Paul Möbius (architect)

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Paul Möbius

Paul Möbius (born March 20, 1866 in Leipzig ; † April 6, 1907 there ; full name: Paul Otto Hermann Möbius ) was a German architect of Art Nouveau and is considered the most important representative of this style in Leipzig.

Life

Paul Möbius was the son of the businessman Carl Ludwig Hermann Möbius and Maria Luise Möbius, née Büchner. He studied from 1882 to 1888 at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts . In 1889 he took up a position at the architects Pfeifer & Handel (later Handel & Franke); In 1899, together with Arthur Starke, he founded his own office in the house he built at Frankfurter Strasse 20, today Jahnallee 14. He remained unmarried and lived with his mother until his early death at the age of 41.

Möbius designed around twenty residential buildings, mostly apartment blocks and villas, as well as a commercial building, exhibition pavilions and a few tombs. He developed his own unmistakable formal language with echoes of a monumental Art Nouveau early on. The decorative shapes of the facades of his buildings are also repeated inside on staircases, stucco decor, doors and fittings, in the spirit of Art Nouveau to create a total work of art. Most of his buildings have been preserved and are under monument protection .

buildings

All of the buildings mentioned here are in Leipzig.

Apartment buildings

  • Apartment building Waldstrasse  4 on Waldplatz, built in the Handel & Franke office with the help of Paul Möbius

  • Apartment building at Tschaikowskistraße 31 in the Waldstraßenviertel based on designs by Paul Möbius

  • Apartment building Merseburger Straße 90 in Lindenau

  • Industriestrasse 49 (1893/1894, collaboration)
  • Waldstrasse 4 (1895/1896, collaboration)
  • Jahnallee 14 (1897/1899)
  • Johannisallee 11 (1899/1900)
  • Hinrichsenstrasse 37 (1899/1900)
  • Kurt-Eisner-Strasse 68 (1900/1901)
  • Tschaikowskistraße 31 (1900/1901)
  • Georg-Schumann-Strasse 124/126 (1901/1903)
  • Markranstädter Strasse 12 (1902/1904)
  • Roßlauer Strasse 10 (1902/1903)
  • Prager Strasse 35 (1903)
  • Stauffenbergstrasse 1 (1903/1904)
  • Eisenacher Strasse 17/19 (1903/1904)
  • Jägerstrasse 2 (1903/1904)
  • Dittrichring 10 (1903/1904)
  • Merseburger Strasse 90 (1904/1905)
  • Härtelstrasse 23 (1905/1906)
  • "Green Oak", Rietschelstrasse 2 / Demmeringstrasse 22 (1906)

Villas

  • House with studio for the painter Walter Queck in Leutzsch, Laurentiusstraße 1 (1901–1902)
  • Villa Buchheim in Leutzsch, Am Lange Felde 7 (1901–1902)
  • Landhaus Loose in Leutzsch, Rathenaustraße 34 (1901–1902)
  • Villa Görke in Leutzsch, Paul-Michael-Strasse 6 (1903–1904)
  • Villa Junghans in Gohlis-Süd, Trufanowstraße 13 (1905–1907, destroyed in the war)
  • Villa Gottschalk in Leutzsch, Baumgarten-Crusius-Straße 10 (1906–1907, heavily modified)

Commercial buildings

  • Substation of the Leipziger Elektrizitätswerke, Magazingasse 3 (1894/1895, cooperation)
  • Wolanke office building, Petersstrasse 9 (1896/1897, destroyed in the war)
  • Exhibition pavilion Nietzschmann / Wommer, Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition Leipzig 1897 (not preserved)
  • Kunstanstalt Grimme & Hempel, Könneritzstrasse 43 (1897/1898)

literature

  • Stefan W. Krieg, Bodo Pientka: Paul Möbius. Art Nouveau in Leipzig. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-03438-0 .
  • Andreas Krase: The houses of Paul Möbius. In: Leipziger Blätter , Issue 13/1988, ISBN 3-363-00387-0 , pp. 8-13.

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personal data
SURNAME Möbius, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möbius, Paul Otto Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Art Nouveau architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1907
Place of death Leipzig