Richard Hultsch

Richard Hultsch (born May 4, 1869 in Neukirch , Saxony ; † July 4, 1946 ) was a German architect, active in Düsseldorf.

Life

Richard Hultsch, a trained construction technician, settled in Düsseldorf at the end of the 19th century. Married to Margarete, a née Lehmann (* July 24, 1880 in Dresden, † September 12, 1955) since June 7, 1900, he set up an architecture office on Königplatz (today Martin-Luther-Platz) at the beginning of the 20th century , became a member of the Association of German Architects and the Malkasten artists' association , where he was on the board in the mid-1920s. In the 1920s, Hultsch lived in the property at Gartenstrasse 70 in Düsseldorf and at the end of the 1930s in the property at Ehrenstrasse 4, at the corner of Duisburger Strasse, in Pempelfort with his wife Margarete, a fashion illustrator by profession, and their mother-in-law.

Works

• 1902 Conversion of the Mendelssohn House , Schadowstrasse 30, Düsseldorf (dismissed)
• 1903–1904 New Baroque house , Rheinallee 15, Düsseldorf-Heerdt (under monument protection)
• 1905 House at Schadowstrasse 50, Düsseldorf (sold)
• 1905–1906 House Achenbachstrasse 24 for the sculptor Gustav Rutz , Düsseldorf (under monument protection)
• In 1905 the buildings of the Hartoch department store at Bolkerstraße 17/19/21 to Flingerstraße 20 and with access to Marktstraße 2 were converted into "a large department store complex with a through connection between Bolkerstraße and Flingerstraße", one of the "first shopping arcades in Düsseldorf", based on a design by the architect Hultsch. . Richard Hultsch designed the Art Nouveau facade and the glass passage. In 1932 the department store went bankrupt, but the building remained standing until, like many buildings in the neighborhood, it was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943. Today Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse is located here.
• 1906 Kleiner Ibach-Saal in the Ibach-Haus at Schadowstrasse 52 at the corner of Bleichstrasse 23, Düsseldorf (exited)
• In 1909 the “legendary chamber music hall”, the so-called Ibach hall , was built according to Hultsch's plans and became “ the chamber music center of the city”. (departed)

photos

• Interior design based on Hultsch's designs.
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  Small Ibach hall

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  Large Ibach hall, view of the podium

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  Ibach House, Great Ibach Hall

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  Ibach-Haus, facade with entrance to the Ibach-Saal in Bleichstr. 23

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  Hartoch department store, floor plan with planned shopping arcade

• Houses and facades based on Hultsch's designs.
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  Mendelssohn House, elevation of the facade

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  Mendelssohn House, facade (photo around 1905)

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  Mendelssohn House, floor plan

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  Rheinallee 15

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  Schadowstrasse 50

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  Achenbachstrasse 24

Individual evidence

1. ↑ registry office Neukirch, Saxony 123/1946
2. ^ Hultsch, Richard, Bautechniker, Klosterstrasse 47 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1894, p. 162
3. ↑ registry office Dusseldorf North 871/1955
4. ^ Hultsch, Richard, Architekt, Königsplatz 20 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1905, p. 239
5. ↑ List of members in May 1918, p. 46: Richard Hultsch, Königsplatz 20 , in the chronicle of the Düsseldorf Architects and Engineers Association: published to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary July 12, 1918 , L. Schwann Düsseldorf.
6. ↑ inventory list Malkasten Hultsch, Richard (1869–1946)
7. ^ Malkasten Artists' Association, Board of Directors 1926/27 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf ›1927, clubs and associations, p. 44
8. ↑ Gartenstrasse 70, E Hultsch, Rich., Architect , in officially commissioned address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1924, p. 87
9. ^ Ehrenstrasse 4, E Hultsch, Richard Architekt, 1st floor; Hultsch, Margarete, fashion illustrator, 1st floor; Lehmann, Johanna, widow, basement , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1938, p. 109
10. ^ Jörg AE Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf, with garden and ground monuments. Nobel, Essen 2001, p. 254.
11. ↑ Michael Brockerhof: Düsseldorf as it was , Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7700-1277-0 , p. 42, 43.
12. ^ Rolf Hosfeld (Ed.): Düsseldorf Kulturverführer. P. 22.
13. ↑ Jutta Scholl (ed.): The Heinersdorff family: a contribution to the history of music and the musical life of the city of Düsseldorf. Music library of the Düsseldorf city libraries, Düsseldorf 1993, p. 12.

Web link

• Richard Hultsch. In: arch INFORM .