Wilhelm Lotz

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Wilhelm Lotz (born November 26, 1829 in Kassel , † July 27, 1879 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect and art historian .

Lotz worked as an architect, became popular through his art topography in Germany , edited Hessian art monuments inventories and in 1872 received a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Wilhelm Lotz was born in Kassel in 1829 as the second son of the government councilor Philipp Friedrich Karl Lotz (1784–1863) and moved to Hanau in 1835 with his family and his older brother Franz Georg Heinrich Lotz . Here Lotz attended grammar school from 1841 to 1846, at the same time received drawing lessons at the art academy and showed an inclination for landscape drawings based on nature. From 1846 to 1848 he attended the higher trade school Kassel in Kassel. Studying mathematics and natural sciences, especially chemistry, took him to Marburg from 1848 to 1850, then to Berlin for a year. After he had passed the secondary school teacher examination in Kassel in 1851, he worked for a year on a trial basis as a teacher at the Higher Trade School in Kassel, but also attended the lessons of his colleague Georg Gottlob Ungewitter at the same school . Nevertheless, he initially followed his inclination to chemistry, went to Heidelberg University to study chemistry in the fall of 1852, became an assistant in the laboratory of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in 1853 , whom he knew as a colleague from the Kassel trade school, and was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. Ailments that were unknown to him and the medical advice not to work in chemical laboratories allowed him to become a teacher at a trade school again from 1856 to 1857, this time in Bremen, whereupon he specialized in building science / architecture at the higher trade school in Kassel from 1857 to 1862 Ungewitter, studied, who instructed him in the design of buildings and for whose office he made several designs and drawings from 1862 to 1863, a. a. for Kassel to the house at Bahnhofstrasse 22 (today Werner-Hilpert-Strasse).

A publication that is particularly valued today in research on art history is Lotz's “Statistics of German Art”, on which he has probably worked since 1857 and which appeared in two volumes in 1862 and 1863. In his obituary for the Deutsche Bauzeitung, the positive verdict was: The two-volume work "is admirable because of the great diligence with which he has compiled a colossal amount of mostly reliable news in a clear manner, is an indispensable reference book for everyone who deals with the history of art Occupy the Middle Ages and quickly made the name of its author popular. "( Deutsche Bauzeitung (today db deutsche bauzeitung ), 1879, No. 81. see Rudolf Bergau:  Lotz, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 287 f.) In addition, Lotz published smaller, little-known essays.

In 1863 and 1864 he was a construction manager for the Hanover-based architect Adelbert Theodor Hotzen during the reconstruction of the collegiate church St. Materniani et St. Nicolai in Bücken , which was carried out from 1863 to 1867, and then became an employee of the Marburg University Library , where he promptly received the contract He received drafts for a new high school building, which he then also built from 1865 to 1867 and also managed minor construction projects. In the following years he edited together with Prof. Heinrich von Dehn-Rotfelser the inventory of the "monuments in the administrative district of Cassel" published in 1870, then together with Friedrich Schneider from 1873 to 1876 the inventory of the "architectural monuments in the Wiesbaden administrative district" published in 1880.

Meanwhile, he pursued his career as an architect by passing his examination as a Prussian master builder in 1871 and being appointed professor of architecture and secretary at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1872, where he found an appropriate and satisfying job. In August 1872 he married a daughter of the senior medical adviser Dr. Swiss chard from Kassel. One of his youngest students at the academy between 1876 and 1878 was the future architect Hermann vom Endt .

However, he only worked for a short period at the Düsseldorf Academy, because on July 27, 1879, he suddenly died in Düsseldorf. At that time he had been working for years on a new edition of his “Statistics of German Art”, which was to appear in four volumes, based on supplements. In 1880 the architect Adolf Schill took over the "construction class" at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Fonts

  • Chemical investigations on the tungstate salts . Diss. Phil. Marburg, 1854.
  • The Walkenried Abbey. With copper engravings and woodcuts . In: (by Quast and Otte): Journal for Christian Archeology and Art, II, 1858, pp. 193–204 and pl. 13.
  • Master Heinrich von Hesserode. Contribution to Hessian art history . In: Anzeiger für Kunde der Deutschen Vorzeit, 1858, Sp. 371ff.
  • The collegiate church of Hersfeld. With a blackboard illustrations . In: Correspondence sheet of the General Association of German History Associations, VI (1858), p. 115ff.
  • About the two-aisled churches . In: Correspondence sheet of the Gesamt-Verein der deutschen Geschichts-Vereine, VII (1859), p. 37ff.
  • Art topography of Germany. Statistics of German art of the Middle Ages and the 16th century with special information on literature . 2 vol., Cassel, Fischer, 1862–1863 (1st ed.), 2nd vol .: 1867 (2nd ed.).
  • About Gothic architecture, its origin and its significance for our time . In: Christliches Kunstblatt, ed. von Grüneisen, Schnaase, Schnorr, 1868, No. 10–12.
  • Inventory of the architectural monuments in the Kingdom of Prussia. The monuments in the administrative district of Cassel, described using official records and in topographical-alphabetic form. Order . Edited by Heinrich von Dehn-Rotfelser and Wilhelm Lotz, Kassel, Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Kassel, 1870; XVI, 373, 32 p. - Hand copy by Ludwig Bickell  (HStAM inventory M 108 No. 199)
  • The architectural monuments in the Wiesbaden administrative region . Lotz, Wilhelm; Schneider, Friedrich, Berlin; Ernst & Korn; 1880; XV, 567 pp.

literature

  • Rudolf Bergau:  Lotz, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 287 f.
  • Obituary in: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 1879, No. 81.
  • Marburger Stadtschriften: MSS No. 84 - Architecture in Research and Practice Contents

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Lotz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Lotz construction class, October 1876 to August 1877, list of pupils , in the Rhineland department, BR 0004 (Düsseldorf government presidential office), No. 1561 (p. 194)
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Lotz construction class, October 1877 to August 1878, list of pupils , in the Rhineland department, BR 0004 (Düsseldorf government presidential office), No. 1561 (p. 216)
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Lotz construction class, October 1878 to August 1879, list of pupils , in the Rhineland department, BR 0004 (Düsseldorf government presidential office), No. 1561 (p. 241)
personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1879
Place of death Dusseldorf