and the physicist Peter Landsberg (1922–2010).
Max Landsberg suffered from epileptic seizures from the age of 17 . He died in one of these in 1930, before he was 52 years old. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .
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Buildings and designs
- 1906: Large house for the art collector Wilhelm Wertheim in Berlin-Dahlem , Messelstrasse 31 (with interior fittings and outbuildings)
- 1909–1910: House for the doctor Fritz Bleichröder in Berlin-Pankow , Breite Straße 33
- 1910: House for the sculptor Alexander Oppler in Berlin-Grunewald, Hagenstrasse 8
- 1913: Competition design for a new town hall in Potsdam (awarded first prize of 8,000 marks)
- Residence for the physician Alfred Blaschko in the villa colony Grunewald
- Residence for the poet Ludwig Fulda in the villa colony of Grunewald
- 1926: House for the publisher Emil Herz
Tombs
- Hereditary funeral of the Winter family in the cemetery on Prenzlauer Allee
- Hereditary funeral of Louis Oppenheim († 1909) in the cemetery of the Jewish community on Schönhauser Allee
- Hereditary funeral of the Herz, Katz and Grau families in the Jewish community cemetery on Schönhauser Allee
- Neumann's hereditary funeral at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee
Fonts
- Alfred Messel †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, 1909, No. 26 (of March 31, 1909), p. 181 f.
- Illuminated advertising in the cityscape . in: Urban planning. Monthly booklets for urban architecture Urban traffic, park and settlement, vol. 22, 1927, pp. 35–37.
literature
- Landsberg, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 106 .
- W. Kurth: Buildings by Max Landsberg in Berlin. In: Modern designs. Year 1921, pp. 161–182.
- Myra Warhaftig : Max Landsberg. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin. 88th year 1992, issue 2 (from April 1992), pp. 18-22. (Years 1992–1995, zlb.de PDF; 10.04 MB).
- Rosemarie Köhler, Ulrich Kratz-Whan: The Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7759-0340-2 , p. 146.
- Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Berlin 2006.
Individual evidence
- ^ Charlotte Hamburger: The family and life of Hans Hamburger, 1891-1953. 64-page typescript , pp. 9-11. (at the Leo Baeck Institute , LBI Archives, LBI Memoir Collection, New York City, access.cjh.org )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landsberg, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1930 |
| Place of death | Berlin |