Walter Furthmann

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Walter Furthmann (born July 25, 1873 in Hilden ; † January 30, 1945 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect who was best known as the house architect of the Henkel company . With the GeSoLei hall and the Henkel administration building in Düsseldorf-Holthausen , Furthmann designed a building complex that was one of the most important administrative buildings of the 1920s.

Life

Town Hall Hilden (1900; today community center )
Henkel mausoleum, Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf (1906), sculpture by Karl Janssen
Henkel mausoleum, sculpture by Karl Janssen
Town hall in Düsseldorf-Benrath (1907)
Administration building of the Henkel-Werke , Düsseldorf-Holthausen
Dyke system with level tower, Neuwied (1929)

Walter Furthmann was born on July 25, 1873 in Hilden as the seventh child of Friedrich Wilhelm Furthmann (1836–1929) and Emma Emilie Furthmann (1839–1934), the father was a master baker.

Furthmann attended the community school in Hilden and completed an apprenticeship in Düsseldorf from 1890 to 1892. From 1892 to 1894 he studied in Schwerin .

Walter Furthmann first worked in Budapest for a few years in the Binder architectural office, where he took part in a competition to design the Freedom Square. In January 1898 he married the artist Emilia Klára Krahl (1876–1941) in Budapest.

He then settled in Berlin, where he received news from his relatives in Hilden that a new town hall was to be built in Hilden. Furthmann drew attention there with a facade design and received the building contract for the town hall, which was completed in 1900.

After staying in Cologne and Hilden, Furthmann settled in Düsseldorf and in 1902 received an order from the industrialist family Poensgen to build a villa in Noordwijk for Carl Poensgen, which was important for further development . A year later, Furthmann had his first great success in Düsseldorf. In a competition organized by the Beautification Association for the design of the southern end of the trench in Königsallee, he received first prize and the building contract despite great competition. Furthmann continued to take part in competitions for Rhenish town halls, among others in Haan , Wiesdorf and Benrath . Furthmann also emerged victorious from the Benrath competition. As a result, Furthmann not only won the building contract for a representative town hall in the then still independent city, but also made the acquaintance of the detergent manufacturer Fritz Henkel , who was also a member of the Benrath building commission alongside Ernst Poensgen, who was already known for building villas in Noordwijk . As a result, Walter Furthmann was also commissioned to build a mausoleum for the Friedrich Karl Henkel family at the Düsseldorf North Cemetery and then became the works architect of the Henkel-Werke.

As a result, Furthmann designed numerous administrative and factory buildings as well as housing estates for the employees for Henkel in Düsseldorf, Genthin and Pratteln . However, he kept his own architecture office in Düsseldorf and thus had the opportunity to benefit from the building boom at the beginning of the 20th century with private buildings. B. with villas on the Meliesallee in Benrath, which is preferred by Düsseldorf's industrialists. Furthmann was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB), the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the Düsseldorf Architects and Engineers Association (AIV).

Buildings and designs

literature

  • Ina Bartmann: The Henkel plant in Düsseldorf-Holthausen 1900–1940. An extraordinary entrepreneur and his architect. Wuppertal 2008.
  • Die Kunst , Volume 9, Freie Kunst, Munich 1904, p. 48. (Section Personal and Atelier News )
  • Theo Fühles: The Benrath town hall. In: Building in Benrath. (= Benrath historical, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath eV , issue 8.) Düsseldorf 1989, p. 17 ff.
  • Holger Rescher: Brick architecture of the 1920s in Düsseldorf. Bonn 2001, p. 137 ff.
  • Wolfgang Wennig: The Hilden town hall. Its prehistory and its origin. In: From the recent history of Hildens and its surroundings, Volume I. (= Niederbergische contributions, sources and research on local history Niederbergs , Volume 23.) Hilden 1972, pp. 7–59.

Web links

Commons : Walter Furthmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Buschmann: Fa. Henkel. Factory and building history. From: www.rheinische-industriekultur.de , accessed on September 13, 2013
  2. ^ Holger Rescher: brick architecture of the 1920s in Düsseldorf . Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 2001, p. 137 ( PDF )
  3. ↑ replenishment 16: De Dusseldorf tube and iron mills, Georg Poensgen en Villa Seelhorst: "Villa Seelhorst" expectant in opdracht van Carl Poensgen in 1902 gebouwd door de Duitse architect Walter Furthmann en het stuck met zijn zware Duitse stijl en overweight aandoend Torentje het nabijgelegen Huis ter Zee en Huis ter Duin danig naar de kroon. Georg Poensgen heeft he nog grandchildren jaren van kunnen genieten, dat wel, maar in 1906 stierf hij toch op 30-year old leeftijd. Wat er daarna met Villa Seehorst gebeurde weet ik niet, behalve dan dat het 'koninklijke' gebouw in 1942 become ingehaald door keizerrijk, republiek en nazidom: het become afgebroken by Hitler's troops. (NL) , on hetnoordwijkblog.com, accessed on February 17, 2020
  4. ↑ Edgar Thiesbürger: The mausoleum of the Henkel family. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ina Bartmann: The Henkel factory in Düsseldorf-Holthausen 1900–1940 - an extraordinary entrepreneur and his architect , dissertation 2008, electronic publications from the University of Wuppertal
  6. ↑ Ina Bartmann: The Henkel factory in Düsseldorf-Holthausen 1900–1940. An extraordinary entrepreneur and his architect. Wuppertal 2008, p. 822.
  7. ↑ The competition to obtain designs for a new museum in Altona a. E. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 31, 1897, No. 52 (from June 30, 1897), p. 328.
  8. ^ The new town hall of Hilden. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 36, 1902, No. 81 (from October 8, 1902), p. 517 ff.
  9. ↑ Villa Seelhorst, Noordwijk
  10. ↑ Personal and studio news. In: Die Kunst , 9th Vol. Free Art, Munich 1904, p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Furthmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1945
Place of death Dusseldorf