Julius Wilhelm Graebner (11 January 1858 - July 25, 1917)[1] was a German architect. He had his main creative phase in the Dresden architecture firm Schilling & Graebner in the three decades from 1889 until his death.[2]
Life and work edit
Born in Baden, he was the son of an undressed hosiery and first attended high school in Karlsruhe . Between 1876 and 1879 he then began studying architecture at the technical college there, which he had to interrupt due to military service and continued in Dresden at the Polytechnic in 1880 . There he met Rudolf Schilling , who would later become his partner in a joint architectural office. After completing his training, during which he worked particularly through his professors Josef Durm, Karl Weißbach and Ernst Giese was influenced, he went to Berlin in 1883 . There he worked in the offices of Heinrich Joseph Kayser and Karl von Großheim, and Hans Grisebach and worked on various smaller projects.[3] Back in Dresden, he teamed up with his former classmates Schilling in 1889 the office Schilling & Graebner.[4] Together, they created primarily in Saxony a variety initially historical buildings, then at the Art Nouveau and the reform architecture of the early Modern oriented churches, villas, Town halls and other buildings. Graebner, who was promoted to royal building council in 1909, was closely connected with the city building councilor Hans Erlwein and with Ferdinand Avenarius , for whom he also designed a villa in Blasewitz.
Julius Wilhelm Graebner died in 1917 during a business trip in what is now Istanbul to typhoid. His son Erwin Graebner,[5] after returning from the front of the First World War in October 1918, continued the architecture firm Schilling & Graebner together with Schilling.[4] Julius Graebner was buried at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne.[6]
Major works edit
Available literature edit
- Paul, Schaefer (1928). Schillung und Graebner. Architekten B.D.A. Dresden. Eine Auswahl Bauten (First ed.). Berlin: Maximilian Maul.
- Kube, Richarda (1988). Schilling und Graebner (1889–1917) – Das Werk einer Dresdner Architektenfirma (Vol I and II ed.). Dresden: Dissertation from Technical University of Dresden.
References edit
- ^ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, No. 62 of August 4, 1917, p. 316
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Biografie von Julius Graebner (1858-1917) - Sächsische Biografie | ISGV e.V." saebi.isgv.de.
- ^ "Julius Graebner: Projekte (im Bestand des Architekturmuseums)" (in German). Architectural Museum of the Technical University of Berlin. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
- ^ a b Hans-Holger Malcomeß (2015-02-08). "Die Entwicklung des protestantischen Kirchenbaus der Dresdner Architekturfirma Schilling und Graebner zwischen 1889 und 1917" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF; 947 kB) on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2001-09-30.
- ^ "Architektenregister Graaf – Grazianski | archthek | Ulrich Bücholdt, Bau- und Architekturhistoriker". www.kmkbuecholdt.de. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "Julius Wilhelm Graebner: Grabmal Zedelius | KUNST@SH | Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg" (in German).
