Paul Graef

Paul Graef (born March 7, 1855 in Bromberg ; † February 9, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German architect , building researcher and university professor .

Police service building at Magazinstrasse 3–5 in Berlin-Mitte, 1907–1908 based on a design by Graef

Friedrich Adler (photo by Paul Graef from 1897)

Paul Graef was born the son of the Secret Governing Graef in Bydgoszcz in a strict Prussian family and put the grammar school of his native city, the High School from. From 1875 he studied architecture at the Berlin Bauakademie , which was transferred to the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1879 . On the mediation of his teacher there, Friedrich Adler , he worked with Wilhelm Dörpfeld as an architect on the excavations of Olympia during his studies from 1879–1880 . He passed the site manager examination in 1881. He did his legal clerkship at the city building authority in Barmen . In 1884 he was after passing the second state examination Regierungsbaumeister ( assessor in the public construction) and was in the building Reichstag building by Paul Wallot involved, from 1894 he worked for the district government Potsdam worked, from 1897 to 1921 he headed the Berlin Construction Inspection II. Several public buildings , such as the police station building at Magazinstrasse 3–5 in Berlin-Mitte or the Augustaschule am Kleistpark (1912–1914) were built according to his designs.

Between 1887 and 1904 Graef worked as an assistant to Johann Eduard Jacobsthal at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, in 1904 he completed his habilitation and was there until 1925 as a private lecturer in the design and representation of colored decorations. From 1889 he published the portfolio Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk in which he published the most important buildings of the time with large collotype prints and brief information. Many of the photographs reproduced there came from himself; he was considered an excellent architectural photographer. In 1897 he published the portfolio of Neubauten in North America, one of the first critical studies in German about architecture in the USA; the foreword was written by Karl Hinckeldeyn .

Graef was married to Franziska Adler, his teacher's daughter. He was killed in a traffic accident in 1925.

Fonts

• Triumphal arches. In: August Baumeister (ed.): Monuments of classical antiquity. Volume 3, Munich 1888, pp. 1865 ff.

literature

• Richard Borrmann : Paul Graef †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 45th year 1925, pp. 111–112.
• Theodor Wiegand : Paul Graef. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger , year 1925, column 219–220.
• Berlin photographically. Photography in Berlin 1860–1982. Berlin 1982.
• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 335.
• Michael S. Cullen: The Reichstag. Parliament, monument, symbol. 2nd edition, Berlin 1999, p. 141.

Web links

Commons : Paul Graef  - collection of images, videos and audio files