Gottfried Wehling
Felix Gottfried Wehling (4 May 1862 – 19 January 1913) was a German architect.
Gottfried Wehling
Wilhelm Kick (Hrsg.): Moderne Neubauten, 4. Jahrgang, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1902 · Public domain
- Born
- 1862 · Barby.
- Died
- 1913 · Düsseldorf.
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- Germany
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- architect
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- German
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Life
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• Illustration — Gravestone of the Haniel family, Nordfriedhof (Düsseldorf) Born in Barby, Wehling - who had moved from Cologne - was registered in Düsseldorf from 1886. He was married to Guiseppine Borghetti (1857-1929) from Locarno and had six children with his wife. His daughter Angelika Elisabeth (1893-1945) married the eau-de-Cologne manufacturer Johann Maria Carl Farina in 1921. In Düsseldorf, he was involved in the city's "real boom period between 1900 and 1914". and worked for a time in various working groups and law firms, such as "Jacobs and Wehling" (with Hubert Jacobs) and "Wehling und Ludwig" (with Alois Ludwig). Wehling died in Düsseldorf at the age of 50.
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Gottfried Wehling lived from 4 May 1862 to 19 January 1913 and was an architect and art collector. Gottfried Wehling was born on 4 May 1862. Gottfried Wehling died on 19 January 1913.
1886–1896 (in Büro Jacobs & Wehling)
1886–1896 (in Büro Jacobs & Wehling)
• Illustration — Building of the National Insurance Office • Illustration — Building of the National Insurance Office, ground plan In 1886/1887, Wehling built various houses in Cologne together with Hubert Jacobs. From 1888 onwards, the work of Wehling and Jacobs is documented in Düsseldorf, where they worked together until 1896. The office of Jacobs and Wehling is documented in the 1890, 1891 and 1892 editions of the Adressbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf. • 1886/1887: Haus Luxemburger Straße 34 in Cologne (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1886/1887: Haus Von-Werth-Straße 59 / Hansaring 20 in Cologne (Jacobs & Wehling) (abandoned in 1972). • 1888: Haus Grabenstraße 4 für die Firma Gebr. Mangold in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1889: Wettbewerbsentwurf für ein Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal am Drachenfels (Jacobs & Wehling) (1st prize, not implemented). • 1890: Haus Breite Straße 8 for the Düsseldorfer Allgemeine Versicherungsgesellschaft für See-, Fluss- und Landtransport in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1891: Haus Bismarckstraße 106 in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1892: Haus Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 1, Ecke Oststraße in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1892: Haus Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 55 in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1894: Conversion of the Haus u. Privatgalerie Oeder at the Jacobistraße in Düsseldorf in historicist style of the Italian Renaissance (Jacobs & Wehling). The designs were created by "Gottfr. Wehling in close consultation with the builder". • 1895: Haus Elisabethstraße 11 in Düsseldorf. • 1895–1896: Landesversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz (Gebäude), Friedrichstraße / Adersstraße, 1,860 m² built-up area, in the style of "modernised renaissance forms" (Jacobs & Wehling). • 1896: Warenhaus Hartoch, Bolkerstraße 19–21 in Düsseldorf (Jacobs & Wehling). Other works included the creation of remarkable intérieurs in Düsseldorf: • Haus Alleestraße 42. • House Königsallee 13.
1897/1898 (Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf)
1897/1898 (Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf)
From 1897 to 1898, the architect Gottfried Wehling built the Gürtler'sches Geschäftshaus Alleestraße 30 in Düsseldorf with "modernising Renaissance forms [and] remarkable naturalistic ornamentation". In 1898, the "architect Gottfried Wehling" rebuilt the façade of the commercial building of the company C. Fausel, Schadowstraße 34 in Düsseldorf.
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Düsseldorf is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
1900–1903 (Wehling & Ludwig)
1900–1903 (Wehling & Ludwig)
From 1900 onwards, Gottfried Wehling and Alois Ludwig collaborated in Düsseldorf, where they worked together until 1903. But the architects also produced works in Cologne, the most famous being the Villa Bestgen. • 1900: Conversion and extension of the commercial building Schadowstraße 23 of the company Gebrüder Mangold in Düsseldorf, "magnificent example of a modern poster house" (Wehling & Ludwig). • 1900: Geschäftshaus Schadowstraße 52 for the photographer Thomas Lantin (Wehling & Ludwig). • 1901/1902: Construction of the Wehling’sche Geschäftsgruppe Königsallee 9/11, Königsallee 9/11 • 1901/1902: Blumenstraße 7/9 in Düsseldorf (Wehling & Ludwig). • 1903: Construction of a row of small single-family houses in Parkstraße in Düsseldorf, which were to have as many "healthy" rooms as possible at low construction costs (Wehling & Ludwig). • 1903/1904: Villa Bestgen, Theodor-Heuss-Ring 9 in Cologne (Wehling & Ludwig).
1904–1912 (Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf)
1904–1912 (Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf)
Wehling's work as an independent architect and urban planner is documented from 1904 to 1912. • before 1904: Grabmal für Familie Haniel auf dem Düsseldorfer Nordfriedhof (architect G. Wehling). • 1907: Prinz-Georg-Straße 37, 39, 41 (Düsseldorf). • 1912: Competition design "for the urban development of the Frankfurter Wiesen in Leipzig" (not awarded a prize).
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• Illustration — center|Haus Luxemburger Straße 34 in Cologne • Illustration — • Illustration — Haus Schadowstraß 34 in Düsseldorf • Illustration — Haus Schadowstraße 23 in Düsseldorf • Illustration — Villa Bestgen in Cologne • Illustration — Schadowstraße 52 • Illustration — Doppelhaus Blumenstraße 7 und 9 • Illustration — Grave site for the Haniel family • Illustration — Design for the development of the Frankfurter Wiesen in Leipzig, 1912
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Wilhelm Kick (Hrsg.): Moderne Neubauten, 2. Jahrgang, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1898. Kicks Zeitschrift erschien in vier Ausgaben: 1895 (I), 1898(II), 1901(III) und 1902 (IV) - s
Haus Schadowstraße 34, Düsseldorf, 1899 von Architekt Gottfried Wehling aus Düsseldorf, Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts - Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst. Jahrgang 1901; Nr. 66.jpg
Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts - Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst. Jahrgang 1901
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- 1.Jürgen Wiener: Einführung in die Architekturgeschichte Düsseldorfs. In Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architekturführer Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, , and .
- 2.Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, mikroverfilmte Einwohnermeldekartei: Film Nr. 7-4-0-80.0000
- 3.Hiltrud Kier. Die Kölner Neustadt. 194. 1978.
- 4.Adressbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf für das Jahr 1890, 1891 and 1892
- 5.Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland. Schwann. 2. Architektur: II, Profane Bauten und Städtebau. 447. 1980. 3-590-30252-6.
- 6.Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland. Schwann. 2. Architektur: II, Profane Bauten und Städtebau. 447, 536. 1980. 3-590-30252-6.
- 7.(ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 8.Camilla G. Kaul: Friedrich Barbarossa im Kyffhäuser. Bilder eines nationalen Mythos im 19. Jahrhundert (Atlas, Bonner Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, 4/1). Böhlau, Cologne and Weimar 2007, , (google books).
- 9.Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Moderne Neubauten, 2. Jahrgang, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1898, Tafel 97.
- 10.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 11.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 12.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 13.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 14.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 15.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 16.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 17.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, . It was the "earliest example […] in der Altstadt“.
- 18.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, , Abb. 611–614.
- 19.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, , Abb. 615, 616.
- 20.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 21.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 22.Peter Haiko. Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts – Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst; Repräsentativer Querschnitt durch die 14 erschienen Jahrgänge 1901 bis 1914. Ernst Wasmuth. 1989. 3-8030-3039-0.
- 23.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, . Das Haus zeigte eine glasierte Fayencenplattenverkleidung mit figürlichen Darstellungen.
- 24.Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Moderne Neubauten, 4. Jahrgang, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1902, Tafel 82 (with description to the house Schadowstraße 23 in Düsseldorf)
- 25.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, . The house brought the "remarkable attempt to use glass surfaces to clad wall bodies on the exterior front [with] rich colour effects".
- 26.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, . The façades on Blumenstraße also showed "graceful glass inlays" between plaster surfaces.
- 27.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, .
- 28.Hiltrud Kier. Die Kölner Neustadt. 194, Bildnr. 470. 1978.
- 29.Peter Haiko. Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts – Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst; Repräsentativer Querschnitt durch die 14 erschienen Jahrgänge 1901 bis 1914. Ernst Wasmuth Verlag. 1989. 3-8030-3039-0.
- 30.Alexander Kierdorf: Köln. Ein Architekturführer. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1999. In the Register of Architects ( ) Alois Ludwig ( ) and Gottfried Wehling ( ) are listed for the Villa Bestgen (No. 116, ).
- 31.Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf und seine Bauten. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, , Abb. 37.
- 32.Peter Haiko. Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts – Zeitschrift für moderne Baukunst; Repräsentativer Querschnitt durch die 14 erschienen Jahrgänge 1901 bis 1914. Ernst Wasmuth. 1989. 3-8030-3039-0.
- 33.Wettbewerbe, Konkurrenz-Nachrichten, Beiblatt zu den Deutschen Konkurrenzen, Nr. 228 (from 4 April 1912), (Announcement on the competition result, Wehling not named among the award-winning design authors)
- 34.Concorso per l’esposzione del Frankfurter-Wiesen a Lipsia, 1912, Gottfried Wehling, Düsseldorf, DSTB 1912, tav. 51. In Giorgio Piccinato: La costruzione dell’ urbanistica. Germania 1871–1914. Con una antologia di scritti di Reinhard Baumeister, Josef Stübben, Cornelius Gurlitt e , a cura di Donatella Calabi. Officina Edizioni, Rome 1974. Werner Hegemann: Der Städtebau (2 volumes). Wasmuth, Berlin 1912. Josef Stübben: Der Städtebau. Vol. 3. Gebhard, Leipzig 1924.
- 35.Gottfried Wehling, competition project for the Frankfurter-Wiesen Exposition, Leipzig, 1912, Plate 65. In Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co: History of World Architecture. Modern architecture. New York 1979, vol. 2, .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres. Kurzbiographien der Architekten und Baumeister. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland. Schwann. 2. Architektur: II, Profane Bauten und Städtebau. 536. 1980. 3-590-30252-6.
- Hiltrud Kier. Die Kölner Neustadt. 194. 1978.
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