Oskar Pusch (architect)

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Oskar Pusch (born August 23, 1877 in Dresden ; † June 8, 1970 ibid.) Was a German architect and Saxon building official , as well as a local researcher and author .

Life

Pusch was born as the third son of a court official (silver servant) at the Dresden royal court. He attended the Annen-Realgymnasium in his hometown and passed his school-leaving exam here in 1897. Then followed a study of architecture at the Technical University of Dresden a . a. at Cornelius Gurlitt and Paul Wallot .

After completing his studies and passing the 2nd state examination for building construction in 1900 as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration), he went to Munich in 1902, after having passed the 1st state examination with distinction in the spring, where he worked for various until 1908 Architects such as Hans Grässel , Max Ostenrieder and Karl Bertsch worked. This was followed by a job as a freelance architect in Munich until 1912. From 1913 to 1924 he was in the Saxon civil service and was initially an employee of the head of the Saxon building administration, Edmund Waldow . In 1913, Pusch and Oskar Kramer won first prize in a competition to build a new gallery of modern paintings in Dresden. The following construction work on the old gallery building was stopped in 1916. At the beginning of 1914 he took over the planning of the new building for the German library in Leipzig and was also involved in the execution and in all technical and artistic questions. The German Library was inaugurated on September 2, 1916.

Pusch then worked as a building officer. He also designed other industrial buildings, hotels and cinemas and in the mid-1930s took over the construction management of the first expansion of the German library.

In the 1920s and 1930s Pusch worked as an appraiser for the Saxon Homeland Security Association and issued statements on building applications submitted, sometimes even counter-drafts, on their behalf.

In his free time, Pusch was an enthusiastic mountaineer and local researcher. As a mountaineer, in the years before the First World War, he carried out various first ascents of climbing trails in the climbing area of ​​Saxon Switzerland , especially in Kleiner Zschand . This includes the Puschweg (1902) on the Kampfturm in the area of ​​the Großer Zschand , which is named after him today . In 1918 Pusch worked as a consultant in the design of the memorial for the mountaineers who fell in World War I on the Hohe Liebe (401 m) near Ostrau ( Saxon Switzerland ). He made particular efforts to historical research and preservation of the Dresdner Heide , which is why the Puschquelle was named after him.

After his death, Pusch was buried in Schellerhau in the Eastern Ore Mountains, and his estate went to the Saxon State Archives in Dresden.

Buildings and designs

Fonts

  • The Deutsche Bücherei after the first decade of its existence. German Library, Leipzig 1925.
  • The Dresdner Heide and its surroundings. Heinrich Verlag, Dresden 1932 ( slub-dresden.de ).

literature

  • Push, Oskar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 467 .
  • Bernd Hofmann: In Memoriam Oskar Pusch (1877–1970). In: Bulletin 6 of the Saxon Switzerland AK in the Saxon Homeland Security Association. Pirna 2008, p. 5 f.
  • Susanne Schottke: The German library in Leipzig and its architect Oskar Pusch. Unpublished master's thesis, Institute for Art History of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the Royal Saxon Technical University of Dresden for the academic year 1899/1900 . BG Teubner, Dresden 1900, p. 20 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Report on the Royal Saxon Technical University in Dresden for the academic year 1901/1902 . BG Teubner, Dresden 1902, p. 17 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Alfred Langer: Artistic beauty and perfect functionality: architecture and artistic decoration of the German library. Leipzig, Deutsche Bücherei, 1986, p. 9 f.
  4. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, City of Radebeul (ed.): City of Radebeul (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Saxony. ) SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, p. 32, p. 251, p. 261.
  5. ^ Sandstone climbing database (accessed October 3, 2011).
  6. ^ New building of the German library in Leipzig . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 34th year, no. 44 . Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin June 2, 1915, p. 285–286 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Push, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Saxon building officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1970
Place of death Dresden