Wilhelm Brurein

Wilhelm Brurein (born October 10, 1878 in Mannheim , † April 8, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Wilhelm Brurein learned masons and masons in Mannheim and Karlsruhe and later studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . Extensive study trips took him to Austria , Italy , Switzerland and North America . He then worked in the architectural offices of August Thiersch and Friedrich Ohmann in Vienna and with Bruno Schmitz in Berlin. In 1904 he went freelance as an architect in Berlin and built mainly residential and commercial buildings. From 1915 to 1923, as a district architect in the Prussian civil service, he led the reconstruction of the city of Lyck in East Prussia, which was destroyed at the beginning of the First World War . He then worked as a freelance architect again and built, among other things, the New Town Hall with residential and commercial buildings in Lyck. From 1926 he lived and worked in Hamburg .

Design by Wilhelm Brurein for the facades of the old town in Bautzen in 1904

His artistic interest was particularly in the monumental forms, which is also reflected in his numerous z. T. award-winning designs are expressed. At the age of 26, he took part in the competition for memorial columns in honor of Bismarck , initiated by the German student body in 1898 . In April 1899, the jury also selected Brurein's design “The Great German” from the 317 submitted works as one of the 10 best works to be awarded a prize. He also took part in competitions for the train stations in Leipzig and Darmstadt (3rd prize), for the Mannheim Festival Hall (2nd prize), for facades in downtown Bautzen (1st prize) and Bremen's old town, for the Technical University Buenos Aires (together with Ernst Rentsch), for hall structures in the zoological garden in Berlin and for the New Royal Opera House in Berlin . Together with the sculptor Hermann Hosaeus , Brurein also took part in the competition for the Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück . Your design with the motto “A Sanctuary” was one of the ten award-winning works that were selected from a total of 379 entries in early 1911.

Drafts for Bremen's old town in 1907

Exhibitions

International building exhibition with side exhibitions Leipzig 1913: (Golden Medal of the City of Leipzig)
Great Berlin art exhibition in 1908

Fonts

Berlin architectural sculpture . In: The art world. German magazine for the fine arts, vol. 2, 1912/13, p. 569-578- ( digitized version )
Reconstruction work in the district of Lyck O.-Pr. With the participation of the state building consultancy. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. 60th year 1926, pp. 489–496 and pp. 505–510.
Thoughts on the coming and going of architecture . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. Journal for National Building Design, 1926, pp. 686–688, 694–696.
Town hall, residential building and commercial building in Elk . In: Bauwelt, 1927, issue 21, pp. 6-8.

literature

Albrecht Haupt : Brurein, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 145 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
F. Paulsen: Wilhelm Brurein. In: Berliner Architekturwelt. 14th year 1911/1912, issue 11 (February 1912), pp. 420–459.
Saur General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 14: Braun Buckett. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1996, pp. 585-586.
Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Jansa, Leipzig 1912.
Walther Killy (Ed.): German biographical encyclopedia. (DBE) Volume 2, Munich 1995, p. 175.

Individual evidence

^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 19th year 1899, No. 41, May 27, 1899, pp. 245–247.
^ Competition of the German student body on Bismarckian columns , accessed on January 20, 2011
↑ bismarcktuerme.de (images of the award-winning designs).
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 31st year 1911, No. 31 (from April 15, 1911), pp. 189–194. (Illustration of the design by Brurein and Hosaeus on p. 192).

personal data
SURNAME	Brurein, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1932
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 19th year 1899, No. 41, May 27, 1899, pp. 245–247.

[2] Competition of the German student body on Bismarckian columns , accessed on January 20, 2011

[3] smarcktuerme.de (images of the award-winning designs).

[4] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 31st year 1911, No. 31 (from April 15, 1911), pp. 189–194. (Illustration of the design by Brurein and Hosaeus on p. 192).