Rudolph Speer

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Rudolph Speer (born March 4, 1849 in Waren / Müritz , † January 16, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Rudolph Speer, son of master carpenter Carl Speer (1819–1856), attended the crafts school in Schwerin , went to Berlin in 1868 and trained there with August Orth , Kayser & von Großheim and Gropius & Schmieden . He worked for the latter from 1873 to 1879. In 1879 he was a founding member of the Association of Berlin Architects . From 1879 he worked as a private master builder and teacher at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum . He taught elementary ornament drawing , geometric drawing and projection theory until 1893. In 1881 he joined the company Schmieden & von Weltzien , from 1883 as co-owner of the company now known as Schmieden, called von Weltzien & Speer , which started in 1888 after Weltziens left , traded as Schmieden & Speer .

buildings

see Gropius, Schmieden and von Weltzien

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 65 .
  • Oleg Peters: Heino Schmieden: Life and Work of the Architect and Builder 1835-1913 . 1st edition. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-169-3 , pp. 100 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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SURNAME Speer, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Waren / Müritz
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1893
Place of death Berlin