Xaver Henselmann

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Xaver Henselmann (born November 28, 1881 in Laiz , Hohenzollern ; † June 9, 1918 in the Ensisheim field hospital , Alsace ) was a German architect .

Career

Xaver Henselmann was the fourth child of Adalbert Georg Henselmann (1847–1920) and his wife Josepha Henselmann nee Haug (1851–1928). He was baptized a Roman Catholic on the day of his birth in Laiz.

After training as a carpenter, Henselmann passed the Württemberg state examination to become a master builder at the Stuttgart building trade school . As an architect and artistic collaborator, he first worked in architecture offices in Stuttgart and Zurich , then in Dresden with William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne (International Hygiene Exhibition 1911 in Dresden) and with Martin Dülfer ( Duisburg City Theater ).

In 1911, Xaver Henselmann won first prize in the architectural competition for a new secondary school in Jena . His design was purchased in the nationwide architectural competition for the Tietz department store in Cologne . In 1912, the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin awarded the 30-year-old Henselmann the Grand State Prize for Architecture (Rome Prize). At the newly built Villa Massimo he was the first architecture scholarship holder and at the same time the last scholarship holder before the end of the monarchy. From Rome he participated in vain in the controversial competition for the new embassy building of the German Reich in Washington, DC

After returning from Italy Henselmann moved on August 3, 1914 as Landwehrmann in the First World War in the front area of the Rhine plain and the Vosges , where he as a lieutenant on June 9th, 1918 at Hartmannsweilerkopf was seriously injured and died.

The tomb in Laiz, which was made in 1921 by the sculptor Josef Henselmann and which is visibly weathering after almost a hundred years, bears the inscription: I wanted to shape and create - but God let my plans shatter.

Aftermath

The artistic legacy of Xaver Henselmann - with drafts for architectural competitions, sketchbooks, travel sketches and war drawings - was indexed from 2012 to 2014 as a deposit in the Princely Hohenzollern House and Domain Archive in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Sigmaringen State Archive , and has since been in exhibitions and Events shown.

literature

  • Journal of Hohenzollern History (ISSN 0514-8561), Volume 51/52 (2015/2016).
    • Adalbert Kienle: Xaver Henselmann (1881-1918). From carpenter to winner of the Prussian State Prize for Architecture. Pp. 245-268.
    • Christine Dölker: From Sigmaringen to Washington DC Selected architectural competitions by Xaver Henselmann (1881–1918) as reflected in their time. Pp. 269-314.
  • Adalbert Kienle: Everyday life at the front in drawings and watercolors by Xaver Henselmann. In: Greetings from the front. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Kreisgalerie Schloss Meßkirch) Gmeiner-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8392-1721-4 , pp. 92–120.
  • Christopher Schmidberger, Adalbert Kienle, Doris Muth, Edwin Ernst Weber : Greetings from the front. Field postcards and war fates of soldiers of the First World War from Sigmaringendorf. (with watercolors from everyday life at the front in Upper Alsace by Xaver Henselmann) Art and Design in Gmeiner-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-1721-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Germany, Baden, Archdiocese of Freiburg , Catholic Church Books, 1678–1930, FamilySearch ( [1] from January 16, 2019), Xaver Henselmann, November 28, 1881; Baptism, Laiz, Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern, Prussia, Germany, Archbishop's Archives Freiburg (Archbishop's Archives), Germany.
  2. ^ The Villa Massimo scholarship holders from 1913 to 2019 , Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo, accessed on December 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Henselmann, Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Laiz
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1918
Place of death Ensisheim