Paul Richter (architect)

Paul Richter (portrait photo by Hermann Walter )

Paul Richter (born March 10, 1859 in Nossen , † April 5, 1944 in Leipzig ) was a German architect and building trade school teacher.

After studying architecture at the Dresden Polytechnic until 1882 (with a degree in the building construction department), Richter worked, among other things, as a draftsman for the art historian Georg Dehio (1850–1932) in Strasbourg . From 1888 to 1923 Richter worked as a teacher for building sciences at the Ducal Building School in Holzminden and later in the same position at the Building Trade School in Leipzig . Richter carried the titles of building officer and professor .

In addition to his professional activity, he dealt intensively with watercolor painting, preferring architecture and landscape motifs. Around 100 larger and smaller pictures still exist today.

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The conversion of the former main post office in Leipzig is part of his work. On an advertising postcard from Paul Richter it says:

“References: Manor house of Kommerzienrat Knauer in Mölkau . Villas for the gentlemen: Factory owner Meisel, Rentier Schleußing, businessman Schäffel etc. Workers' house of the manor owner Hofrat Dr. Ackermann on Gundorf . Factories and over 100 conversions etc. etc. "

Advertising postcard from Paul Richter
Main post office in Leipzig
Watercolor by Paul Richter
Watercolor by Paul Richter

literature

Judge, Paul . 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. 300 .
Judge, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 64 .
For the 75th birthday of a well-known Leipzig architect. In: Leipzig Latest News of March 10, 1934.
Paul Adolf Richter . In: 175 years of architecture from Leipzig . University of Technology, Economics and Culture, Faculty of Construction, Leipzig 2013, OCLC 870636901 , Royal Saxon Building Trade School Leipzig, p. 52 f .

Individual evidence

^ List of students from the Technical Educational Institute (TBA) / Polytechnic School (PS) / Dresden Polytechnic (PT) for the period (1828–) 1836–1887 -R-. TU Dresden, accessed on February 14, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Judge, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nossen
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1944
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] List of students from the Technical Educational Institute (TBA) / Polytechnic School (PS) / Dresden Polytechnic (PT) for the period (1828–) 1836–1887 -R-. TU Dresden, accessed on February 14, 2020 .