Rudolf Tillessen

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Rudolf Tillessen (born March 3, 1857 in Düsseldorf , † December 22, 1926 in Mannheim ) was a German architect .

Career

Tillessen came from a middle-class family and had nine siblings. His father, Johann Wilhelm Tillessen, was a Prussian steward, his mother, Margarete, a native of Hesse-Theis. After the father's numerous transfers, the family moved to Mannheim in 1872. Tillessen studied architecture at the Polytechnic School in Carlsruhe from 1875 to 1879 and then traveled to Italy, France and the Netherlands. He also sat in with local architects.

In 1883/84 he worked briefly both with August Rudolf Opfermann in Mainz and with Wilhelm Manchot in Mannheim. In 1885 he started his own business. Almost nothing is known from the following years. Tillessen, too, was always silent about it. It wasn't until 1895, when he took part in the competition to design the “Wasserturmplatz” ( Friedrichsplatz ) in Mannheim, that more is known. In the first decade of the 20th century in particular, numerous villas were built according to his designs in Mannheim's Oststadt , as well as residential and commercial buildings in the old town.

From 1920 he ran a joint office with the architect Wilhelm W. Hoffmann . In recognition of his life's work, he received an honorary doctorate from his Karlsruhe university shortly before his death .

Works

Corphaus of Suevia Heidelberg, 1905
Villa kitchens, 1913

Buildings and designs

  • 1898: Neo-Gothic group of houses in Lameystraße 6, 8, 10, 12, Mannheim
  • 1899/1900: Bernhardushof, Breite Strasse, Mannheim
  • Row of houses at Lameystrasse 6–12, Mannheim
  • 1907: Villas in Darmstädter, Engelhorn and Reuther, Werderstrasse, Mannheim
  • 1904/1905: Corphaus des Corps Suevia Heidelberg , Am Klingenteich, Heidelberg
  • 1905/06: Villa Würzweiler, Mollstrasse 47
  • 1906: Villa Freudenberg, Weinheim
  • 1906: Weil / Eckhard double villa, Viktoriastraße 26/28, Mannheim
  • 1908/09: Villa Haas, Mannheim, Maximilianstrasse 5
  • 1908/09: Villa Krieger, Maximilianstrasse, Mannheim
  • 1909/10: Elizabeth Duncan Dance School near Darmstadt
  • 1913: Villa Reverchon, Römerstrasse 100, Trier-Pallien
  • 1913: Villa Küchen in Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1922/23: Houses in Medicusstrasse, Mannheim
  • 1924: Houses in Bassermannstrasse, Mannheim
  • 1926: Villa Gisella Lanz, Spinozastraße 7, Mannheim

Fonts

  • The Grand Ducal Palace in Mannheim. Selected interior decorations. Mannheim 1897.
  • The Bretzenheim Palace . In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 1 [1900], pp. 131-134.
  • The Waghäusel Hermitage. Mannheim 1909.
  • Detached houses and villas . In: Lower Rhine district of the Baden Arch. U. Ing.-Verein, Arch. U. Ing.-Verein Mannheim-Ludwigshafen (ed.): Mannheim and its buildings . Mannheim 1906, pp. 305-358.

Private life

In 1890 he married Maria Grütering from Dinslaken . The couple had four sons and two daughters between 1891 and 1897. In 1896 he bought a residential and commercial building in Mannheim at square C 9, 5/6, which he converted and enlarged. In 1902 the family moved into a "half villa" on Lachnerstrasse in Mannheim, where he also relocated his office. He kept this location until 1911. In 1914, two of his sons died in the First World War . During this time, his marriage also ended in divorce. In 1916 he married again: Mathilde Hummel, actress at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . This marriage did not last long. Due to the war and stylistically out of date, it also had little economic success. Numerous moves within Mannheim are documented. After his death he was buried in the main cemetery in Mannheim .

Social Commitment

From 1897 to 1905 Rudolf Tillessen was a city councilor in Mannheim. He was very active in urban club life. From 1904 he was a member of the Mannheimer Kunstverein in changing functions, mostly on the board of directors . He was still involved in the Pfalzgau Arts and Crafts Association . He also headed the Mannheim branch of the Association of German Architects, founded in 1903, and in this capacity organized the Mannheim architecture exhibition in 1909.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Whether it is the same thing that the Lemma Mathilde Hummel covers is not clear.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 300.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 301.
  3. ^ Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 303.
  4. ↑ a b c Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 305.
  5. ^ Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 246.
  6. ^ Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. Pp. 301, 305.
  7. ^ Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 248.
  8. ↑ a b c Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 306.
  9. ^ Werner: Mannheim villas. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town. P. 301 f.
personal data
SURNAME Tillessen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1926
Place of death Mannheim