Hermann Eggert
Hermann Eggert | |
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Born | Georg Peter Hermann Eggert 3 January 1844 |
Died | 12 March 1920 | (aged 76)
Education | Bauakademie Berlin |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards | Prussian Academy of Arts |
Georg Peter Hermann Eggert (3 January 1844 – 12 March 1920) was a German architect. He designed important public buildings such as the
Career
Born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Eggert studied with Heinrich Strack at the Bauakademie in Berlin.
Eggert served as Oberbaurat in the Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten (Ministry of Public Works) of Prussia in Berlin, where he was mostly responsible for church buildings.[3] He participated in the competition for the New Town Hall in Hannover in 1895, won the second competition a year later and was commissioned to build the exterior.[1] From 1898 he worked in his own office in Hannover. He was in conflict about the design of the Prunkräume (Representative Rooms) of the Town Hall with Christian Heinrich Tramm who had designed the Welfenschloss (Welf palace, now the main building of Leibniz University Hannover), As a result, his contract was cancelled in 1909.[2]
Many of Eggert's designs are in the style of
Recognition
Many of Eggert's designs are held at the Museum of Architecture of the
Selected works and designs
- 1869: Competition design for the new Berlin Cathedral (not built)
- 1872–1877: Ernst Moritz Arndt Tower on Rügen
- 1881: Observatory of the Strasbourg University
- 1883–1888: Frankfurt Main Station[1]
- 1884–1889: Palais du Rhin in Strasbourg
- 1898: Hamburg-Altona station (demolished in 1978)
- 1898–1899: Tierärztliche Hochschule(Academy of Veterinary Medicine) in Hannover (destroyed in World War II)
- 1898–1909: New Town Hall in Hannover[1]
- 1899–1902: Annex of the Technical University of Berlin (now Straße des 17. Juni 145)
- 1907: Bismarckturm in Burg bei Magdeburg
Literature
- Spemanns goldenes Buch vom eigenen Heim 1905, No 493.
- Alexander Dorner: 100 Jahre Bauen in Hannover. Zur Jahrhundertfeier der Technischen Hochschule. Hannover 1931, p. 26.
- Christine Kranz-Michaelis: Das Rathaus im Kaiserreich. Kunstpolitische Aspekte einer Bauaufgabe des 19. Jahrhunderts. Kunst, Kultur und Politik im deutschen Kaiserreich}, vol. 4.) Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7861-1339-4, pp. 395–413.
- Wolfgang Steinweg: Das Rathaus in Hannover. Von der Kaiserzeit bis in die Gegenwart. Schlüter, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-87706-287-3, p. 38f
References
- ^ a b c d e f Nüchterlein, Paul. "Eggert, Georg Peter Hermann" (in German). University of Magdeburg. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
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- ^ a b "Georg Peter Hermann Eggert / Architekt, Baumeister, Redakteur, Geheimer Oberbaurat" (in German). Burg. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ^ "Hermann Eggert: Projekte / (im Bestand des Architekturmuseums)" (in German). Museum of Architecture. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
External links
- Hermann Eggert Akademie der Künste