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Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo (10 November 1872,
Breslau – 11 April 1947,
Munich
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) was a German
city planner
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,
architect
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and
painter.
Early life and education
His father, Emil Beblo, was a secondary school teacher. Fritz was a class comrade of actor
Friedrich Kayssler
Friedrich Martin Adalbert Kayssler, also spelled Kayßler (7 April 1874 – 30 April 1945), was a German theatre and film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1913 and 1945.
Biography
Kayssler was born in Neurode in the Silesia Province o ...
and author and poet
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin ...
at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau, where his father also taught. Fritz got his lifelong love of
music
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from his father. His mother took particular care of Christian Morgenstern when he and her son became acquainted with each other. After leaving secondary school in 1883, Beblo first attended the ''Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg'' in
Berlin
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. Here, he lived in close contact with his school friends Kayssler and Morgenstern. The three of them founded a
cabaret
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and the regulars' table, ''Der Galgenberg'' (Gallows Hill). As one of the "gallows brothers", Beblo got the nickname of ''Stumme Hannes'' (Silent Hannes). (One of Morgenstern's best-known works is a collection of poems called ''Galgenlieder'' or "Gallows Songs".) Like the future actor, Friedrich Kayssler, Beblo maintained lifelong contact with his school friend from Breslau, Morgenstern.
In 1896, Beblo continued his studies at the ''Technischen Hochschule
Karlsruhe
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'' with Professor
Carl Schäfer, a renowned architect. His friendship with the painter
Adolf Erbslöh is from this period. After finishing his studies in architecture, Beblo first went to the fortress
Festung Ehrenbreitstein
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Occupying the position of an ...
near
Koblenz as the royal
Prussia
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n site manager and then to
Traben-Trarbach
Traben-Trarbach on the Middle Moselle is a town in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and a state-recognized climatic spa (''Luftkurort''). The city lies in the ...
on the
Moselle River
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. There he participated in building the Moselle Bridge. After passing the examination for ''Baumeister'' (master builder) in 1902, he took over supervision of the building site for the new secondary school in Traben-Trarbach and built an adult education center (''Volkshochschule'') according to his own designs.
1903–1919 in Strasbourg
Fritz Beblo began as a city building inspector in
Strasbourg, which had belonged to the state of Elsass-Lothringen (''
Alsace-Lorraine'') in the German Empire since 1871. At the beginning of the 20th century, Strasbourg was also in the midst of a lot of building activity (the ''
Neustadt''). In 1910, Fritz Beblo was named head of the building department and building control office (''Baurat'', building officer). He received support for his plans from
Rudolf Schwander
Rudolf Schwander (23 December 1868 – 25 December 1950) was a German politician and social reformer. He was, among other things, the Mayor of Strasbourg and High Commissioner of Hesse-Nassau.
Life
Born in Alsace, Rudolf Schwander was the ...
, the mayor. Beblo's name is especially connected with the Musau-Schule (1904–1906), the Thomasschule (1905–1907), the Neufeldschule (1907–1909, today the ''Collège
Louise Weiss
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* Louise (given name)
Arts Songs
* "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005
* "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984
* "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013
* "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929
*"Louise", by Clan of ...
''), the Haushaltsschule beside the
Magdalenenkirche (1909–1910), the Magdalenenkirche, the ''Grande Percée'' (''Neue Straße'') and the swimming pool and thermal baths ''Bains Municipaux'' (1905–1910). This
art nouveau style bath is considered one of his finest works and is protected as a historical monument. The last work of Beblo in Strasbourg that is worth mentioning is the grounds of the ''Nordfriedhof'' (Northern Cemetery). He was not able to complete this work, having to leave the city of Strasbourg after the end of the
First World War
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, since he was a German official and the city had become French again.
1919–1936 in Munich
Beblo received offers from
Aachen,
Bonn
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and
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
. He decided to go to Munich, where he expected large tasks as the city building officer. Above all, he erected multi-floor apartment buildings at the beginning of his work there to lessen the need for apartments. In the following years, he produced plans for general building guidelines and land utilization, which went far beyond the existing city limits, and a plan for green space in 1926. Beblo was co-responsible for drawing up the Dante Stadium, for the popular family swimming pool ''Maria Einsiedel'', and for the ''Technische Rathaus'' (Technical City Hall). In 1934, Munich got great importance as a center for transportation. The extension of the
autobahn
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entrance at
Ramersdorf
Ramersdorf-Perlach is a borough of Munich. It is located south-east of the city center and is the most populous of Munich's boroughs with a population of about 116,000. It consists of the five districts Ramersdorf, Balanstraße West, Altperlach, ...
and the ''Ludwigsbrücke'' (Ludwig's Bridge) are some of the last great tasks of Beblo before his retirement. After 1936, Beblo lived quite withdrawn in his house in Munich-Giesing. He died at the age of 74 and was buried in the ''Friedhof am Perlacher Forst'' (Cemetery at the Perlach Forest), which he himself had been involved in planning. For his special services to the city of Munich, a street in Munich-Bogenhausen was named after him in 1955.
Family
In 1902 Beblo married Melanie Luise Knoch, whom he had met in Karlsruhe. He and his wife had three children. Beblo's daughter, Anne (who was an author of children's books) married Christian Kayssler, the son of his friend, Friedrich Kayssler. Both of his sons became architects, like their father. Fritz Beblo was an illustrator of several children's books by Morgenstern, as well as books by his daughter, Anne Kayssler-Beblo.
Books
''All books are in German.''
* ''Alemannische und fränkische Elemente des Straßburger Bürgerhauses'', in: Elsaß-Lothringen Yearbook 3, 1924, pp. 92–104
* ''Die Baukunst in Elsaß-Lothringen 1871–1918''. In: ''Das Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen 1871–1918'', Vol. 3, Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Elsaß-Lothringen 1871–1918, Frankfurt am Main 1934, pp. 241–263.
*
Works of Fritz Beblo in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature
* Exhibition catalog ''Bauen auf Tradition, Fritz Beblo 1872–1947'', in the city archive of Munich, 1991
See also
*
List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
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Strasbourg, Bains municipaux
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1872 births
1947 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
20th-century German architects
Architects from Wrocław
People from the Province of Silesia
Art Nouveau architects
People educated at the St. Thomas School, Leipzig