Hermann Billing (February 7, 1867,
Karlsruhe
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– March 2, 1946, Karlsruhe) was a German
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
architect and designer.
He attended high school,
Kunstgewerbeschule and architectural college, but completed none of them.
Funded by his wealthy first wife, he started his work by taking part in competitions. He gained reputation for his avantgarde ideas and subsequently contracts for public buildings. After 1920, he was professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe or is an academy of arts in Karlsruhe, in Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany.
History
The Academy was founded in 1854 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, with the landscape painter Johann ...
and the University of Technology.
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart a ...
, 1901
Image:Marktplatz-Bretten.jpg, Melanchthonhaus (Bretten), 1903
Image:Karlsruhe Leopoldstr7cd.jpg, his own house in Karlsruhe, 1905
Image:Kunsthalle_Mannheim_Eingangsportal.jpg, Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1907
Image:Duisburg-Brückentürme der Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke.jpg, Bridge towers in Duisburg, 1907
Image:Hotel Bad Schachen 05.JPG, Hotel Bad Schachen in Lindau
Lindau (, ''Lindau am Bodensee''; ; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Lindou'') is a major Town#Germany, town and Lindau (island), island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital ...
, 1910
Image:Karlsruhe Hauptfriedhof Gefallenendenkmal.jpg, War memorial, 1930
Image:Karlsruhe OPD.jpg, Postal administration in Karlsruhe, 1938
Image:Baischstr 0.jpg, gate house (altered)
Image:Baischstr 1.jpg, Nr. 1
Image:Baischstr 3.jpg, Nr. 3
Image:Baischstr 4.jpg, Nr. 4-6
Image:Baischstr 5.jpg, Nr. 5
References
20th-century German architects
1867 births
1946 deaths
Art Nouveau architects
Architects from Karlsruhe
Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
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