Walter Klose (architect)

Walter Klose (born July 6, 1879 in Magdeburg , † July 9, 1973 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect .

Walter Klose worked in Düsseldorf together with Georg Schäfer in the years before the First World War . The architects Klose und Schäfer specialized in department stores and commercial buildings and worked for the Cologne-based department store company Gebr. Alsberg AG , among others .

Klose and Schäfer later separated, while Schäfer continued to appear as an architect of department stores, nothing is known about the work of Walter Klose so far.

plant

(Architectural firm Klose and Schäfer, incomplete)

• 1911–1912: Reconstruction and expansion of the Guttmann department store in Düsseldorf, Grabenstrasse 13/15
• 1911–1912: Alsberg department store (later: Westphalia department store) in Gelsenkirchen , Bahnhofstrasse
• 1911–1912: Weyl department store in Kleve
• 1912: Bittner residential and commercial building in Düsseldorf
• 1912–1913: Dörrenberg department store (later: Karstadt) in ( Remscheid -) Lennep
• 1914–1921: Alsberg department store (later: Kortum department store ) in Bochum , Harmoniestraße

literature

• Eberhard Grunsky: Examples of early department store buildings in the Ruhr area and their great role models. In: Westphalia. History, art and folklore books. 1994.