Wilhelm Wagner (architect)

Wilhelm Wagner (born September 2, 1875 in Rudolstadt , † 1953 in Berlin ) was a German architect , municipal construction clerk and technical college teacher who worked in various German cities and regions.

Life

After attending school, Wagner studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Technical University of Munich . He worked - probably during his legal clerkship - in Franz Schwechten's studio in Berlin. He is also said to have been active in the structural engineering deputation in Stettin and the district building inspections in Potsdam and Cologne .

Wagner passed the second state examination in 1903 , but shortly after the subsequent appointment as government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) he temporarily resigned from the Prussian civil service. He got jobs as a teacher at the Herzoglich Braunschweigische Baugewerkschule Holzminden and at the Cologne trade school. After a short job as a university assistant with Johannes Vollmer at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , jobs in the municipal building administrations of Naumburg (Saale) , Gelsenkirchen (1904–1906) and Glogau followed. As a town planning officer in Glogau, he was also a part-time judge in various architectural competitions in Lower Silesia and was awarded the Prussian Crown Order IV class at the end of 1911 or beginning of 1912 .

In 1914 he was appointed director of the 2nd Berlin Craft School , which later became the City School of Arts and Crafts . In this position he was later awarded the title of professor.

In 1930 he was compulsorily retired for unknown reasons , without any other professional activity at a later date.

A collection of Wagner's papers is preserved in the Rudolstadt city archive, which contains personal documents, architectural drawings, city and settlement planning drafts and photos - a total of over 400 documents.

Buildings and designs

• 1903: Competition draft (motto "Wedding Day") for a German artists' home in Rome in the Schinkel competition (awarded 1st prize)
• 1908–1909: Municipal secondary school on König-Friedrich-Platz in Glogau
• 1907–1914: City expansion plans for Glogau (after the removal of the fortifications)
• 1910–1911: District building in Glogau
• 1910–1911: Tomb of the sawmill owner Franz Schlobach in the south cemetery in Leipzig
• around 1912: Design for a corp house for the Alemannia fraternity in Braunschweig
• before 1915: Officer's mess in Glogau
• Completed 1916: Evangelical Church of the Redeemer in Grünberg (after 1945 Kościół pw.Najświętszego Zbawiciela )
• 1923–1928: Wandlitzsee train station and lido in Wandlitz
• 1925–1926: Town hall in Neuenhagen near Berlin (as a combination of administration building and water tower )

In the 1920s, Wagner's buildings were characterized by Expressionism and the New Objectivity , primarily using clinker bricks for the facades; Tooth cuts , zigzag strips , pilaster strips , tracery parapets or crenellated wreaths at the top of the facade were used as design elements .

literature

• Wagner, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 54 .
• Maria-Luise Krohn: Wilhelm Wagner, architect. In: Rudolstadt & the Anniversaries 2003. (Info booklet No. 12 of the city administration of Rudolstadt) Rudolstadt 2003, p. 6 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Wagner, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 54 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Short biography in the inventory description of the Wilhelm Wagner estate at the Rudolstadt City Archives at www.archive-in-thueringen.de (The source for the short biography is to be found in the 2003 publication by Maria-Luise Krohn, cf.Literature. )
3. ↑ Official notices. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume 23, No. 41, May 23, 1903, p. 253, (left column below digital.zlb.de ).
4. ↑ Official notices. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 32nd year, No. 1/2, January 3, 1912, p. 1 (Prussia, left column digital.zlb.de ).
5. ^ Draft for the German Artists' Home in Rome in the Schinkel competition in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
6. ↑ ^{a b} Hanna Nogossek: Approaches. Views of Glogau. Marburg (Lahn) 1997.
7. ↑ The tomb of the sawmill owner Franz Schlobach ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on the Internet pages of the Paul-Benndorf-Gesellschaft zu Leipzig eV on June 26, 2016. 
8. ^ W. Wagner: Modern architecture in Silesia. In: Architectural Review. Year 1913, p. 49 (illustration, House of the Burschenschaft Alemania , digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de , and plate 169 digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
9. ↑ Neuenhagen Town Hall. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on August 9, 2016.
10. ↑ Matthias Noell: The tower Town Hall in Neuenhagen. A functional building between traditional symbolism and current architectural discussion. In: Christina Hübener (Ed.): Prussian administrations and their buildings 1800–1945. (= Individual publications of the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV , Volume 4.) Potsdam 2001, pp. 129–138. ( Text contribution individually online as PDF; 8.98 MB)