Otto Rieth (architect)

Otto Rieth (born June 9, 1858 in Stuttgart ; † September 10, 1911 there ) was a German architect who was also active as a painter and sculptor .

Career

First Rieth studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart under Christian Friedrich von Leins and Robert von Reinhardt , then with Paul Wallot in Frankfurt am Main, to whom he assisted in the construction of the Berlin Reichstag building from 1883 to 1896. In October 1891, Rieth made a name for himself among architects with the publication of his architectural sketches, a portfolio with a total of 4 volumes of 120 drawings. These met with a great response in the specialist press. After his time at Wallot, Otto Rieth settled in Berlin as a freelance architect . He was best known for his villa buildings in the neo-baroque style and his monumental monument designs. From 1894 he taught at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , from 1897 to 1910 as a professor .

Work (selection)

Buildings and designs

• 

  Galate fountain 1905
  1890: Galate fountain in Stuttgart (with sculptor Paul Stotz )
• 1892–1893: Landhaus Lutz in Berlin-Steglitz , not preserved
• 1896: Design for the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig (2nd prize)
• 1898: Manzel fountain in Stettin (with sculptor Ludwig Manzel )
• 1898–1900: Staudt Palace in Berlin-Tiergarten (with Ludwig Manzel, August Vogel and Wilhelm Widemann ), not preserved
• 1900–1901: Facade for the "Haus Stern" (commercial building of the Graumann & Stern company ) in Berlin-Mitte , Mohrenstrasse 36/37 (heavily modified and expanded)

Publications

• Architecture sketches. 120 hand drawings in autotype. (4 volumes) Georg Siemens publishing house, Berlin 1891.
• Otto Rieth with Max Koch: The act. 100 model studies based on nature photographs in collotype, posed and published according to artistic and scientific criteria , Leipzig 1894.

literature

• Special exhibition Otto Rieth. Drafts, sketches, studies . Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (Ed.), Berlin 1912.

Web links

Commons : Otto Rieth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Otto Rieth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Holdings on Otto Rieth at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
• Landhaus Lutz. bilderbuch-berlin.net
• Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Haus Stern . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Necrologist . In: Art Chronicle . New episode, Volume 23, No. 1 . EA Seemann, Leipzig October 13, 1911 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ): “On September 11, Prof. Otto Rieth died in Stuttgart [...] Rieth was born on June 9, 1858 in Stuttgart, where he was also from First studied 1877-1891 "
2. ↑ Rud. Böck: Otto Rieth . In: Art Chronicle . New series, 3rd year, No. 20 . EA Seemann, Leipzig March 1892, Sp. 342-345 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Rieth, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 345 .
4. ↑ Staff news . In: Art Chronicle . New series, Volume 9, No. 1 . EA Seemann, Leipzig October 14, 1897, Sp. 10 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ): "The teachers at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum in Berlin, architect Otto Rieth and the painter Vital Schmitt, have been given the title 'professor'"
5. ↑ Galate fountain and water season. Retrieved November 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Competitions . In: Adolf Rosenberg, Carl von Lützow (Hrsg.): Kunstchronik. Weekly for arts and crafts. New episode . tape VIII , No. 11, January 14, 1897, p. 170 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
7. ^ Palais Staudt. In: picture index / photo Marburg. Retrieved July 20, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Photo Marburg: Haus Stern (Graumann and Stern business premises). Retrieved November 18, 2019 .