(b Karlsruhe, 7 Feb 1867; d Karlsruhe, 2 March 1946).
German architect and teacher. He came from a family of building craftsmen established in Karlsruhe and studied there (18834) at the Kunstgewerbeschule, which, under the directorship of Hermann Götz (18481901), had become a focus of progressive tendencies in the applied arts in Germany. After a years military service he moved on to study architecture at the Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, but did not graduate. Feeling little affinity with the doctrinaire Renaissance Revival ideas promoted by his teacher Josef Durm, he was more influenced by study tours in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Scandinavia. In 188892 he lived in Berlin and Aachen, where he worked in leading architectural practices and encountered the emerging stylistic movements of the day.
Hof-Apotheke in Karlsruhe
Museum in Mannheim, Germany
Das Torhaus zur Baischstraße in Karlsruhe
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