Richard Wolffenstein (architect)
Richard Wolffenstein (born September 7, 1846 in Berlin ; † April 13, 1919 there ) was a German architect of historicism .
Life
Born Richard Wolffenstein, the third son of a Jewish dye works owner who died two years after his birth, attended the Friedrichswerder trade school and graduated from high school in 1864. Between 1864 and 1868 he did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then studied 1868–1871 at the Berlin Building Academy . In addition to his studies, he worked in the architectural offices of Kyllmann & Heyden and von der Hude & Hennicke . After the master builder examination in 1873, he worked for three years under the high-ranking Prussian construction officer Wilhelm Neumann .
In the years 1877–1879 he went on an extensive study trip to Italy , the Netherlands , Great Britain , France and Spain . He married Gabriele Yella Doller, their son Otto was born in 1889, their daughter Valerie in 1891 and their daughter Andrea in 1897. Otto Wolffenstein suffered from a mental illness and was murdered in 1940 as part of the National Socialists' euthanasia program . Andrea and Valerie survived the Nazi era partially underground.
Richard Wolffenstein met Wilhelm Cremer , with whom he founded the architecture office Cremer & Wolffenstein in 1882, through his teaching activities from 1878 to 1896 at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . Their first joint work, the competition project for the Reichstag building , brought them 2nd place. Together they built a large number of commercial buildings, residential buildings and synagogues, but also the Nollendorfplatz high station .
Richard Wolffenstein was a founding member of the Association of Berlin Architects on June 8, 1879 and a board member in 1898. In 1885 he joined the Society of Friends , for whose sociable association Cremer & Wolffenstein built the club house on the property at Potsdamer Strasse 9 in 1885–1887.
In 1907 he was appointed building officer and 1912 secret building officer.
Buildings (selection)
The vast majority of Richard Wolffenstein's works were created within the framework of the Cremer & Wolffenstein architectural office .
- 1873–1877: Construction management for the expansion of the Foreign Office in Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse / Wilhelmplatz
- 1885: Draft for the Imperial Court in Leipzig that was not carried out
- 1905: Grünstraßenbrücke to Fischerinsel in Berlin
- from 1914: facade designs for Berlin's Westhafen
- The stairs of the Bösebrücke
literature
- Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women . Volume 1. AH Payne, Leipzig 1900, p. 342 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert A. Kann (Ed.): Memories of Valerie Wolffenstein taking into account the notes of Andrea Wolffenstein. (= Publication of the International Research Center for Basic Questions in the Sciences Salzburg, New Series , Volume 5.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolffenstein, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1919 |
| Place of death | Berlin |