Otto Grahl
Otto August Gustav Grahl (born December 29, 1839 in Dresden , † November 18, 1875 in Rome ) was a German architect .
Life
Otto Grahl was the second son and altogether the sixth of nine children of the painter August Grahl and the banker's daughter Elisabeth Grahl nee. Oppenheim. Around 1862 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Hermann Nicolai and was one of Nicolai's staff in the successor to Gottfried Semper ( Semper Nicolai School ). He became friends with his classmate Alfred Moritz Hauschild . He also made the acquaintance of Ferdinand Miller and Claudius Schraudolph around 1865 when they were studying in Dresden.
His buildings were based on the model of the Dresden Villa Rosa , which Semper had built for Grahl's maternal grandfather, and on the upper floor of which the Grahl family lived in summer. From 1865 he took over the expansion and expansion plans for an old villa in Loschwitz on Pillnitzer Landstrasse 63, which his father August Grahl had bought as an architect ; implementation was postponed to the end of 1866.
In 1866 during the Prussian-German War Grahl was called up to Berlin as soon as he was mobilized and from there deployed to several theaters of war. During the battle of Königgrätz he was under fire in the forest near Sadowa and returned to Loschwitz unscathed. He also fought as a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and belonged to the siege army of Belfort , here too he got away without injuries.
Otto Grahl was seriously wounded in a suicide attempt in Rome in 1875; the shot had failed. His mother Elisabeth and his sister Alexe Grahl experienced his death when he died in hospital on November 18, 1875 as a result of the injury. Otto Grahl was buried on the Cimitero acattolico near the Cestius pyramid in Rome.
buildings
- 1862: Villa Goethestrasse 5 in Dresden (destroyed in 1945)
- 1869–1870: Villa Parkstrasse 2 in Dresden designed and executed on own account (destroyed in 1945)
literature
- Bernd Curt Kreplin : Grahl, August . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 493 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 , p. 195 ( Google Books ).
- Thomas Wieczorek : The villa district on the Bürgerwiese. In: Heidrun Laudel , Ronald Franke (ed.): Building in Dresden in the 19th and 20th centuries. Self-published by Ronald Franke, Dresden 1991, pp. 25–36.
- Matthias Lehmann: Grahl, Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 60, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22800-1 , p. 166.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1991, p. 195.
- ^ Wieczorek: The villa district on the Bürgerwiese. 1991, pp. 25-36.
- ↑ The residential building Parkstrasse No. 2 . In: Sächsischer Ingenieur- und Architekten-Verein (Ed.): The buildings technical and industrial plants of Dresden . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1878, p. 381–382 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grahl, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grahl, Otto August Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1875 |
| Place of death | Rome |