Rudolf Schilling (architect)

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Grave of Rudolf Schilling in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Rudolf Schilling (born June 1, 1859 in Dresden ; † December 19, 1933 there ; full name: Georg Rudolf Schilling ) was a German architect . His main creative phase was in the Dresden architecture firm Schilling & Graebner from 1889 until his death.

Life

Born as the son of the sculptor Johannes Schilling and thus as a member of the western tribe of the noble Schilling family , Rudolf Schilling was initially a pupil of the Kreuzschilling from 1872 . He then studied architecture from 1879 at the Dresden Polytechnic , where he was particularly influenced by Professor Karl Weißbach . Here Schilling also met Julius Graebner , who later became his partner in a joint architecture office. From 1880 his studies were interrupted for a year because of his military service in the Saxon Army , only to be completed in 1883. Schilling then worked temporarily in an architectural office in Munich and from 1884 to 1886 in Berlin with Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann . He then settled as a freelance architect in Dresden, where he was born and studied.

Façade decorations on the Rudolf Schilling Houses in Holbeinstrasse in Dresden

In 1889 he founded the Schilling & Graebner office together with his former fellow student Graebner. Together, mainly in Saxony , they created a large number of churches, administrative buildings, private villas , large residential complexes and other buildings that were initially historicized and then oriented towards Art Nouveau and the reform architecture of early modernism . Schilling had the title of Royal Building Council. After his business partner Julius Wilhelm Graebner died in August 1917, Schilling continued to run the Schilling and Graebner architecture office with his son Erwin Graebner . His own son Otto Schilling, also an architect, died on June 1, 1927, Rudolf Schilling's 68th birthday. Schilling himself died of a stroke in 1933 and is buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Tolkewitz .

Memberships

plant

Christ Church in Strehlen by Schilling & Graebner

Before working with Julius Wilhelm Graebner, Schilling essentially designed two buildings on Pillnitzer Straße in the Pirnaische Vorstadt around 1887 . These are the Schilling Museum of the Dresden City Collections and the home of the Schilling family. Both were destroyed in the bombing of February 13, 1945 and never rebuilt. The other works were created in the Schilling & Graebner office and are noted in the article there.

Fonts

  • Schilling and Graebner, Architects BDA, Dresden. A selection. Buildings from 1918–1928 . Maximilian Maul, Berlin 1928.

literature

  • Ricarda Kube: Schilling and Graebner (1889–1917). The work of a Dresden architectural firm. (2 volumes) Dissertation, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b malcomess.com ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 947 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.malcomess.com
  2. ↑ dresdner-stadtteile.de
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schilling, Georg Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1933
Place of death Dresden