Otto Engler
Otto Engler (born December 15, 1861 in Kossabude in West Prussia , † September 23, 1940 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect .
Engler, born near Konitz , completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and studied at the Holzminden building trade school . He settled in Düsseldorf in 1903 and made a name for himself as a department store and department store architect who designed numerous Art Nouveau and neoclassical department store buildings , particularly in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . Around 1906 Engler had a branch office in Dortmund .
Engler was a member of the Düsseldorf Architects and Engineers Association , the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the Düsseldorf artists' association “Malkasten” , where he was on the board in the 1920s.
Work (selection)
- 1904: Althoff department store in Dortmund, Westenhellweg , with 5,000 square meters of retail space. New building after war destruction and demolition in 1962 (today Karstadt)
- around 1906: Hettlage department store (from 1938 Fischer-Hettlage), Westenhellweg, Dortmund (destroyed in the war)
- 1906: Schaurte house in Düsseldorf, Königsallee 51 (facade around 1980 included in a new Deutsche Bank AG building)
- 1906: Sinn department store in Krefeld , Gladbacher Straße 4/6 (demolished in 1983, new building with reconstructed original facades)
- 1906: Design for the Tietz department store in Düsseldorf (together with his younger brother Paul Engler ), the department store was built according to plans by Joseph Maria Olbrich
- 1907: Leibholz department store, later Holstenhaus in Lübeck , Holstenstrasse 25–33 (heavily modified in 1938, demolished in 1965)
- 1907–1908: Convalescent home (today: senior citizens' residence "Waldklinik") in Hösel
- 1908: Furniture store Gebr. Schöndorff Nachf. In Düsseldorf, Flinger Strasse 32 (under monument protection )
- 1908–1909 and 1912: Wronker department store in Frankfurt am Main (destroyed in the war)
- 1909–1910: Steinberg & Grünebaum department store in Paderborn
- 1912: Rüttgers department store in Oberhausen
- 1913–1915: Carsch department store in Düsseldorf (demolished in 1979, new building in 1984 with reconstructed original façades)
- 1926: Part of the residential development on Michaelplatz in Düsseldorf (further components by other Düsseldorf architects)
- 1927–1928: Residential development Karolingerstraße 28–34, Henriettenstraße 5–9 with courtyard house in Düsseldorf-Bilk (listed)
literature
- Engler, Otto . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 554 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- General artist lexicon . Volume 34: Engel – Eschini. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2002.
- Eberhard Grunsky: Otto Engler, business and department store architecture 1904-1914 (= workbooks of the Rhineland State Conservator. Volume 28). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0415-3 .
- Anne Bohnet-Waldraff: The Carsch House in Düsseldorf and the early department store architecture in Germany. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-93613-2 ( book on demand ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Engler, Otto, architect, Hüttenstr. 1, corner of Graf-Adolfstrasse. Branch office: Dortmund, Moltkestrasse 14; Engler, Paul, architect, Fürstenwallstraße 68. in address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1906 , p. 175 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
- ^ Department store Hettlage, Dortmund, Otto Engler, dating 1901/1915, photo archive photo Marburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engler, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kossabude |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1940 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |