Julius Wilhelm Graebner (11 January 1858 - July 25, 1917) was a German architect. He had his main creative phase in the Dresden architecture firm

Schilling & Graebner Schilling & Graebner (or Gräbner) was an architecture firm based in Dresden, Germany, founded by the architects Rudolf Schilling (1859–1933) and Julius Graebner (1858–1917) in 1889. The firm was under their direction from 1889 until Graebner ...

in the three decades from 1889 until his death.

Life and work

Born in

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, he was the son of an undressed hosiery and first attended high school in

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. Between 1876 and 1879 he then began studying architecture at the

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there, which he had to interrupt due to military service and continued in Dresden at the Polytechnic in 1880 . There he met

Rudolf Schilling Georg Rudolf Schilling (June 1, 1859 - December 19, 1933) was a German architect. He was associated with the Dresden architecture firm Schilling & Graebner. Early life Born as a son of the sculptor Johannes Schilling. He studied architecture at t ...

, 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,

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and

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was influenced, he went to Berlin in 1883 . There he worked in the offices of and

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, and Hans Grisebach and worked on various smaller projects. Back in Dresden, he teamed up with his former classmates Schilling in 1889 the office

. Together, they created primarily in

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a variety initially historical buildings, then at the

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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

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, for whom he also designed a villa in

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. Julius Wilhelm Graebner died in 1917 during a business trip in what is now

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to typhoid. His son Erwin Graebner, after returning from the front of the First World War in October 1918, continued the architecture firm

together with Schilling. Julius Graebner was buried at the Melaten cemetery in

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Major works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graebner, Julius 1858 births 1917 deaths 19th-century German architects People from the Grand Duchy of Baden Art Nouveau architects