Raymund Brachmann

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Raymund Brachmann (born June 7, 1872 in Leipzig ; † March 6, 1953 in Waldsteinberg ) was a German architect who created some highly regarded buildings of Art Nouveau and reform architecture in Leipzig between 1900 and the First World War .

Life

Raymund Brachmann was the son of a district judge in Leipzig. After the early death of his father, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden .

Brachmann got his first big order, a country house in Waldsteinberg , from a young officer's widow whom he later married.

The businessman Max Haunstein, a relative of Brachmann's wife, commissioned him to design a villa as a wedding present for his wife. The house at Liviastrasse 8 in Leipzig, whose room concept is based on the position of the sun in the course of the day, was designed by Paul Horst-Schulze . It had a drinking fountain in the drawing room, a dining elevator, and a luxurious bathroom. Haunstein, enthusiastic about the result, then made the money available to Brachmann for several residential buildings in Leibnizstrasse.

Brachmann's main work is the very expensive so-called “ fairy tale house ”, executed in valuable materials in 1906/1907, with portraits of Leipzig personalities designed by Johannes Hartmann on the square at the Künstlerhaus (since 1922 Nikischplatz ). On December 4, 1943, this important example of Leipzig Art Nouveau architecture was destroyed.

Brachmann also worked with the renowned Munich United Workshops for Art in Crafts . He was a member of the Association of German Architects and the Leipzig Artists Association . Together with Paul Horst-Schulze , he took part in the 3rd German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden in 1906 on behalf of the Leipzig Artists' Union. As early as 1907, Brachmann became a member of the German Werkbund, which was only founded in the same year .

buildings

Fairy tale house on Nikischplatz

In Leipzig

  • 1901–1904: Villa for the merchant Max Haunstein, Liviastraße 8
  • 1905: House at Leibnizstrasse 23 (destroyed in the war)
  • 1905: House at Leibnizstrasse 25
  • 1905: Residential building at Leibnizstrasse 27 (in GDR times the seat of the district youth doctor)
  • 1906/1907: Märchenhaus, Platz am Künstlerhaus (Nikischplatz since 1922; destroyed in the war)
  • 1907–1909: Reconstruction of the city palace of the fur trader Friedrich Wilhelm Dodel , Leibnizstraße 26/28 (built in 1862 by Otto Klemm, expanded by Heinrich Purfürst ; during GDR times the house of young pioneers " Georg Schwarz ")
  • 1909–1915: Closed row of single-family houses, Windscheidstrasse 28, 30, 32, 34 (severely impaired by later changes and partial demolition of the front buildings)
  • 1911: Villa for the merchant Theodor Hartmann, Windscheidstrasse 22

In other places

  • 1904: Gardener's house with tower and blind framework to the villa built by Gustav Steinert for the merchant Walter Polich in Gautzsch , Mehringstrasse 16
  • 1918: Grove of honor for soldiers killed in World War I at the Püchau cemetery

Fonts

  • The rural workers' house. Construction-ready drafts for farm workers' houses with stables at a price of 3500–5000 marks. (Originated from the competition of the agricultural special exhibition of the International Building Exhibition Leipzig 1913). Publishing house of the Society for Home Culture, Wiesbaden 1913.

literature

  • Bernd Sikora, Peter Franke: The Leipzig Waldstrasse district. Streets, houses and residents. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-361-00673-7 , p. 107.
  • Peter Guth, Bernd Sikora: Art Nouveau and Werkkunst. Architecture around 1900 in Leipzig. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00590-6 , pp. 69–71, p. 89, p. 151.
  • Andreas Höhn: artist friend and builder of the upper middle class. The Werkbund architect Raymund Brachmann. In: Leipziger Blätter . Year 2004, issue 45, pp. 63–65.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Life data and artist association membership according to the Raymund Brachmann data set ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the personal wiki of SLUB Dresden , last accessed on January 29, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de
  2. ^ Guth, Sikora: Art Nouveau and Werkkunst. 2005, p. 89.
  3. ^ Jens Rometsch: The last city palace. Licon AG cleans out Raymund Brachmann's villa and other houses in the Waldstrasse district. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from 9./10. August 2008.
  4. ^ Sikora, Franke: The Leipzig Waldstrasse district. 2012, p. 49 f.
  5. ↑ a b Christoph Kühn, Brunhilde Rothbauer: Monuments in Saxony. City of Leipzig. Volume 1: Southern urban expansion. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany.) Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-345-00628-6 , pp. 396-399.
personal data
SURNAME Brachmann, Raymund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1953
Place of death Waldsteinberg