Hermann vom Endt (18 July 1861 – 27 September 1939) was a German architect.

Life

Born in Dusseldorf, Endt studied at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...

from 1876 to 1878. Baufach und Baukunst under and became a member of the Malkasten Künstlerverein. After graduating, he first worked in Berlin as an assistant in the studio of the renowned architects Kayser & von Großheim. Later he travelled to Western Europe, Italy and Denmark for further training. Vom Endt planned more than twenty buildings in Düsseldorf's city centre, mainly commercial and administrative buildings. He also built churches and residential buildings. In addition, he was active as a juror in architectural competitions, on the committee of managing architects of the

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. Vom Endt favoured the

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Architectural style and used a

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and

Baroque Revival architecture The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term is used to describe architecture and architectu ...

with a tendency towards monumentality. He thus joined architects such as

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, Josef Kleesattel,

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, Johannes Radke, Traugott von Saltzwedel,

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, Ernst Stahl and Karl Wach, whose buildings shaped the appearance of Düsseldorf's inner city in the age of

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. Endt died in Düsseldorf at the age of 78.

Family

On 28 January 1891, Endt married Elisabeth Custodis. The son made himself known for his lively and ironic caricatures. His son Walter (31 January 1893 - 1982) followed his father's profession and became an architect.

Realisations in Düsseldorf

* 1894-1896: Landesbank of the

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, see Friedrichstraße / Fürstenwall old no. 154 (facade preserved) * around 1897: Schneidersches Geschäftshaus, Wallstraße 29a / Mittelstraße 11 (listed) * 1898: group of houses at Goethestrasse 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 24a (mostly destroyed, few preserved) * 1898-1899: Apollo-Theater,Apollo-Theater Düsseldorf
on Alamy images Königsallee / Adersstraße (demolished in 1966 after several alterations) * 1900-1901: , Graf-Adolf-Straße 47 (heavily altered after war damage) * before 1904: Residential building Ahnfeldstraße 107 (not preserved) * before 1904: Residential building Schäferstraße 10 (preserved with alterations) * before 1904: Residential building Reichsstraße 41-43 (today no. 43, preserved with modifications) * 1904: Residential buildings Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 7, 8 and 15 (listed) * 1904-1905: Residential buildings Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 (listed) * 1904-1905: Building of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK), Kasernenstraße 63 (under preservation order) * 1905-1907: Building of the Oberpostdirektion Düsseldorf * 1906: Interior conversion of the

Opera House An opera house is a theater building used for performances of opera. Like many theaters, it usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, backstage facilities for costumes and building sets, as well as offices for the institut ...

* 1906: Bank building for the A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein, Breite Straße 29 / Bastionstraße (not preserved). * 1905-1909: Commercial building of the ''Düsseldorfer Generalanzeiger'' (called Girardethaus), Königsallee 27 / Trinkausstraße (altered) * 1909-1910: House of the Association of German Ironworkers (today

Stahlinstitut VDEh The Steel Institute VDEh ( German: Stahlinstitut VDEh) is a techno-economic organisation of the German steel industry headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. The institute was founded in 1860 as "Technical association for steelmaking" (''Technischer ...

), Breite Straße 27 * 1909-1911: Office and commercial building ''Hohenzollernhaus'', Königsallee 14/16 / Schadowstraße * 1909-1911: Landeshaus der rheinischen Provinzialverwaltung with villa of the

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(later Villa Horion, seat of the president of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament) * 1910-1911: Residential building for the entrepreneur Max Jagenberg, Wasserstraße 8 in

Düsseldorf-Unterbilk Unterbilk is an urban quarter in Borough 3 (Düsseldorf), Borough 3 of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf. It is the seat of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rheinturm Düsseldorf, Rheinturm tower and, together with th ...

(under preservation order) * 1911-1913: Conversions in the Ständehaus of the

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* 1913-1914: Residential and commercial building, Königsallee 46 (listed building) * 1914: Residential building, Duisburger Straße 44 (under preservation order) * 1914/1915: Dreimädelbrunnen (listed as a historical monument) * 1926-1928: Eulerhof housing estate in

Flingern Flingern is a quarter of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 2 (Düsseldorf), Borough 2. Located northeast of Düsseldorf (proper), it is divided into two ''Stadtteile'' today: Flingern-Nord and Flingern-Süd. While Flingern-Nord has a younger populati ...

, Dorotheenstraße / Lindenstraße / Degerstraße (together with Walter vom Endt and Josef Kleesattel; listed) * 1926: on the

GeSoLei The GeSoLei () was the largest trade fair in Germany during the Weimar Republic. It attracted 7.5 million visitors. The name was constructed from an abbreviation of abbreviations of the German words for public health (Ge), social welfare ( ...

: Exhibition building of the publishing house W. Girardet ( Düsseldorfer Nachrichten) and the "Hirschwald-Bücherhaus" of the Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin (buildings were only intended for the duration of one year). * Provinzial-Feuerversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz, Friedrichstraße 70/74 (departed) Schneidersches Geschäftshaus, Düsseldorf-Altstadt im Jahr 2011.jpg, Schneidersches Geschäftshaus Apollo-Theater Düsseldorf Architekt Hermann vom Endt Düsseldorf, Ansicht Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts - Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst. Jahrgang 1901; Nr. 37.jpg, Apollotheater Düsseldorf Altes AOK-Verwaltungsgebäude an der Kasernenstraße 67 A, Architekt H. vom Endt, Düsseldorf, Quelle Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts – Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst. Jahrgang 1905, Nr. 51.jpg, AOK-Gebäude Düsseldorf, Geschäftshaus für den Girardet-Verlag, Königsallee 27–31, Architekt Hermann vom Endt, Bauzeit von 1905 bis 1909.jpg, Girardethaus Hohenzollernhaus-Düsseldorf.jpg, Hohenzollernhaus Sitz des Landtagspräsidenten NRW.jpg, Villa Horion Haus Wasserstrasse 8 in Duesseldorf-Unterbilk, von Suedosten.jpg, Haus Wasserstraße 8 Haus Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 15, Portal (Düsseldorf-Oberkassel).jpg, Eingangsportal Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 15

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Geschäftshaus des Generalanzeigers (Girardethaus)

Villa Horion

DLDüsseldorf
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Life

Family

Realisations in Düsseldorf

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