Raymund Brachmann
Raymund Brachmann (7 June 1872 – 6 March 1953)[1] was a German architect, who created several highly regarded buildings of Jugendstil and reform architecture in Leipzig between 1900 and the First World War.
Life[]
Born in Leipzig, Brachmann was the son of a Amtsgerichtsrat in Leipzig. After his father's early death, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden.
Brachmann received his first major commission, a country house in
, from a young officer's widow whom he later married.The merchant Max Haunstein, a relative of Brachmann's wife, commissioned him to design a villa as a wedding gift for his wife. The house at Liviastrasse 8 in Leipzig, whose spatial concept was based on the position of the sun in the course of the day, was designed by Paul Horst-Schulze. It had a drinking fountain in the salon, a dumbwaiter and a luxurious bathroom. Enthused by the result, Haunstein subsequently provided Brachmann with the money for several residential buildings in Leibnizstraße.
Brachmann's main work is considered to be the very expensive so-called
, built in 1906/1907 in valuable materials, with portraits of Leipzig personalities designed by at the Platz am Künstlerhaus (since 1922 . On 4 December 1943, this important example of Leipzig's Art Nouveau architecture was destroyed.Brachmann also worked with the renowned Munich Association of German Architects and the Leipziger Künstlerbund.[1] Together with Paul Horst-Schulze, he participated in the 3rd German Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Dresden in 1906 on behalf of the Leipziger Künstlerbund. As early as 1907, Brachmann became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, which had only been founded in the same year.
. He was a member of theBrachmann died in Leipzig at the age of 80.
Realisations[]
In Leipzig[]
- 1901–1904: Villa für den Kaufmann Max Haunstein, Liviastraße 8
- 1905: Wohnhaus Leibnizstraße 23 (war-destroyed)
- 1905: Wohnhaus Leibnizstraße 25[2]
- 1905: Wohnhaus Leibnizstraße 27 (zu DDR-Zeiten Sitz des Kreisjugendarztes)[3]
- 1906/1907: Märchenhaus, Platz am Künstlerhaus (since 1922 Nikischplatz; war-destroyed)
- 1907–1909: Umbau des Stadtpalais des Pelzhändlers , Leibnizstraße 26/28 (erbaut 1862 von Otto Klemm, erweitert von Heinrich Purfürst; zu DDR-Zeiten Haus der Jungen Pioniere )[4]
- 1909–1915: Closed row of detached houses, Windscheidstraße 28, 30, 32, 34 (severely affected by later alterations and partial demolition of the head buildings.)[5]
- 1911: Villa für den Kaufmann Theodor Hartmann, Windscheidstraße 22[5]
In other locations[]
- 1904: Gardener's house with tower and blind truss to the villa of the merchant Walter Polich built by Gustav Steinert in , Mehringstraße 16
- 1918: Cemetery grove of honour for soldiers killed in the First World War Püchau
Publications[]
- Das ländliche Arbeiterwohnhaus. Baureife Entwürfe für Landarbeiterwohnhäuser mit Stall im Preise von 3500–5000 Mark. (Hervorgegangen aus dem Wettbewerbe der Landwirtschaftlichen Sonder-Ausstellung der Internationalen Baufachausstellung Leipzig 1913). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Heimkultur, Wiesbaden 1913.
Further reading[]
- Bernd Sikora, Peter Franke: Das Leipziger Waldstraßenviertel. Straßen, Häuser und Bewohner. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-361-00673-7, p. 107.
- Peter Guth, Bernd Sikora: Jugendstil und Werkkunst. Architektur um 1900 in Leipzig. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00590-6, pp. 69–71, p. 89, p. 151.
- Andreas Höhn: Künstlerfreund und Baumeister des Großbürgertums. Der Werkbund-Architekt Raymund Brachmann. In . Jahrgang 2004, issue 45, pp. 63–65.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lebensdaten und Künstlerbund-Mitgliedschaft nach dem Datensatz Raymund im Personen-Wiki der SLUB Dresden, zuletzt retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ Guth, Sikora: Jugendstil und Werkkunst. 2005, p. 89.
- ^ Jens Rometsch: Das letzte Stadtpalais. Licon AG putzt Villa von Raymund Brachmann und weitere Häuser im Waldstraßenviertel heraus. In Leipziger Volkszeitung vom 9./10. August 2008.
- ^ Sikora, Franke: Das Leipziger Waldstraßenviertel. 2012, pp. 49 f.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Christoph Kühn, Brunhilde Rothbauer: Denkmale in Sachsen. Stadt Leipzig. Vol. 1: Südliche Stadterweiterung. (Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland.) Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-345-00628-6, pp. 396–399.
External links[]
- Literature by and about Raymund Brachmann in the German National Library catalogue
- Art Nouveau architects
- 20th-century German architects
- 1872 births
- 1953 deaths
- Architects from Leipzig