Oskar Rosendahl

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Oskar Rosendahl , also Oscar Rosendahl , (born December 27, 1876 in Witten ; died April 8, 1941 in Huizen , Netherlands ) was a German architect . He was a victim of the Nazi regime and committed suicide .

Life

Oskar Rosendahl was born as the son of the Düsseldorf coffee wholesaler and coffee roaster owner Josef Rosendahl. The architect Willy (Wilhelm) Rosendahl (* 1881) was his younger brother. After his final exam at the building trade school in Cologne in 1895, he worked in Dortmund for five months . In 1897 and 1898 he made several trips to Belgium, France and Great Britain. From 1898 to 1902 he worked in various architectural offices in Cologne . Between 1902 and 1914 he was one of the most important architects for the Oberkassel district of Düsseldorf on the left bank of the Rhine, with a second address at Barbarossaplatz 2. Until he emigrated to Amsterdam in 1937, he mainly worked in Düsseldorf, but also in Cologne and Amsterdam. From the time in exile only one work is known to date, the rebuilding and renovation of the Lumière cinema with A. Krijgsman in Rotterdam . Probably in view of the bloody suppression of the February strike by the Dutch population and the hopelessness of his situation, he committed suicide in Huizen on April 8, 1941. He was a member of the Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin .

Cinema architecture

Rosendahl was a well-known cinema architect. In 1911 he published the essay in the specialist magazine Der Kinematograph : The cinematograph theater of the modern age, its construction and its architectural development . Since the cinema no longer only attracts the "lower classes", but also a middle-class audience, Rosendahl pleaded for a "dignified, monumental appearance" for "the interior and exterior design of this building". Seating in parallel rows of seats facing the screen, relocating the aisles to the sides, inclining the hall and hanging the screen higher create a clear field of vision and draw attention to watching the films.

Buildings (selection)

Motion picture theater

  • 1910: Residential and commercial building with theater "Lichtspiele Königsallee" in Düsseldorf, Königsallee 38–40
  • 1925: "Kur-Lichtspiele" Bad Oeynhausen, Klosterstrasse 12
  • 1927/1928: "Capitol" cinema for E. Neuhaus in Düsseldorf, Worringer Platz 4 (Kölner Straße 68)
  • 1934/1935: City-Theater in Amsterdam, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 15-19 (with Jan Wils (architect) )
  • 1935/1936: Swinden Theater in Amsterdam, Van Swindenstraat 72-76 (with Jan Wils (architect) )
  • 1939: Conversion and renovation of the "Lumière" cinema in Rotterdam, Coolsingel 83 (with A. Krijgsman)

Department stores

Other structures

  • 1906/1907: Villa for Julius Isaac Berger in Langenfeld, Rheindorfstraße 3
  • 1908: Apartment building in Düsseldorf-Bilk, Witzelstrasse 48
  • 1909/1910: Apartment building in Düsseldorf-Bilk, Ludgerusstraße 5
  • 1909/1910: Apartment building in Düsseldorf-Bilk, Ludgerusstraße 7
  • 1909/1910: Group of multi-family houses in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt, Gustav-Poensgen-Strasse 5–15

Buildings in Oberkassel, today a listed building

Townhouses

  • 1911–1914: Row houses at Siegfriedstrasse 5–23

Residential and commercial buildings

  • 1903: Dominikanerstraße 2
  • 1904: Dominikanerstraße 12 / Cheruskerstraße
  • 1904/1905: Barbarossaplatz 4 / Dominikanerstraße
  • 1906/1907: Dominikanerstraße 5
  • 1906/1907: Dominikanerstraße 7

Apartment buildings

  • 1904/1905: Düsseldorfer Straße 6, for Peter Grohmann
  • 1905: Steffenstrasse 33
  • 1905/1906: Düsseldorfer Strasse 12
  • 1906: Dominikanerstraße 10
  • 1906: Columbusstraße 11, for Fritz Peckhaus
  • 1906: Düsseldorfer Straße 10, for Peter Grohmann
  • 1909: Düsseldorfer Strasse 14
  • 1909: Düsseldorfer Strasse 16 / Markgrafenstrasse

City villa

  • 1905: Villa Lauf , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 10

Single family homes

  • 1907/1908: Glücksburg Strasse 3
  • 1908/1909: Brend'amourstrasse 78
  • 1908/1909: Brend'amourstrasse 80
  • 1908/1910: Brend'amourstrasse 76

Fonts

  • The cinematograph theater of the modern age, its construction and its architectural development . In: Der Kinematograph , Organ for the entire art of projection , March 4, 1911, No. 219, pp. 10–12.

literature

  • Baugewerks-Zeitung , 40th year 1908, p. 621 f.
  • 50 years of the State Building Trade School in Cologne 1879–1929. Cologne 1929, p. 18.
  • Daniel Fritsch: Georg Simmel in the cinema. The Sociology of Early Film and the Adventure of Modernity. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1315-5 , p. 55 ff. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Oskar Rosendahl. In: Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 348-353.

Web links

Commons : Buildings by Oscar Rosendahl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neustraße 25, Rosendahl, Josef, Kafeehandl. and distillery, E. (= owner) , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1887
  2. ^ Civil status of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf: March 15, Wilhelm, p. Merchant Josef Rosendahl, Neustr. , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt, No. 90, April 4, 1881
  3. ^ Rosendahl, Oscar, architect, Ellerstr. 115, Obercassel, Barbarossaplatz 2 , in the address book for the city of Düsseldorf, Part 5, 1905, p. 60
  4. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 348 f.
  5. ^ Myra Warhaftig : German Jewish architects before and after 1933. The lexicon. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-496-01326-6 , p. 413.
  6. ^ Daniel Fritsch: Georg Simmel in the cinema. The Sociology of Early Film and the Adventure of Modernity. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1315-5 , p. 54 ff.
  7. ↑ Wolfram Hagspiel: Oskar Rosendahl. In: Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 350 f.
  8. ^ History , Lichtburg (Düsseldorf)
  9. ↑ Bad Oeynhausen Kurlichtspiele , Kinowiki on filmtheater.square7.ch
  10. ^ Herman van Bergeijk: Jan Wils: de stijl en verder. Uitg. 010, Rotterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-6450-567-6 , pp. 100, 187.
  11. ↑ a b Journal of Architecture and Engineering , 54th year 1908, p. 117.
  12. ↑ for Jos. Lauf, Holzhandlung, owner (E.) Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 10 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1910, p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Rosendahl, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosendahl, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1941
Place of death Huizen , Netherlands