Wilhelm Cremer (architect)
Wilhelm Albert Cremer (born November 15, 1845 in Cologne , † March 28, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German architect .
Life
Wilhelm Cremer was the son of the tailor Johann Cremer and Anna Sibilla née Rodenkirchen. After the trade school in Cologne, the Cologne city architect Julius Raschdorff trained him from 1862 to 1867 as an employee in his office. In 1867 he passed the master mason examination, a prerequisite for his studies at the Berlin Building Academy, which lasted from 1868 to 1875 . At the same time he studied privately with August Orth .
After completing his studies, he worked as a private architect and as a teacher at the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts , which appointed him professor in 1885. At the school in 1878 he made the acquaintance of Richard Wolffenstein , who also worked there as a teacher , with whom he won the second prize in the competition for the Reichstag in 1882 . In the same year they founded the joint architecture firm Cremer & Wolffenstein . Together they built a large number of commercial buildings, upscale residential buildings and synagogues, but also the Nollendorfplatz high station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin.
Like Richard Wolffenstein, he was a founding member of the Association of Berlin Architects on June 8, 1879 , a spin-off of private architects from the Berlin Architects' Association . From 1883 he also taught at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1907 he was appointed building officer and 1912 secret building officer. From 1898 until his death in 1919, Wilhelm Cremer was a city councilor in Berlin.
Works
Only a few of Wilhelm Cremer's own works are known. The joint works with Richard Wolffenstein can be found under Cremer & Wolffenstein .
- 1881: Competition draft for a Protestant church in Neuwied (not executed)
- 1882: Villa Meissner in Leipzig (with architectural sculpture by Otto Lessing )
literature
- Hans Vollmer : Cremer, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 80 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cremer, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cremer, Wilhelm Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1919 |
| Place of death | Berlin |