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Hermann Philipp Wilhelm von der Hude (2 June 1830,
in: '' Königlich privilegierte Berlinische Zeitung'', 2 February 1902 In 1855, he took a study trip to Italy. When he returned, he passed the Master Builder examination (1857) and, that same year, won the , awarded by the , with a design for the new Berlin City Hall. This was followed by further trips, to England and France, and his appointment as "Royal Government Builder'. From 1860, he ran his own architectural office, in partnership with . By 1862, he had already resigned from the Civil Service, to devote all of his time to his private practice. He and Hennicke designed residential and commercial buildings, as well as hotels, notably the Kaiserhof (1874) and the , on
Obituary
in the ', 20 June 1908, pp.339/40
Entry on Von der Hude
@ Historismus {{DEFAULTSORT:Hude, Hermann von der 1830 births 1908 deaths Architects from Lübeck 19th-century German architects 20th-century German architects
Hermann Philipp Wilhelm von der Hude (2 June 1830, Lübeck
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– 4 June 1908, Charlottenburg
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) was a German architect, in the Historical
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style.
Life and work
He came from a family ofpewter
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makers; established in Lübeck since the 17th century. After completing his secondary education at the Katharineum
The Katharineum zu Lübeck is a humanistic gymnasium founded 1531 in the Hanseatic city Lübeck, Germany. In 2006 the 475th anniversary of this Latin school was celebrated with several events. The school uses the buildings of a former Franciscan m ...
in 1849, he was apprenticed to Ferdinand von Arnim
Heinrich Ludwig Ferdinand von Arnim (15 September 1814 – 23 March 1866) was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam.
Life
Arnim was born in Trep ...
in Potsdam
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. In 1850, he enrolled at the Bauakademie
The Bauakademie (Building Academy, also known as the ''Schinkelsche Bauakademie'') in Berlin, Germany, was a higher education institution for the art of building to train master builders. Founded on 18 March 1799 by King Frederick William II ...
. While attending, he worked with Friedrich August Stüler
Friedrich August Stüler (28 January 1800 – 18 March 1865) was an influential Prussian architect and builder. His masterpiece is the Neues Museum in Berlin, as well as the dome of the triumphal arch of the main portal of the Berliner Schloss. ...
on his plans for the Berliner Dom
Berlin Cathedral (), also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern) at the Lustgarten on the Museum Island in central Berlin. Having it ...
. When he studies were complete, he received temporary assignments, working on public structures, such as the , as well as managing the construction of residential buildings."Über Hermann von der Hude"in: '' Königlich privilegierte Berlinische Zeitung'', 2 February 1902 In 1855, he took a study trip to Italy. When he returned, he passed the Master Builder examination (1857) and, that same year, won the , awarded by the , with a design for the new Berlin City Hall. This was followed by further trips, to England and France, and his appointment as "Royal Government Builder'. From 1860, he ran his own architectural office, in partnership with . By 1862, he had already resigned from the Civil Service, to devote all of his time to his private practice. He and Hennicke designed residential and commercial buildings, as well as hotels, notably the Kaiserhof (1874) and the , on
Friedrichstraße
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. Their Lessing Theater
The Lessing Theater was a theatre in the Mitte (locality), Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It opened in 1888 and was destroyed in April 1945 in a Bombing of Berlin in World War II, bombing raid; its ruins were demolished after World War II.
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(1887), was the first new theatre built in Berlin since the 1860s. All three buildings were destroyed in World War II
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. The company was dissolved in 1892, and Hennicke died not long after.
On New Year's Eve of 1907, he suffered a stroke, from which he never recovered. He was interred at , in Berlin's Kreuzberg
Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Berlin-Mitte, Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in ...
district.
Work
Von der Hude's work includes: *Kunsthalle Hamburg
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, with Georg Theodor Schirrmacher, Hamburg, 1863–69
* reconstruction, Palais am Festungsgraben, with Georg Heinrich Bürde, Berlin, 1863–64
* Hotel Kaiserhof, with Julius Hennicke, Berlin, 1875 (destroyed 1945)
* Hotel Central, with Hennicke, Berlin, 1880–81 (destroyed 1945)
* reconstruction of the prayer hall at Neue Kirche, Berlin, with Hennicke, according to plans from Johann Wilhelm Schwedler
Johann Wilhelm Schwedler (23 June 1823, Berlin – 9 June 1894, Berlin) was a German civil engineer and civil servant who designed many bridges and public buildings and invented the Schwedler truss and the Schwedler cupola. He is an author of ...
, 1881–82
* Gera Hauptbahnhof
Gera Central Station
on the website of Thuringia Tourism. Retrieved 28 Feb 2014. () is the ...
, with Hennicke, 1881 (disfigured circa 1960)
* Davidsonska Palace, with Swedish architect Magnus Isæus, Stockholm, 1881 (destroyed 1942)
* on the website of Thuringia Tourism. Retrieved 28 Feb 2014. () is the ...
Lessing Theater
The Lessing Theater was a theatre in the Mitte (locality), Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It opened in 1888 and was destroyed in April 1945 in a Bombing of Berlin in World War II, bombing raid; its ruins were demolished after World War II.
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, Berlin, with Hennicke, 1887–88 (destroyed 1945)American Architect and Architecture, May 12, 1894, Volume 44, page 59-60
References
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Obituary
in the ', 20 June 1908, pp.339/40
Entry on Von der Hude
@ Historismus {{DEFAULTSORT:Hude, Hermann von der 1830 births 1908 deaths Architects from Lübeck 19th-century German architects 20th-century German architects