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Paul Pfann (18 April 1860,

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- 1 August 1919, Nuremberg) was a German architect in the

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style. He was also a professor at the

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Life and work

His father was a primary school teacher. From 1879 to 1883, he studied architecture at the

with

Friedrich von Thiersch Friedrich Maximilian Thiersch, after 1897 Ritter von Thiersch (18 April 1852, Marburg – 23 December 1921, Munich), was a German architect and painter in the late Historicist style. Life and work His father, H. W. J. Thiersch, was a prominen ...

and

Paul Wallot Johann Paul Wallot (26 June 1841 Oppenheim am Rhein – 10 August 1912 Bad Schwalbach) was a German architect of Huguenot descent, best known for designing the Reichstag building in Berlin, erected between 1884 and 1894. He also built the adjacen ...

. He would spend most of his career in Munich and often worked in collaboration with . From 1884 to 1887, he also collaborated with the architectural firm of

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, in

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. From 1887 to 1891, he assisted

during the construction of the

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in Berlin. In 1890, he entered a competition to design the

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. From 1891 to 1892, he served as an assistant Professor for

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at the Technical University, and from 1893 was a

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for sketching from nature. From 1900 to 1908 he was "professor without chair" for drawing, decorative architecture and perspective. In 1908, he became a full professor. His most familiar buildings include the (1892-1894) in

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, the headquarters of the French

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(1896-1897) and the east wing of the

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(1909-1916).

Sources

Biography and drawings
@ the

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* Katharina Blohm, ''Architekturschule München 1868-1993: 125 Jahre Technische Universität München'', Klinkhardt + Biermann, 1993
Google Books

External links

@ NordOstKultur München
Catalog of Pfann's estate
@ Kalliope-Verbund

@ the

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Drawings and plans by Pfann
@ the Architecture Museum of the

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Project sketches
@ the library of the Technical University of Munich {{DEFAULTSORT:Pfann, Paul 1860 births 1919 deaths 19th-century German architects Historicist architecture in Germany Architects from Nuremberg Technical University of Munich alumni