Paul Michel (architect)

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Paul Michel senior (born December 29, 1877 in Eilenburg , † April 23, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German architect . His work is closely linked to that of Conrad Heidenreich , with whom Michel ran a joint architecture office in Berlin.

Life

Weinhaus Huth

Paul Michel was born in Eilenburg in 1877 as the son of the chemical manufacturer Alfred Michel. He started studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin , where he met Conrad Heidenreich. Michel, who made numerous watercolors and drawings in his hometown during his student days, had the impressionist painter Max Liebermann as his model. He passed the 1st state examination in March 1902 and then completed a legal clerkship as a government building manager . In 1905 he received the Schinkel plaque for his design for a museum for architecture and architectural sculpture in Berlin . In June 1906 Michel passed the 2nd state examination and was appointed government architect on June 12, 1906 .

On August 15, 1906, however, he resigned from the Prussian civil service in order to set up his own business with his college friend Conrad Heidenreich. Heidenreich and Michel settled in Charlottenburg . Michel shifted mainly to the artistic area, whereas Heidenreich was in charge of the commercial management. In 1908 they moved their headquarters to a self-designed residential and commercial building on Kaiserdamm 26. Further residential and commercial buildings followed on Kaiserdamm (1909/1910), the Weinhaus Huth in Potsdamer Strasse (1909/1910), industrial buildings for Benz & Cie . in Berlin and Mannheim (1912), individual buildings in the garden city of Marga (around 1913) as well as churches, schools, manor houses and villas in the province of Brandenburg .

Grave of Paul Michel in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Paul Michel died in Berlin in April 1938 at the age of 60. His grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 16-F-3). Paul Michel's estate is in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin . Most of the remaining buildings in Heidenreich and Michels are now listed .

literature

  • Erika Schachinger: Preliminary catalog raisonné by the architects Conrad Heidenreich and Paul Michel. Berlin 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Erika Schachinger: Conrad Heidenreich and Paul Michel. The architects of the Huth wine house. (see web link)
  2. a b Andreas Flegel: Eilenburg city presentations 16. – 19. Century. Stadt-Bild-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942146-39-5 , p. 29.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . P. 198.